[gu-l] Trip to Tokyo from 4/26 to 5/19/01 (Part 2) on fund raising for ESL
Program
Tak Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Fri, 8 Jun 2001 01:02:06 +0000 (GMT)
<<June 7, 2001>>
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Dr. David Levy <AXEL@conted.lan.mcgill.ca>
Paul Kawachi <paul@paulkawachi.com>
Steve McCarty <steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp>
Steven Donahue <sdonah01@bellsouth.net>
Bob Stein <bob@nightkitchen.com>
Sandra M. Benedetto <sbenedetto@pnmt.com>
Takashi Yoshimizu <yosimizu@synchro.co.jp>
James Masao Toyama <James.Toyama@am.sony.com>
Richard Thompson <rthompso@mum.edu>
Takashi Nagao <MXB03077@niftyserve.or.jp>
Dear David, Paul and Steve:
===========================
(1) Many thanks for your coming to Tokyo while I was there from 4/26th to
5/19th, for fund raising to our English as a Second Language (ESL)
program -- see "Proposal for an On-Line Corporate: English as a Second
Language (ESL) Program (Draft #9), March 23, 2001" at
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/ESL%20Program/ESL_Program_Proposal.html
(2) ATTACHMENT I is the list of people whom we visited for the fund
raising.
Dear David:
===========
You may use it for your report.
I am also arranging now to have a demo of DVD by Sandra M.
Benedetto of Pioneer in NYC and to visit James Masao Toyama of
SONY in New Jersey in July.
.
(3) Target of this program is the would-be decision-makers of large
Japanese organizations.
(4) Goal of this program is to have learners of this program sufficient
English speaking capability in such a way that they can effectively
participate in, for example, "Managing the Difficult Business
Conversation," the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School -- see
more at
http://www.pon.execseminars.com/conversation/index.html
BTW, David Levy is now exploring how to tie up our ESL program with
the currently on-going Master of Business Administration (MBA) program
at Sofia University with David's McGill University -- see ATTACHMENT
II. (As you may know, McGill is a Harvard of Canada.)
(5) Our ESL program will be the combined use of the followings;
(a) G3 broadband wireless Internet,
(b) Laptop/notebook,
(c) Web teaching of pronunciation with scientific audio analyzer --
see Steven Donahue's web site,
(d) Electronic Text-Book -- see for a sample at Bob Stein's web
site,
(e) DVD for including cultural background which will be
interconnected to a web so that only large multimedia files will
be accessed from the DVD to save the transmission time and cost.
The key to the success and popularity of David Levy's Everyday
English in China (which was broadcast via radio to 20 million
learners in 5 years) was the interlinkage of his English lesson
to the description of Canadian culture.
We would like to include it into DVD which will be linked to a
web -- a technology developed by Pioneer in New Jersey.
(6) This is a new approach of delivering e-learning as combining the most
advanced Japanese technologies on broadband wireless Internet and
laptop/notebook with the North American's web-based platform and
content development.
(7) If successful, this approach can be utilized for any other subjects,
e.g., Japanese language teaching and so on.
This approach then also individualize e-learning at anywhere, anytime
and at any pace -- at much less costs than conventional satellite
-oriented videoconferencing type, replicating class-room type distance
learning.
As I said in my previous list distribution, the "wireless" word
has a connotation of "freedom" and "flexibility" in contrast to
the "wired" with "slave" and "criminal." Thus, I believe that
the wireless approach is the future direction of global e-learning.
Proliferation of cell phones around the world shows the
popularity of wireless telecom media. Then, why not with
Internet.
I would like to promote this approach through our Global
University System (GUS) everywhere around the world,
particularly in Japan in order to crack down traditional social
concept of "gaku-batsu" and "gaku-reki" (*) in Japanese so that
the equality can prevail more in Japan. -- this is one of
reasons why of my zeal pushing Internet use in Japan in the past
three decades.
This will certainly be a value/mind change, and hence
social revolution.
(*) mentioned in my previous list distribution "Trip to Tokyo
from 4/26 to 5/19/01 (Part 1); (1) GSTF, (2) Workshop in Tokyo
in 2002" -- see at the Mailman archival mentioned at the top of
this msg.
This traditional "gaku-reki" concept is now gradually
changing in Japan, e.g., Mr. Shoyama, President of
Hitachi, Ltd, is a junior graduate of my alma mater, Tokyo
Institute of Technology, where the presidents were usually
graduates of the University of Tokyo.
