ICT based Learning System of AIITICT based Learning System of AIITfor Professional Education in Japanfor Professional Education in Japan

Shintaro Ishijima, Hiroshi Koyama, Yoshihide Chubachi Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology

andFumio Harashima

Tokyo Metropolitan University

ITHET2010, Cappadocia, Turkey

ContentsContents• AIIT: Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology

Unique Learning System of AIIT Continuous Support for Lifelong Learning

• ICT based learning system for professional education ICT environment, LMS, and Video lectures Learning portfolio SET iPBL and Competencies measuring tool Satellite campus

• Conclusion: Future plan APEN: Asian Professional Education Network Professional Community ICT Cloud platform for professional education

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AAdvanced dvanced IInstitute of nstitute of IIndustrial ndustrial TTechnologyechnology

• A public graduate school located in a downtown of Tokyo Offer Advanced Professional Education mainly to the engineers in

industry founded in 2006 by Public University Corporation of Tokyo Metropolitan Government

• Three Missions of AIIT Provide excellent human resources to the industry in Tokyo Provide the double linear system of the higher education in Tokyo,

academic system and professional system Provide the think tank function for the industrial policy of Tokyo

Metropolitan Government

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Public Universities Corporation of Tokyo Public Universities Corporation of Tokyo

Public University Corporation of Tokyo

Metropolitan Government

Public University Corporation of Tokyo

Metropolitan Government

TMU: Tokyo Metropolitan

University

TMU: Tokyo Metropolitan

University

TMCIT: Tokyo Metropolitan College of

Industrial Technology

TMCIT: Tokyo Metropolitan College of

Industrial Technology

AIIT: Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology

AIIT: Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology

High school levelUndergraduate levelMaster Course of Graduate SchoolDoctoral Course of Graduate School

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Academic course 9 years professional course

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Two Master ProgramsTwo Master Programs• Information Systems Architecture

Network Database Software Development Information Management Project Management Security

• Innovation for Design and Engineering Industrial Design "Monozukuri" (manufacturing) Management Engineering Process Design System Integration and Control

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Students and DegreesStudents and Degrees• Information Systems Architecture

50 students / year 90% from industry Degree:

Master of Technology in Information Systems

• Innovation for Design and Engineering 50 students / year 70% from industry Degree:

Master of Technology in Innovation for Design and Engineering

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Unique Learning System 1/2Unique Learning System 1/2• Academic term: quarter system

Accelerated learning, a lecture is given two times per one week e-Learning Materials and digital libraries

• Most Professors have the long career in Industry Practice knowledge of jobs Understanding the value of the practical knowledge

• Lecture Support System Every lecture is converted to the video e-learning material

simultaneously Students and Professors can review the video lecture at anytime and

anywhere

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Unique Learning System 2/2Unique Learning System 2/2• Assessment of the curriculum by the Advisory Committee

Advisory Committee composed of 17 companies assesses the curriculum annually

Focused on the practical business issues, like project management, business modeling by UML, Taguchi Method and so on.

• Project Based Learning, PBL in cooperation with industry, governments and other organizations Practical knowledge and skill Learn by doing Competency enhancement

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PBL: Project Based LearningPBL: Project Based Learning• Competency Based Education

Competency: Abilities such as Communication, team activity, continuous learning, and so on

Enhancement of Competency is the main purpose of PBL Need for the management of the educational process and need of

quick acquirement system of the knowledge and skill • Compulsory Subject

Collaborative activities to complete a practical project and to enhance their competencies

Total score is evaluated by the project product (50%) and the contribution to the team activities (50%)

Final evaluation is made by at least three professors (frequently the professionals in the industry join the evaluation): high objectivity

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Continuous Support for Lifelong LearningContinuous Support for Lifelong Learning• The professionals always have to refresh their skill and

knowledge Educational services of AIIT have to cover the whole life of the

professional : most students are full member of the society Need of the learning community and supporting learning platform

• AIIT should be the Learning Platform of the Learning Community AIIT is not a terminal school which provides fresh people to the

society as a conventional university AIIT must provide the life-long educational services

