Evaluation of TERAKOYA Learning System Linking Multi-point Remote Users as Supplementary Lessons

Abstract

This paper discusses the effectiveness of the new TERAKOYA learning system in remedial education. This system provides both interactive lessons and a small private school environment similar to the 18th-century Japanese basic schools called TERAKOYA. It helps students study actively anywhere on a local area network linking multipoint remote users, and it provides an interactive evening lesson using tablet PCs and custom-built applications both in the dormitory and at home, so students and teachers can stay in their own living spaces. The proposed learning system was implemented in a girl’s dormitory with a teacher at home or in a teacher’s room on campus over one year. The implementation employed a handwritten electric whiteboard with verbal communication through a headset. After this test was conducted, the effectiveness of the system in helping students study actively and willingly as an example of “right time, right place” learning was verified.