A Computing System for Higher Education Based on the Development Theory of Relationships

Karasawa Toshimitsu 
(Yayasan Pelajaran Mara Mara Educational Foundation Agency of Ministry of Rural and Regional Development, Malaysia)

Abstract: In this paper, I propose a scheme to effectively works by controlling information flow from real space (RS) to digital space (DS), and from DS to RS, based on the concept of “Development theory of relationships Computing”. In practice, my scheme controls availability of shared workspace in DS for cooperative works, according to the situation of tasks and workers in RS, in order to accelerative works, along with reinforcing “value placed on information”. Using this scheme, advanced support to improve quality of intellectual cooperative works can be realized. In this paper, I apply my proposed scheme to group learning domain. This is an educational activity domain where group members including a teacher and several students cooperatively solve the given problems. Applying to this domain, I show that the proposed scheme, i.e., suitable availability control of shared workspace in DS, can cooperative works. From experiment results, I found that the cooperative problem solving by teacher and students were accelerated. Also I confirmed that the learning outcomes were improved, by controlling availability of the shared workspace, according to the progress of the group learning process. From these results I evaluated the effectiveness of my proposal.

Key words: computer system, high education, development theory of relationships