Hello everyone. My name is Yuna Kahara.
This is my first blog on my page.
I write an article about the way of giving
lessons changes in most of universities except Japan. I read
this article in Nihon Keizai newspaper on May 30, 2013.
You can also check the article by Nikkei Online News.
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Many
universities in Europe and United States start
to take the idea called “reversal class”. According to the idea, they use
Internet mainly to gain knowledge and try to discuss hard in classroom. So lectures
are not regarded as important in the class room. Accessing to free courses has allowed students to obtain a level of
education and it also enabled students to ask something
unclear by commenting to the page. This type of education is called "MOOCS". The page also contains transparent explanation by some moving images.
Only
one negative point of MOOCS is that student can’t get credit through taking class. But thinking it reduces time
and fee to commute to school, that is not a big problem. I think Japan also
have to introduce the system like MOOCS. In MOOCS, all classes are conducted in English. So we
should study English hard because no translation system in it. The ultimate goal is to tell one’s idea to other
students in English. It must lead to heated discussion in the classroom.
Some people think this style of study is ineffective. Because it is difficult to keep knowing about students who are being lazy. It seriously leads to the expansion of gap in study abilities.
I think we can deepen our understanding in class by using something like blog to communicate and
exchange each person’s idea. So I really think this
type of class is better.
