Business Overview
In the 2018 academic year, the name of “Kyoto FD Executive School” was changed to “University Executive School”.
Since its establishment in 1995, shortly after its establishment, the University Consortium Kyoto has been promoting FD activities in the Kyoto region together with member universities as an organizational initiative for faculty members to improve and enhance their teaching content and methods.
This project has been held since 2010 as a study group for university executives, including the presidents of member schools.
In the meantime, SD became mandatory due to the revision of the Standards for the Establishment of Universities in April 2017, and while university executives are required to provide training not only for FD but also for university management in general, the name of this project was changed to “University Executive School” in 2018 in order to cover not only FD but also a wide range of themes related to university management in general.
Outline of the event
We will hold a “University Executive School” for the presidents and other executives of universities and junior colleges. In this 11th lecture, titled “Transition to Organized Learner-Centered Education,” Professor Hoichi Domochi, Vice President of The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics, will be invited to give a lecture.
We would be grateful if the executive staff of each university and junior college would use this school as a reference when considering the reorganization of the teaching and learning organization and the teaching curriculum.
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- Saturday, June 27, 2020 11:00~12:20
* On the day of the event, you can connect to the Zoom webinar from 10:00. - meeting place
- Online (Zoom Webinar)
- sponsorship
- University Consortium Kyoto
- target
- Faculty and staff of the executive department of the University Consortium Kyoto member universities and junior colleges
- Participation Fee
- free
- substance
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Theme : “Transition to Organized Learner-Centered Education” summary Since the “shift to a learning paradigm” was proposed by Professor John Tug and others in 1995, the shift to learner-centered education has been attracting attention.
In this lecture, I will explain with reference to the “Comparative List with Educational Paradigms” (pre-handout). What has changed and how has the shift from an “educational paradigm” to a “learning paradigm” changed? Think about why it doesn’t change. I will also talk about how the United States overcame this “crisis” and the state of FD in universities.lecturer Dr. Gary Hoichi Domochi (Vice President and Professor, The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics / Director, Center for Higher Education and Learning Reform)
He holds a Ph.D. in Education from Columbia University in Comparative and International Education and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Tokyo. After serving as Director and Professor of the Research and Development Office of Higher Education at the Center for 21st Century Education at Hirosaki University, Director of the Center for Higher Education Development at Teikyo University, and Director and Professor of the Learning and Research Support Center at Hirosaki University, he is currently Vice President and Professor at The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics. He is the director of the Center for Innovation in Higher Education and Learning at the same university, and an advisor to the Institute for Independent Learning.
He is the author of many books, including “Portfolios Transform Japan’s Universities” (Toshindo) and “Sustainable Active Learning for Society” (Toshindo).
Currently, he is an educational consultant who conducts workshops, seminars, lectures, and university management consulting.
Implementation Report
On Saturday, June 27, 2020, the University Consortium Kyoto held the “2020 University Executive School”.
This year, from the viewpoint of preventing the spread of the new coronavirus infection, the number of participants at the venue was reduced and the event was streamed online.
On the day of the event, we welcomed participants from the executive team, including the presidents of member universities and junior colleges, and Professor Hoichi Domochi, Vice President of The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics, gave a lecture on the theme of “Transition to Learner-Centered Education in an Organized Manner.”
Since 2008, when FD became mandatory, FD conducted voluntarily by individual teachers has been systematically implemented in Japan, attracting attention from all over the world. He explained the historical background of FD, such as the fact that although the response of individual universities has caused polarization due to the systematic efforts, universities in the Kansai region are more actively engaged in FD than universities in the Kanto region, and the West, High, East, and Low in FD has become prominent.
In his lecture, he explained the shift from an “educational paradigm” to a “learning paradigm” by using the nursery rhyme “Sparrow School (the teacher is the instructor, before the war)” and “Medaka’s School” (the teacher is the facilitator, after the war) as an example.
He explained that in the past, university education was about “teaching education,” but now it has changed to “creating learning,” and that the translation of “education” as “education” in the first place was a mistranslation, and “enlightenment” is the closest translation.
In addition, regarding evaluation, he explained that it is possible to realize the ideal form of “education” by “retrospective evaluation” that only examines the content taught and evaluates the grade, but “forward-looking evaluation” that relates and develops what ⇒ learned (for example, submitting a report ⇒ returning it with comments ⇒resubmitting grade).
Participants commented that it was very helpful in promoting educational reforms, and that it was helpful in thinking about how learning should be done at universities.
Inquiries
University Consortium Kyoto FD Project
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〒600-8216 Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Nishitoin-dori, Shiokoji, Shimo-ku, Kyoto, Campus Plaza Kyoto
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