Dear Steve:
===========
(8) Many thanks for your report (ATTACHMENT III). This saved a lot of my
time. Some of additional comments of mine are as follows;
(a) Para (7):
We will be more businesslike when we produce a feasibility study
out of our workshop in Manila, etc. We are still in R&D stage,
one step ahead of those business people.
(b) Para (9)
Pls solicit Waseda people's participation in our workshop in
Tokyo in 2002.
Dear Paul:
==========
(9) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT IV and V).
Dear Richard:
=============
Pls click "Current Reference Websites" at the top of the home
page of our web which URL is listed in my e-signature below.
You can then find our very closely interwoven, following
projects for your reference;
1. Global University System (GUS) (TM),
2. Global Broadband Internet (GBI),
3. Global Service Trust Fund (GSTF) (TM).
Our colleague in Costa Rica is now trying to create a
GUS/Central American and the Caribbean.
Pls send me your full address (name of your affiliate, snail
mail address, phone/fax, etc.) so that I can admit you into our
list for keeping you updated with our daily progresses.
(10) Pls send your Japanese version of the Army Questionnaire to Mr. Nishi
ASAP -- cc to me.
This will be the kick-off of our ESL program, if he (and Kodaira camp
people of Japanese Self-Defence) will accept it.
(11) You may contact Takashi Nagao, Assistant Director, Osaka Shin-Ai
Jogakuin Media Center. I visited his school in 1998.
I also found Shin-Ai in Sao Paulo. It is a big school system around
the world.
(12) I read your paper with great interest.
I would suggest that you put such a paper in your web so that many
people can enjoy reading it.
You may also do a similar comparison between Japan and England
(or US) in view point of cultural difference. Such a study may
be much deeper and more interesting -- you may also come to the
differences of eastern and western religions, since languages
are closely related to cultures and cultures are based on
religions. You may take a look to my comparisons of East and
West; "Rainbow Bridge Across the Pacific" in Chapter 3 of my
book draft at;
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/PART_I/Chapter_III/Contents_of_Chapter_3.html
(13) BTW, Pureza would be busy with her school and does not have any
time/capability to develop ESL. Cebu does not meet with the goal of
our ESL mentioned above.
Paul Lefrere would also be busy with our European operation of GUS and
of course, with his work at the U.K. Open University.
David Payne would also be busy with his job of assisting Prime
Minister of Quebec Government.
(14) Yellowstone Park (nearby Montana State University where I got my MS in
Chemical Engineering and our Administrative Center for our
Pacific/Asia operation of GUS) and Maui in Hawaii are where the
learners of our ESL will have group tours in such a way that they can
cooperate/collaborate easily via email later during the execution of
our ESL.
Face-to-face mtg is essential to the success of any e-learning, if it
is possible. We plan to have an orientation for a week in Tokyo, and
then two weeks of group tour to either Yellowstone Park in summer (and
of course, to McGill, etc.) or Maui in winter so that the group
members will get familiarize each other. This will reduce the
frequency of having synchronous videoconferencing during the program
session, since the group members can easily communicate via email or
audio conferencing as remembering each other's face, thus saving cost
of telecom for videoconferencing. Human brain has tremendous capacity
which e-learning practitioners often forget to take into account.
(15) I just don't understand why you bring Cebu into the picture of our ESL
program.
Dear Steven:
============
(16) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT VI).
I read your paper with great interest.
Let's talk about your paper on our GLOSAS projects in Atlanta on July
25th. Thanks for your publicity effort.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
List of persons
visited for fund raising for ESL program in Japan
from 4/26th to 5/19th, 2001
(The people listed below are representatives of the groups.)
5/7/01 (Nonday)
===============
Tetsuo Morimoto
Special Advisor
Foundation for MultiMedia Communications (FMMC)
Japan Electronic Messaging Association Cyber Business Association
Nisso 22 bldg, 5F
1-11-10 Azabudai
Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0041
JAPAN
Tel: +81-3-3583-5811
Fax: +81-3-3583-5813 (G3)
+81-3-5561-6889 (G4)
morimot@fmmc.or.jp
http://www.fmmc.or.jp
He will pass on our proposal to the member of his foundation.
