Title :
Network-based education system designed to allow individual student progress and improve teacher efficiency
Author :
Tamaki, Motonori ; Yamada, Kouichi ; Kuwabara, Tsuneo ; Nakamura, Yoshihiro
Author_Institution :
Access Network Syst. Lab., NTT Corp., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
The objective of the study is to improve teacher efficiency so that large numbers of students can be educated, while at the same time implementing an individual approach to education in which each student´s progress is taken into account. To achieve this objective, we propose an education system for groups of students at a similar stage of learning. With this system, CAI is used to help individual students to learn by themselves and networks are used to constantly monitor their progress. Then students who reach an impasse are grouped according to their learning progress. The teacher can then provide a supplementary lesson for the whole group, thus improving his or her efficiency. Moreover, we undertook an education experiment for 2 teacher subjects and 10 student subjects using the proposed system. The teacher work rate results indicated that a single teacher using this system to teach approximately 20 students can provide efficient supplementary lessons to plateau-status students, even when students diverge from each other in terms of progress
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; computer networks; human factors; interactive systems; teaching; user interfaces; CAI; education experiment; education system; individual student progress; learning progress; network based education system; plateau-status students; student progress; student subjects; supplementary lesson; teacher efficiency; teacher subjects; teacher work rate results; Computer aided instruction; Computer languages; Intelligent systems; Knowledge acquisition; Laboratories; Mathematics; Monitoring; Read only memory; Telegraphy; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Human Interaction, 1998. Proceedings. 3rd Asia Pacific
Conference_Location :
Shonan Village Center
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8347-3
DOI :
10.1109/APCHI.1998.704163