Education with Big Data Analysis

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ICT is now changing education, which has been done based on books, notebooks, classrooms and human-to-human communication in the last several hundred years. Now, textbooks and notebooks are replaced by PCs and Pads. Classrooms are globally expanded by e-learning systems and MOOCs. Human-computer interface technology provides new education methodology. Personal history of a learner can be gathered as a learning big data and analyzed to improve education methodology.

Since April 2014, Kyushu University has started a new curriculum for the first-year students and now it applies more than 5000 students and for 700+ subjects. All teaching materials (ppt/pdf) are provided by e-books system. The system records the student’s activities such as “next page”, “previous page”, “underline”, “comment”. The logs are integrated with education support systems’ logs such as Moodle and Mahara, and analyzed in order to improve learning and teaching.

I will shortly introduce our experiments and will talk about the future education system and the effects of university education.

About the speaker:

Hiroto Yasuura is an Executive Vice President of Kyushu University and in charge of Finance (CFO), Academia-Industry relationship and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Kyushu University. He is also a professor of Department of Advanced Information Technology, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, and a member of System LSI Research Center in Kyushu University. Dr. Yasuura serves as the president of AXIES (Academic eXchange for Information Environment and Strategy: Japanese society for IT utilization of Higher Education Institutes) from 2011.

Prof. Yasuura received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1976, 1978, and 1983 respectively. He was an associate professor in Kyoto University and moved to Kyushu University in 1991.

Prof. Yasuura developed several EDA systems for VLSI and hardware algorithms in Kyoto University. In Kyushu University, Prof. Yasuura have conducted research projects on the system LSI design methodology, which includes data-path width optimization, low-energy system design, SoC architecture and a core base LSI test method. He also developed an educational microprocessor, KUE-CHIP2, and promoted education of VLSI design in computer science area in Japan with VDEC in University of Tokyo.