5/8/01 (Tuesday)
================
Mr Kenichiro Utsunomiya
Senior Managing Director
The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation
Nishi-shimbashi Kowa Bldg. 5F
1-6-11 Nishishimbashi
Mimato-ku, Tokyo 105-0003
JAPAN
Tel No. +813 3580 3411
Fax No. +813 3580 3488
E-Mail: taf@mx6.mesh.ne.jp
His foundation (supported by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT))
usually fund R&D of telecom technology, but he will explore the
possibility of funding an application program of telecom technology,
e.g., our ESL program, and let me know.
5/9/01 (Wednesday)
==================
Dr. Yasuharu Suematsu
Director General
National Institute of Informatics
1-2-2 Hitotsubashi
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430
JAPAN
03-4212-2001
Fax: 03-4212-2004
He is a junior graduate of my alma mater, Tokyo Institute of
Technology, and was its President, too. He kindly introduced me to
Dr. Naito, its present President -- see below.
5/10/01 (Thursday)
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Kunio Taniguchi
President and Representative Director
Waseda University International Co., Ltd.
1-101 Totsuka-machi
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0071
Japan
Tel: +81-3-5286-8030
Fax: +81-3-5286-8055
taniguchi@w-int.net
They has initiated videoconferencing type (ISDN) ESL program, and hope
to switch to Internet soon. I proposed a joint development of our ESL
program.
5/14/01 (Monday)
================
Yukio Mizuno. Dr. Eng.
Chairman
Nitsuko Corporation
2-3 Kandatsukasa-cho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8532
JAPAN
+81-3-3259-1311
Fax: +81-3-5282-5900
mizunoy@sogw.nitsuko.co.jp
http://www.nitsuko.co.jp
He is my classmate at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and was a
senior Vice President of NEC Corporation. He will pass on our
proposal to appropriate person at NEC.
5/15/01 (Tuesday)
=================
Yoshiyuki Naito Dr. Engng.
President
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Ohokayama, Meguro-Ku
Tokyo 152-8550
Japan
Tel: +81-3-5734-2001
Fax: +81-3-5734-3446
He introduced me to Mr. Shoyama, President of Hitach, Ltd, and Mr.
Kawada, Senior Vice President of Matsushita -- who are my junior
graduates.
Isao Tsujimoto
Director, Teaching Resources Division
Japanese-Language Institute, Urawa
The Japan Foundation
5-6-36 Kita-Urawa
Urawa-shi, Saitama 336-0002
Japan
Tel 81-48-834-1183
Cel: 090-7283-3469
Fax 81-48-841-7846
Isao_Tsujimoto@jpf.go.jp
I made a presentation on "Three GLOSAS Projects" -- see its PowerPoint
slide show at;
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Manila%20Workshop/AAOU_Manila_1-27-
00_copy/GLOSAS+WS+USPNet_Folder/GLOSAS+WS+USPNet.htm
We also made presentation of our ESL program and proposed a joint
development since its delivery system and web platform may be usable
for his Japanese language teaching. Mr. Yoshimizu kindly demonstrated
how wireless Internet (at 64 Kbps) can be hooked to his small laptop,
as successfully accessing a web site.
May "Mayumi" Tanimoto
Business Development & Marketing Div., Section 3
SOFTBANK Media & Marketing Corp.
4-13-13, Akasaka
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052
Tel: +81-3-5549-1303
Cel: 090-1110-2742
Fax: +81-3-5549-1300
mtanimot@softbank.co.jp
http://www.softbank.co.jp/
See Steve McCarty's report below (ATTACHMENT III).
5/16/01 (Wednesday)
===================
Michiko Nakano, Ph.D.
Director
Cross-Cultural Distance Learning Research Center
School of Education
Waseda University
1-6-1 Nishi-waseda
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8050
TeI: +81-(0)3-5286-1558 (Office)
Tel/Fax: +81-(0)3-5389-2425 (Home)
nakanom@mn.waseda.ac.jp
See Steve McCarty's report below (ATTACHMENT III).
Masanori Nishi
Director
Public Information Division
Japan Defense Agency
5-1. Ichigaya, Honmura-Cho
Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 162-8801
Japan
Tel: 03-5229-2150
Fax: 03-5269-3270
nishi-ke@wa2.so-net.ne.jp
See Steve McCarty's report below (ATTACHMENT III).
