Visiting Professor TORU IIYOSHI
Senior Scholar, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/
Toru Iiyoshi works as director of the Knowledge Media Laboratory. Working with some of the national and international initiatives and partners such as the Open Source Portfolio Initiative, where he serves as a board member, Dr. Iiyoshi provides his vision and leadership in the development and diffusion of innovative educational technology. He received the Outstanding Practice Award in Instructional Development and the Robert M. Gagne Award for Research in Instructional Design from the Association for Educational Communications and Technology.
Associate Professor YUHEI YAMAUCHI
Associate Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
http://ylab.jp/
Yuhei Yamauchi has been engaged in the research that is combined with fieldworks with regard to designing educational environments that make use of information technology. Dr. Yamauchi is the author of Digital Shakai no Literacy (Literacy in the Digital Society, Iwanami Shoten) and a co-author of Shakaijin Daigakuin e Iko (From Worker to Postgraduate, NHK Publications).
He is also a recipient of the Outstanding Young Researcher Award and the Best Research Paper Award from the Japan Society for Educational Technology.
Project Assistant Professor (full-time)
SATOSHI KITAMURA
Project Assistant Professor (full-time), Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
http://www.beatiii.jp/
Satoshi Kitamura's research centers on man's media usage behaviors in interpersonal communication. He has also been engaged in a project which investigates human behaviors observed in the use of mass media, Internet, cell phones as well as live conversations. He is also engaged in the evaluation research for educational systems in the field of educational technology. He is a recipient of the Research Award of the Japan Society for Socio-Information Studies.
Project Assistant Professor (full-time)
MASANORI YAMADA
Project Assistant Professor (full-time), Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
Visiting Fellow, Aoyama Gakuin University Human Innovation Research Center http://www.beatiii.jp/
Masanori Yamada is engaged in research and development of multimedia language teaching materials, and educational systems. Dr.Yamada is also currently Visiting Fellow at Aoyama Gakuin University. He worked for NTT Comware Corporation where he was engaged in the research on the technology related to moving images from 2000 to 2003. He received Ph.D in Human System Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2008. He was JSPS research fellowship for young scientists in 2007. He received Encouragement Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan in 2003.
Visiting Assistant Professor HIDEYA MATSUKAWA
Assistant Professor, Institute of Higher Education Research and Practice, Osaka University
http://www.cep.osaka-u.ac.jp/
Hideya Matsukawa was born in 1977. He graduated from Osaka University where he earned a Ph.D. degree at the graduate program. Dr. Matsukawa’s research centers on the development of various systems: a liaison system between a kindergarten and a child’s home, iii-online and educational system using an electronic bulletin board, and analysis of information involved in those systems. He is a recipient of the Best Research Paper Award from the Japanese Society for Information and Systems in Education.
Fellow TATSUYA HORITA
Associate Professor, National Institute of Multimedia Education
Adviser of Information and Technology Education Division, MEXT
http://horitan.net/
Tatsuya Horita has been conducting a lot of research collaborating with school teachers and companies on education utilizing information technology. Mr. Horita is also engaged in policy making with respect to integrating information technology into education as a member of various committees at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. He is the author of Media to no tsukiaikata (How Can We Get Along With the Multimedia? Justsystem) and is a recipient of the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Japan Society for Educational Technology.
Fellow JUN NAKAHARA
Associate Professor, Center for Research and Development of Higher Education, The University of Tokyo
http://www.nakahara-lab.net/
Jun Nakahara has been involved in research on the use of information technology in higher education, corporate human-resource development, and development of learning systems utilizing cell phones. Dr. Nakahara was a visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States in 2004 and is a recipient of the Outstanding Young Researcher Award and the Best Research Paper Award from the Japan Society for Educational Technology.
Coordinator TATSUYA WAKE
Researcher, Benesse Educational Research and Development Center, Educational Research and Development Headquarters, Benesse Corporation
http://benesse.jp/berd/
Tatsuya Wake graduated from the School of Economics and Business Administration at Kobe University of Commerce (now University of Hyogo). He joined Fukutake Shoten (now Benesse Corporation) in 1989 and was involved in planning and developing the major operation systems relating to sales management and financial accounting at the Information Systems Division. He was later engaged in the research on voice recognition and the new projects relating to ICT. He is currently involved in the basic research on developing new educational environments using mobile technology.