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Three Stages of Learning Three Stages of Learning

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KnowledgeSkill

Professionalism

Competency

Community

individualGroup

Educational Services of AIIT: 1st StageEducational Services of AIIT: 1st Stage• 1st stage: learning before the enrollment

Several promotions: special articles on Web, Design Contests, Monthly Forum for ICT and Design

Academic Credit Bank: depositing credits for 5 years Certification Programs besides the degree programs: ICT planning ,

practical security, project management Preparatory school for professional education Importance of the secondary level professional education

• Special courses from junior college TMCIT to AIIT

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Educational Services of AIIT: 2nd StageEducational Services of AIIT: 2nd Stage• 2nd stage: learning as a student : 2 years

Lectures and exercises for acquiring skill and knowledge PBL for enhancing competencies Effective and efficient learning and evaluation supported by:

• Web based Learning Management System• Academic Portfolio• SET: Student Evaluation of Teaching• iPBL: infrastructure for PBL• Satellite campus

APEN: Asian Professional Education Network• Future plan for the global PBL system• Provide the experience of the cross cultural project• Global carrier design

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Educational Services of AIIT: 3rd StageEducational Services of AIIT: 3rd Stage• 3rd stage: learning after graduation

Professional Community • Accumulation of wisdom and professional about ICT• Support of Alumni activity • Support for the career problems, like career change, business promotion,

etc. Knowledge Home Port

• Use of the video lectures freely for 10 years after graduation• Encouragement to evaluate the curriculum • Academic Credit Bank, Certification Programs and Monthly Forum, are

available as a matter of course AIIT Registered Lecturer

• The title of AIIT Registered Lecturer is given after the review by the faculty meeting. By this mechanism, they will be built onto the learning community of AIIT.

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ICT based Learning SystemICT based Learning System• 90% of students are from industry

They work in the daytime on weekdays. After that, they commute to school. They learn in the both classrooms (lectures and exercises) and

projects. The weekday classes begin at 18:30

• We have to provide effective and efficient learning and evaluation environment supported by ICT.

• After 2008, all universities in Japan are obliged to activity to improve the quality of the education.

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ICT EnvironmentICT Environment• E-mail• Groupware (collaborative software)

Message and discussion boards Calendars

• LMS: Web based learning management system Lecture notes Assignments Video Lectures: anytime and anywhere

• Our all lectures are recorded.

• Hi-speed broadband network and wireless local area network

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Video Lectures: OverviewVideo Lectures: Overview

video recorderwmv format

iPod touch, iPhone, PSP, MacOS

podcastanytime, anywhere

converter to mp4 formatabout 30minutes per lecture (90minutes)

Windows

Students

video server

Faculty

video server

classroom:Our all lecturesare recorded.

via the Internet

via the Internet

Digital signage

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RSS Feed

Video Lectures: SnapshotVideo Lectures: Snapshot

List of Subjects Subject

Frequently Used Tags

sign in

search by tags

abstract of the subject

links for videos

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Learning PortfolioLearning Portfolio• Digital learning portfolio:

It is a representative or selective collection / database of student's evidence such as works, scores, and evaluations.

It often amounts to a documentation for a personal résumé.• Purposes:

Assessment (for professors)• It can be used to assess the quality of the student's past or ongoing

performance. Improvement (for student oneself)

• It can help students to improve their learning activities by Design-Publish-Collect-Reflect cycles.