5/17/01 (Thursday)
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Kazuyoshi Koizumi
Benesse Educational Research Center
Benesse Corporation
Tokyo Head Office
1-34 Ochiai, Tama City
Tokyo 206-8686
Japan
Tel: +81-42-356-0841
Fax: +81-42-356-7313
koizumik@mail.benesse.co.jp
See Steve McCarty's report below (ATTACHMENT III).
5/18/01 (Friday)
================
Kazuhiro Tachibana
General Manager
Strategic Planning Office
Digital Media
Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi Atago Bldg.,
15-12 Nishi Shimbashi 2-chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8430
Japan
Tel: +81-3-3506-1500
Fax: +81-3-3506-1614
tachi@dm.kaden.hitachi.co.jp
He will pass on our ESL proposal to an appropriate person for reply to
us.
Masahiro Kanai
General Manager
Office of The President
National/Panasonic
Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd.
1-30, Shiba-Daimon 1-Chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8586
Japan
Tel: +81 3 3438 5415
Fax: +81 3 3438 9212
p06354@plt.mci.mei.co.jp
http://www.mci.panasonic.co.jp/english/
He will pass on our ESL proposal to an appropriate person for reply to
us.
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ATTACHMENT II
The Daily Yomiuri
Advertisement
(Friday, May 18, 2001)
McGill MBA Japan
The McGill MBA Japan is a two-year, 60-credit program delivered in
Japan. The degree in international business management has been
structured to allow candidates to complete it while working full-time. The
academic content and standards of the program are identical to those of the
McGill MBA taught in Montreal. Adhering to the highest teaching standards of
McGill University, McGill MBA Japan courses are taught by professors and
adjunct professors from McGill's Faculty of Management located in the Yotsuya
campus of Sophia University in Tokyo.
McGill MBA Japan prides itself on being an international course with nature
quality standards. Fifteen nationalities currently are represented among the
student body. Entry requirements and courses are the same as those of the
MBA course offered in Montreal, which has been ranked among the top 40
business schools by London's Financial Times. The program is diverse and
practical. Students share a broad range of work expertise with their
classmates on weekends, and then apply what they learn in their jobs during
the week. The academic year begins and ends in June. Classes are scheduled
for two weekends per month throughout the year from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., All
classes are taught in English. For more information, call McGill MBA Japan at
(03) 5215-1383.
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ATTACHMENT III
Subject: Tokyo Briefing
Date: Monday, May 21, 2001 8:52 PM
From: Steve McCarty <steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp>
To: <paul@fka.att.ne.jp>, Tak Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: Paul Kawachi <paul@paulkawachi.com>, Steven Donahue
<sdonah01@bellsouth.net>, David Levy <axel@conted.lan.mcgill.ca>
(1)
Paul, thanks for you message about the Caribbean.
(2)
Steven, you must be the most prolific contributor
to the American Language Review, congratulations.
I think you have my address, and Dr. Utsumi's is at
the bottom of his listserv messages and so forth.
(3)
Paul and Steven, let me brief you on the places
we went in Tokyo while I was there from May 14-17.
As you will see, I have a lot of thank-you messages
to write in Japanese, and some name cards had
no e-mail or even fax number listed.
(4)
We went to the national Diet on the 14th and met
the son of Souhei Miyashita, who introduced us to the
Director of the Public Information Division of the
Japan Defense Agency. So we went to Japan's
"Pentagon" on the 16th. Mr. Masanori Nishi was a
remarkable bilingual who changed to English after
while of seeming like a typical Japanese. He agreed
to refer our ESL project to the Sel-Defense Forces'
language teaching facility on the outskirts of Tokyo.
(5)
On the 15th we first went to see President Yoshiyuki
Naito of Tokyo Institute of Technology, who agreed
to introduce Dr. Utsumi to the President of Hitachi
and a Vice-President of Matsushita, two of Japan's
largest corporations. I'm not sure who Dr. Utsumi
was able to meet before going back to New York.
(6)
Then we went to the Japan Foundation at the Ark Mori
Building in Akasaka, Tokyo, where about seven from
different agencies came, mostly involved with
Japanese language teaching. There we suggested
collaborating to use similar Web-based technology
for ESL and JSL. We demonstrated downloading
Steven's Glearner pronunciation player, and got as
far as the first quiz question, but no sound came out.
There wasn't a set of earphones with a mic there,
but I would expect the sound to come out of the
speakers of the laptop. There was keen interest,
but it may be difficult for them to move beyond
Japanese language teaching materials.
