The Practice of Study on Heredity by Use of Teaching Materials for Web Based Training in a Correspondence High School

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Currently, about 180,000 students are attending Japanese correspondence high schools. There are many kinds of students having considerable differences of scholastic ability. The fact leads to the necessity of introducing individual study system to ensure the achievement of learning of students in correspondence high schools. The Web Based Training System was developed for that purpose based on a popular Learning Management System“Moodle”. The development was promoted by a recent reform of government policy that recognized utilization of e-Learning in correspondence high schools. The system processes the study courses described by XML with XSLT processor and JavaScript. The greatest feature of the system is ability to save study-records of students in a server and then analyze them. This system has been used in biology classes to study heredity. It is found that some students showed enhancement of their learning will and corrections of wrong concepts concerning to heredity due to the usage of results of study-records and its analysis. As the result, it was confirmed that the use of analysis of study-records in e-Learning was effective to support the individual education in a corresponding high school.

Distance Learning and the Internet Conference: 9th: Waseda University (Tokyo: Japan): 19-22 November 2008. The Distance Learning and the Internet Conference (DLI) is a flagship activity of APRUNet, which explores global issues in distance learning and the utilization of current information technology in education amongst Pacific Rim universities. As an annual conference series that always attracts leading distance learning and ICT experts from academia, business and government from around the world, DLI's mission is to facilitate development of advanced Internet capabilities among APRU universities and Pacific Rim economies in collaboration with strategic and commercial partners. Session 1 e-Learning Practice (1)

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