Demonstration of Accomplishments (for community or companies)• It can help students to demonstrate ability to learn the major topics of

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FD: Faculty DevelopmentFD: Faculty Development• After 2008, all universities in Japan are obliged to activity to

improve and to guarantee the quality of the education by law

• The examples of the FD activity: SET: Student evaluation of teaching (about 74%) Organization of the committee for FD (about 72%) Workshop of teaching (about 66%) Mutual class visit between teachers

• Video lectures: anytime and anywhere• Digital signage: always

Mutual evaluation of teaching among teachers SoTL: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

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SET: Student Evaluation of TeachingSET: Student Evaluation of Teaching• Our improvement using ICT

PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Action) cycles of multiple situations• In class: confirmation of the understanding degree of the student• For short term: reflection to the next class• For middle term: confirmation to the level and the content / interest• For long term: reflection to the syllabus• After graduation: reflection to the curriculum

Quick and easy questionnaire• PDA: Personal Digital Assistant, Smartphone, and cellular phone• Web

Report• Collective intelligence• Data visualization

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PDCAPDCA Cycles for ClassesCycles for Classes

Term Reflections or confirmations

In class Confirmation of the understanding degree of the student

For short term(after each class) Reflections for the next class

For middle term Confirmation of the level and the content / interest

For long term(end of quarter) Reflections for the syllabus of the next year

After graduation Reflections for the next curriculum

PlanPlan

Action

Action

Do (class)begin 　　　　　

end

Do (class)begin 　　　　　

end

CheckCheck

Action

（改善）

Action

（改善）

Plan（修正）

Plan（修正）

Check

（評価）

Check

（評価）

PlanPlan

Action

Action

Do （ class ）begin 　　　　　 　

end

Do （ class ）begin 　　　　　 　

end

Check

Check PlanPlan

Action

Action

Check

Check

Is it reflected to the class of current year?Does a PDCA cycle function?

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PDA: Personal Digital AssistantPDA: Personal Digital Assistant

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ReportReport

Advices:It shows good and bad points/scores by comparison with the value of last year and other subjects. For example: - In comparison with the other subjects, "student participation" shows a bad value. - "questions and answers", "syllabus", and "the degree of difficulty" can be still improved.

Result:It shows a score result added up visually, and various graphical charts. Furthermore, the averages of this year and last year are displayed, and the averages of the other subjects which are indicated by tags (for example, all, network, security and management) are displayed. Thus, teachers can understand the present score and the their change easily.

Free comments:Opinions written in the free comments field are enumerated here.

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Map of Tokyo Metropolitan AreaMap of Tokyo Metropolitan Area

Tokyo12.58 million

Chiba6.06 million

Saitama7.05 million

Kanagawa8.79 million

Ibaraki

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Daytime Population in TokyoDaytime Population in Tokyo

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3D Graph of Daytime Population3D Graph of Daytime Population

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3D Graph of Daytime Population3D Graph of Daytime Population

187,000 persons

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AkihabaraAkihabara• Akihabara (Akiba): 1st satellite campus of AIIT

From the main campus, • approximate 10km in the north, and • approximate 40 minutes by rail

It is a good location. • It is located less than five minutes by rail from Tokyo Station, • It is good for the convenience to access from the north (Saitama), south

(Kanagawa), east (Chiba) northeast (Ibaraki) and west (West of Tokyo).

Akihabara, also known as Akihabara electric town• It is a major and famous shopping and office area for electronic,

computer, and animation.

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AIIT (Shinagawa)

Akihabara

Chiba

Tachikawa

Kanagawa (Yokohama)

Saitama (Omiya)

Satellite CampusSatellite Campus

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Distance ClassroomDistance Classroom• Most of lectures are delivered to the satellite campuses.

• Using high quality video streams Our distance classroom aims to deliver lectures to students who are

not physically "on site" and are at our satellite campuses It gives students the vivid feeling of being at live lectures.

• Two-way communications It allows teachers and students to communicate mutually in real time

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Distance Classroom: OverviewDistance Classroom: Overview

the main classroom a distance classroom

via hi-speed private network

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Student‘s View at MainStudent‘s View at Main Classroom Classroom

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Video from a distance classroom

Lecturer's ViewLecturer's View at Main Classroom at Main Classroom

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Tablet and video device

Video 2 to distance classrooms

Video from a distance classroom

Video 1 to distance classrooms

Student's View at BranchStudent's View at Branch

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Video 1 from the main class room

Video 2 from the main class room

iPBL: Infrastructure for PBLiPBL: Infrastructure for PBL• Using ICT to provide the supporting environment for PBL