(7)
That evening we met Mayumi Tanimoto of Softbank
Media and Marketing, part of the investment group
led by Masayoshi Son that owns much of Yahoo! It
was informal, but we picked up some inside information
and advice on being not so academic but more businesslike.
(8)
On the 16th we first met Dr. Takashi Sakamoto, Director of
the Education Ministry's National Institute of Multimedia
Education, who is one of Japan's top scholars. He would
consider hosting the Global University System's Tokyo
Workshop in fiscal year 2002 if they don't have to pay
for the overseas participants.
(9)
Then we went to the Waseda University Cross-Cultural
Distance Learning Project where they have been doing
videoconferencing with quite a few universities abroad.
We had to clarify that GUS is becoming an NGO under
UNESCO (next month) and is not like the profit-oriented
consortia which sometimes have a name similar to GUS.
Earlier Dr. Utsumi had met with Waseda's international
project. Three professors met us this time. It may be
possible to collaborate on some project or grant application
in the future, such as for closing the digital divide in Asia,
provided it also helps them serve their many students.
(10)
That night we also met Yoshinori Sasaki who trains
Japanese language teachers at Ochanomizu Women's
University, a traditional national university. He said
they have been slow to get an Internet infrastructure.
(11)
On the 17th we went to the Japan International Cooperation
Agency of the government, where Dr. Utsumi tried to gain
support for the Global Service Trust Fund. Four men were
very interested, and they could appreciated things in Dr.
Utsumi's presentation such as the University of South Pacific's
satellite-based Internet, as their agency had a hand in it.
They suggested that GUS' regional operation in the
Philippines contact their large Manila office for financial
support. Much money should be available from the
Japanese government for digital divide projects, and
there should be an announcement about it at the G8 meeting
in Genoa this summer.
(12)
The last meeting before I returned here was at the
Benesse Corporation, the most successful correspondence
education company. Their needs were very different, but
they gave us an announcement of their new CD-ROM and
Web-based English system for children. My kids may do it,
so I can find out more about it. We met about ten company
members, and I will be in touch with them as an advisor to
their non-profit Child Research Net. Their business people
could consider licensing Steven's pronunciation system,
which would need complete instructions in Japanese and
probably local downloading because of the 4-5 MB files
where households are paying by the minute usually at 56 kb/s.
Or they could consider David Levy's set of tapes and text
used so successfully in China, but again it would have to be
adapted into Japanese. The large amount of reliable English
content is valuable for a place that can go full-scale into it.
Content is often lacking amidst all the gadgetry in Japan.
Collegially, Steve McCarty, Professor, Kagawa JC, Japan
President, World Association for Online Education (NPO):
waoe@waoe.org - http://waoe.org/president/index.html
Global University System (NGO) Asia-Pacific Framework:
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/
Online Publications (Asian Studies WWWVL 4-star site):
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html
In Japanese: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/
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ATTACHMENT IV
Subject: Research Potential?
Date: Sunday, May 20, 2001 8:11 AM
From: Paul Kawachi <paul@fka.att.ne.jp>
Reply-To: paul@fka.att.ne.jp
To: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: Paul Kawachi <paul@paulkawachi.com>, Steven Donahue
<sdonah01@bellsouth.net>, David Levy <axel@conted.lan.mcgill.ca>, Steve
McCarty <steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp>
Hi Tak,
I hope you had a safe flight, and having a well earnt rest before your next
travels. Thank you for all your efforts in Japan. Your personal contacts are
certainly a tremendous resource.
I noticed the following message on DEOS-L.
I wonder Tak if you might think it worthwhile to suggest to the writer
Richard Thompson of directing his research to your GLOSAS GUS work in the
Caribbean. We certainly could do with as much research interest as possible.
And while I know you are involved deeply in the mechanics of broadband
delivery, a PhD student could discover alot of useful data and ideas etc etc.
I have not contacted him. If you decide to proceed I would be interested to
follow the research as it progresses. There are of course the English
language issues in the Caribbean.
All The Best
Paul Kawachi, Japan
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Subject: [DEOS-L] Caribbean Distance Education
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:47:51 -0400
From: Richard Thompson <rthompso@MUM.EDU>
Reply-To: DEOS-L - The Distance Education Online Symposium <DEOS-
L@lists.psu.edu>
To: DEOS-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU
I am planning my dissertation research on the use of Strategic
(International) Partnerships in providing distance education in the
Caribbean. I am most interested in Post-secondary Business Education. I
would like to establish contact with anyone who has expertise, or is doing
research in the following areas:
- Distance Education in the Caribbean
- Higher Education Partnerships (particularly International Partnerships)
- Distance Education Partnerships
Can anyone help me directly, or provide me with contact information for these
areas?
