e-portfolio
Lesson with Tablet
30 Jan, 2015 e-portfolioCloud ClassMessages from President
Systems Development Corporation in Tachikawa, Tokyo CONPHIC Co., Ltd. Thank you for visiting our blog. Yesterday (January 29, 2015), we attended a public program in Local Autonomy College in Tachikawa. The speaker was Mr. Hiwatashi, a former mayor of Takeo City in Saga and the theme of the lecture was “常識をくつがえすまちづくり” (meaning community renovation beyond common sense). When he was a mayor, he adopted FaceBook as HP of the city and had TUTAYA manage the city library. His innovative administration was broadcast. In these news, the case about an active lesson was introduced where tablet was adopted in schools and students can learn anytime and anywhere. CONPHIC Co., Ltd. watched …
Rubric Evaluation Criteria
29 Jan, 2015 e-portfolioMessages from President
Systems Development Corporation in Tachikawa, Tokyo CONPHIC Co., Ltd. Thank you for visiting our blog. There are more and more universities which evaluate students not by the result of the tests but based on their skills. For example, the universities make Rubric evaluation criteria which has the category like “communication,” “language skill” and “IT slill” as vertical axis and the level of each skill as abscissa axis and also apply the lessons to each level. In case of “communication,” concrete ecaluation criteria like “learning communication slill by ○○” or “learning a skill to communicate appropriately depending on the situations” are applied to each level. It is important to make Rubric …
Use of Cloud Service
20 Jan, 2015 e-portfolioCloud ClassSiteWandMessages from President
Systems Development Corporation in Tachikawa, Tokyo CONPHIC Co., Ltd. Thank you for visiting our blog. CONPHIC Co., Ltd. provides cloud services of e-portfolio system, Cloudclass system and SiteWand system. We manage these systems in a data center and you can use them without your own server devices and network devices. By using our cloud service, you do not need your own engineers and server administrators. Since we provide data backup and system maitenance, you can safely use these systems soon. You do not need the cost for equipment purchase and annual maintenance and need only the cost for usage every month. So you can implement these systems not only as …
Internationalization of Universities and High Schools
17 Jan, 2015 e-portfolioCloud ClassSystem DevelopmentMessages from President
Systems Development Corporation in Tachikawa, Tokyo CONPHIC Co., Ltd. Thank you for visiting our blog. The fiscal 2015 state budget was released. This included a lot of budgets for Internationalization (globalization) and informatization of universities. As you can see in the effort of Top Global University Project and Super Global High School, the education in Japan has become increasingly aware of the world. We will have more and more international students from other countries and more and more lessons educated in English. I think we will also have more and more flipped classroom and the education using ICT. Programin released in the Website of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science …
e-portfolio and Rubric
11 Jan, 2015 e-portfolioMessages from President
Systems Development Corporation in Tachikawa, Tokyo CONPHIC Co., Ltd. Thank you for visiting our blog. Many universities use e-portfolio systems. You can ensure the quealities of your education by visualizing learning cycles and repeating evaluation. There are many methods for evaluation. In these methods, many universities seem to consider the implementation of evaluation by Rubric. CONPHIC Co., Ltd. can develop e-portfolio system with Rubric evaluation. We will offer the most appropriate systems for your education policies and evaluation policies. We can also use open-source e-portfolio like Mahara depending on your budget. Research Center for Computing and Multimedia Studies Hosei University researched and released Mahara rubric plugin. Reference: Mahara rubric plugin …
University Portal
30 Dec, 2014 e-portfolioCloud ClassMessages from President
Systems Development Corporation in Tachikawa, Tokyo CONPHIC Co., Ltd. Thank you for visiting our blog. You can implement portal screen (initial screen) for each user if you issue student ID, teacher ID and staff ID and conduct integrated authentication on your campus system. By making an announcement in a individual news field and making a list of necessary systems for each status, users can use this depending on their status like staff, teacher and student. You can find a lot of universities that have their own university portals if you google “university portal”. We can develop education system infrastructure in addition to authentication infrastructure. Please contact CONPHIC Co., Ltd.. Please …
Recording and Delivering Lesson Videos
26 Dec, 2014 e-portfolioCloud ClassSystem DevelopmentMessages from President
Systems Development Corporation in Tachikawa, Tokyo CONPHIC Co., Ltd. Thank you for visiting our blog. LMS (Learning Management System) is implemented in many schools and each school makes efforts to create contents for the system. Students watch videos of lessons for their review at home. In additon, they have reverse instructions in which they learn watching videos before lessons. Widespread of smartphones and tablets made it easy to watch videos on the Internet. make effective use of your time like commute time. We needed an expensive equipment to make lesson video, but recently you can make it with your smartphones and put them on the Internet. CONPHIC Co., Ltd. offers …
Class Evaluation Questionnaire
23 Dec, 2014 e-portfolioCloud ClassMessages from President
Systems Development Corporation in Tachikawa, Tokyo CONPHIC Co., Ltd. Thank you for visiting our blog. Many universities have class evaluation questionnaires to improve the qualities of lessons. These questionnaires are the evaluation agaist the lessons by students and the results are submitted to Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Though these questionnaires are conducted once a semester, I think it is not enough in order to promote the communication and mutual understanding between students and teachers. Our e-portfolio system and Cloudclass enable teachers to check instantly the students’ understanding and promote the communication between students and teachers. You can realize active learnings checking the students’ understandings in your …
Practical Use of e-portfolio with Other Systems
15 Dec, 2014 e-portfolioMessages from President
Systems Development Corporation in Tachikawa, Tokyo CONPHIC Co., Ltd. Thank you for visiting our blog. I often hear the request that our customers want to use e-portfolio system with the existing systems. Recently there are many requests to use with Facebook and Twitter as well as LMS like moodle. This is because not only PCs but also smartphones has become common and we can collect the learning outcomes anytime and anywhere. What we want to ensure when using with other systems is security. The systems have a lot of individual infromation, so we need avoid divulging these information by users’ error in operation. Especially we need ensure to avoid these …
Cloud Service
8 Dec, 2014 e-portfolioCloud ClassSystem DevelopmentMessages from President
Systems Development Corporation in Tachikawa, Tokyo CONPHIC Co., Ltd. Thank you for visiting our blog. When we set up systems, we have most likely established the systems in campus or built the systems by hosting or housing data to data centers, but recently there are many cases to use cloud services. Data centers provide cloud environment, so you can operate your systems safely anytime without server administrators at a moderate price. If you use cloud services, you can easily change CPU and the capacity of hard disk drives, that is, you can change the specification of the devices smoothly in the course of the operation after implementation. CONPHIC Co., Ltd. …
