Educational Reform by ICT in Japan: Issues and Policies

Professor Toshio Kobayashi is from the National Institute for Multimedia Education (NIME) in Japan, where he is a Professor in the Research and Development Department and Chair of the NIME Committee for International Collaboration. He is also a member of the Japan National Commission for UNESCO involved in the alleviation of the digital divide in the Asia Pacific region. His current research is on ICT-based education across different cultures and his most recent project concerns advancement of international distance education (AIDE) with a focus on support for Japanese studies.

For more details see Professor Kobayashi's Profile.

Akemi Kawafuchi joined NIME in 1987 and has since been involved in various digital learning resources projects focusing on building audiovisual databases. From 1993 to 1994 she took leave of absence from NIME to pursue research in educational technology as a visiting scholar at the School of Education of Boston University.

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