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Challenges for a data-driven society

schooling, step-by-step lectures, practices and seminars are
provided. Automated class attendance record keeping is
effective for student to cope with the daily habit of class
attendance, and for teachers no more tiresome record keeping is
required.
Another interesting project is an Audio Visual Guide for the
Otani University museum, developed and operated for regular
visitors to the museum.

3. COMPARATIVE DATA OF STUDENT IT SKILLS
BEFORE AND AFTER TABLET PC DEPLOYMENT

In order to evaluate educational results within the digital
campus platform, we tested students for IT knowledge and
computing skills using “RASTI examination” [5] provided by
an IT testing-service company. Fig. 5 shows the results for the
last four years and three years before the deployment of the Fig. 6. An example of improved quiz results
tablet PC [6]. Sophomores are tested each year, so that the
same student group was not tested but results may show a
general tendency. Upper level student groups have clearly In cooperation with Moodle, iPad has become more useful in
improved the test points, however lower level students did not that students check lecture contents in advance from home to
improve. work prior to the beginning of class, which is the basis for
active learning. The iPad also plays important role when no
PCs are equipped in classrooms. Since Wi-Fi services are
available in most classrooms, the iPad complements
environments where PCs are not installed.

5. UTILIZATION OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
SERVICES

In recent years social networking services (SNS) have become
popular among students for sending messages to each other.
The penetration rate of smartphone usage to access the Internet
in Fig.7 indicates that 91.3% of young people in their twenties
mainly use smartphones in Japan in 2015 [7]. A higher
percentage is possible if the survey only questioned university
students.
On the basis of the popularity of smartphones SNS messaging
Fig. 5. IT Test Results – Before and After has become de-facto standard on campus even for messaging
between students and faculty members. To stimulate students’
motivation in face-to-face communication on campus is
We surmise that upper level students are stimulated by high important but SNS messaging by the use of smartphone does
technology devices, such as the iPad, and motivated by those not depend on time and place which has promoted smoother
tools and educational materials. and more frequent communication opportunities by forming a
Otani University introduced Moodle, a Learning Management necessary groups like classroom for with professors.
System on campus in 2014 for the purpose of developing
infrastructure of efficient classroom operation and as an e-
learning tool. This application provides many useful services
such as lecture scheduling, lecture slide contents, attendance
records, receiving reports and making quizzes and
questionnaire.

4. UTILIZATION OF LEANING MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM

It is confirmed that students try to improve test results by
taking the same quiz several times. This content helps student
comprehend lecture. Fig. 6 shows the improvement of quiz
results from the first trial to one when several weeks have
passed from the first trial. In the duration students took the quiz Fig. 7. Penetration Rate of Smartphones to access Internet
several times and evidence that a normal distribution on the
first test has changed to one with higher frequency of 100
points at the final test.

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