Coordinator MAI NAKANO
Researcher, Benesse Educational Research and Development Center, Educational Research and Development Headquarters, Benesse Corporation
http://benesse.jp/berd/
Mai Nakano graduated from the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology. She joined Benesse Corporation in 2000, where she was engaged in developing and editing interactive English language voice recognition CD-ROM teaching materials (BE-GO). Ms. Nakano was reassigned to the Educational Research and Development Headquarters in 2004. She is currently engaged in the basic research on developing new educational environments using mobile technology and mainly responsible for coordinating works for the BEAT Joint Research Project.
Coordinator TAISHI AKIYAMA
Researcher, Benesse Educational Research and Development Center, Educational Research and Development Headquarters, Benesse Corporation
http://benesse.jp/berd/
Taishi Akiyama studied environmental information and graduated from the Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University, and worked at the Content and Media Business Sector at KDDI before joining Benesse in 2005. His works at the previous company involved planning and developing mobile contents and such related services as DION-LOVELOG (Blog service), EZ-Naviwalk (mobile man navigation service), EZ-Joshuseki (passenger seat) Navi (mobile car navigation service) and EZ-Memory-Pocket (mobile storage service).
Associate JUNICHI OFUSA
Film Director
Lecturer, Faculty of Art and Communication, Tama Art University
Junichi Ofusa started VJ performance installations in 1980s after assuming an assistant to Nam June Paik. He is the oldest VJ in Japan who is engaged in producing TV programs inside and outside of Japan, music videos and art videos. He is currently directing NHK’s information education programs such as Internet joho-kyoku (Internet Information Office) and Koko-koza-Joho A (Lecture Series for High School Students--Information A).
Associate SEIJI SEKINE
Representative Director, SPICEWORKS Corporation
http://www.spiceworks.co.jp/
Seiji Sekine established a design office, SPICE in August, 2000. He taught Web site design at the Yamawaki Art College from March, 2001 to May, 2003. Mr. Sekine established SPICEWORKS Corporation in October, 2001, where he has been engaged in planning, producing and operating contents for Web sites and mobile sites as well as developing and operating server application services.
Associate TOSHIHISA NISHIMORI
Visiting Associate Professor, Center for Research and Development of Higher Education, The University of Tokyo
http://www.utmeet.jp/
Toshihisa Nishimori has been engaged in the research centered on the development of multimedia teaching materials that will facilitate learning through interactions among learners. He is a co-author of e-Learning Management (Ohmsha) and a recipient of the Outstanding Young Researcher Award and the Best Research Paper Award from the Japan Society for Educational Technology.
Associate HIROSHI HOTTA
Associate Professor, Faculty of Future Planning, Sonoda Women’s University
http://www.sonoda-u.ac.jp/private/k65005/
Hiroshi Hotta has been engaged in the research concerning children’s use of media devices and design for e-learning environments. He is the author of Kihonjoho Gijutsusha Chokuzen Taisaku Shiage (A Book on How to Prepare for the Basic Information Processing Engineer examination, ASCII Corporation, 2004). He received Hikotaro Sakamoto Memorial Education Media Research Encouragement Award from the Japan Association for Education Media Study and won the Best Award at the Excellent Education and Practice Using ICT Contest from the Japan Society for Information and Systems in Education.
Associate ETSUJI YAMAGUCHI
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and Culture, University of Miyazaki
http://www.miyazaki-u.ac.jp/
Etsuji Yamaguchi, a specialist in science education, has been engaged in practical research into both teaching and learning of science that utilize information and communications technology. Dr. Yamaguchi is a recipient of Encouragement Award from the Society of Japan Science Teaching and the Japan Society for Science Education. He earned a Ph.D. degree in science education from Kobe University.
Assistant SANAE SATO
BEAT Assitant
http://www.beatiii.jp/
http://ylab.jp/
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