We introduced a groupware in order to support the teamwork activity for both the PBL students and the professors

The groupware provides a kind of a knowledge management system• The knowledge on the iPBL is divided into 2 aspects

As the contents management system• The students and professors can easily share the documents over the

web As the project managements system

• Project members can share the project's schedule based on the work breakdown structure with a special application software

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iPBL: OverviewiPBL: Overview

Project Manager (student)- Planning- Progress management

Member (student)- Reporting their progress- Checking their tasks- sharing risk, issue and results

Professor- Tracking the progress of PBL- Checking their time of activities- Checking their results

iPBL: Knowledge- contents management:workspace, files and folders

- project management: such as Gantt chart and tasks

powered by Project Server 2007 and SharePoint Services

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iPBL: SnapshotiPBL: Snapshot

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Project name and Tasks Project management:

Gantt chart

Dashboard andBulletin Board

Contents management:documents, etc.

Competencies Measuring ToolCompetencies Measuring Tool• The tool is to measure the difference of the various decisions

between the engineers and the students• It compares

The decisions which are decided by the skilled professional engineers The decisions which are decided by the students

• The questions to be decided by students are 7 types About 350 items

• The output from the tool is 31 detail evaluation elements with graphical charts

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QuestionnaireQuestionnaire

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Questions:7 types

about 350 items

ResultResult

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Output:31 detail evaluation elements

with graphical charts

PBL through International Virtual CompaniesPBL through International Virtual Companies

• Big issues about PBL How to have the good projects How to simulate the various stakeholders such as customers,

capitalists and so on. How to combine the students and industries

• Virtual company composed of universities and industry members will be the best solution to solve above issues

APEN: Asian Professional Education NetworkAPEN: Asian Professional Education Network

• APEN Network of Asian Universities, Industries for education of

professionals

• Functions of APEN Establish a virtual business company at each university in cooperation

with a company Set up the virtual business project at the virtual company Make trade between virtual companies and/or compete the results

among the virtual companies Provide the international market for the professional labor

Merits of APENMerits of APEN• For universities

Global business project environment with lower costs Diversification of PBL activities by using the resources of the virtual

companies Regional development through the virtual company's activity.

• For companies Finding international human resources by monitoring the project

situation New-product developments, Market researches

• For students Language skills, experience of global environments Expanding career capabilities Job matching with different cultural companies

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Commitment of AIIT for APENCommitment of AIIT for APEN• Commitment

AIIT can provide various knowledge, experience and documents which are useful for PBL in APEN

• Steering committee (APEN-ST) The central organization of APEN AIIT can be a headquarter office of APEN-ST

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Professional CommunityProfessional Community• Members

IT professional engineers: Our alumni and others IT professional companies IT professional schools

• Purposes: Accumulation of wisdom and professional about ICT Various communications among members, such as career

opportunities, expertise requests, consulting offers, business deals, new ventures, personal reference requests, job inquiries and requests to reconnect

Technical evaluation, growth and activity of engineers

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Professional CommunityProfessional Community• Various workshops and classes

Knowledge Home Port: video lectures after graduation Academic Credit Bank and Certification Programs Workshop , such as Monthly Forum Open library

• Visiting professor, visiting scholar of sabbatical leave and registered lecturer

• Educational materials and projects

• Social network service and learning portfolio47

ICT Cloud PlatformICT Cloud Platform• SaaS (Software as a service) platform for professional

education We will host and provide the following applications on our Web

servers to the users of other universities for use as a service on demand.

• Our mentioned applications which we have developed for professional education, such as video communication tool for SoTL activities, learning portfolio and SET tools.

• Other related applications which will be contributed. The users of other universities need only PCs, and they do not need

to pay the cost of servers and deployments.

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Thank YouThank You

• If you have any interests in our project, please contact us.• mailto: apen@aiit.ac.jp

• Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology Public University Corporation of Tokyo Metropolitan Government Higashi Ooi 1-10-40, Shinagawa, Tokyo, 140-0011, Japan http://aiit.ac.jp/english/

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