Thanks
Richard Thompson
PhD in Management Candidate
E-mail: rthompso@mum.edu
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ATTACHMENT V
Subject: Re: paper...
Date: Sunday, May 27, 2001 3:54 AM
From: Paul Kawachi <paul@fka.att.ne.jp>
Reply-To: paul@fka.att.ne.jp
To: David Levy <axel@conted.lan.mcgill.ca>
Cc: Paul Kawachi <paul@paulkawachi.com>, Steven Donahue
<sdonah01@bellsouth.net>, "Steve McCarty <steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp> Tak Utsumi"
<utsumi@columbia.edu>, "Pureza IV. Veloso" <reza_7454@yahoo.com>
Hi David,
Many thanks for your note.
I have been working on the Japanese version of the Army Questionnaire here,
and it will be finished this week.
It was really good to get together in Tokyo. I regret it was only for one
day. i am sure a few more days would have been much more productive.
We basically only had time to meet.
My college by the way has a Seminary in Montreal not college (I dont know
what difference if any!!), and some exchange students and teachers attended
Montreal Univ.
I attach my Paper on intrinsic motivation (the latest one which is quite
readable I think) (in Mac Word 98, and secondly in rtf that Windows CAN open)
. The next will be ready after one week, and I'll send that then.
(142 kilobytes c8000 words)
INITIATING INTRINSIC MOTIVATION IN ONLINE EDUCATION: REVIEW OF THE CURRENT
STATE OF THE ART
Paul Kawachi Kurume Shin-Ai Women s College
Paper accepted for publication in the November 2001
SPECIAL ISSUE: "Cognitive Skills Acquisition in Life-long Learning"
of the international journal, Interactive Learning Environments
available online
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Re Japan ESL
I think we will need to get into a working group, each take some part(s) or
whatever and report back progress etc
My own feelings is that we need close working and then agree on a Progress
Report (at some stages or intervals to let Tak know progress - if we can find
him... on travels without his email access!!! <grin>
As I understand it we are five plus Tak in alphabetical order
Steven Donahue <sdonah01@bellsouth.net>,
Paul Kawachi <paul@paulkawachi.com>,
David Levy <axel@conted.lan.mcgill.ca>,
Steve McCarty <steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp>
Tak Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>,
Pureza IV. Veloso <reza_7454@yahoo.com>,
I want to include Pureza here, but I have not yet met her or talked. (Oh,
Pureza, I hope you forgive my attaching my Intrinsic Motivation paper here
uninvited). I think though we need close exchange with Phillipines if for no
other reason than they are the closest English-speaking nation, and Cebu may
be an effective center for Orientation. There are two others that might be in
our group. I have not added them into the cc mailing list for this memo
because I don't know their position or how Tak feels. Maybe David is in
charge of the Materials Production ? Paul Lefrere of course knows the
technology and speaks English - I mean can express the tech in plain English.
Dr. Paul Lefrere <p.lefrere@open.ac.uk>
David Payne <davidpayne@videotron.ca>,
As it looks to me at the moment I will direct evaluation of the curriculum
design in Japan. Also I will either direct coordination or help direct
coordination of a possible Orientation Course in Cebu. I am afraid I dont
know Tak's nominated place of Yellowstone Park for the orientation course. I
need info on that. And if there are two courses they could be comparable
(students chose one or the other) or additive - Yellowstione as permanent
center for yearlong facilities and Cebu for serial courses.
I have been on the phone a dozen times to universities in Manila to get my
schedule sorted out to visit asap, but its summer vacation there til 04 June
(I understand). I will contact Pureza by separate email early this coming
week.
More anon
Best Wishes
Paul
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ATTACHMENT VI
Subject: Sister Cities Article on ALR
Date: Sunday, May 20, 2001 9:35 AM
From: steven donahue <sdonah01@bellsouth.net>
To: <paul@fka.att.ne.jp>
Cc: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>, Paul Kawachi <paul@paulkawachi.com>,
David Levy <axel@conted.lan.mcgill.ca>, Steve McCarty <steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp>
Hello all,
I wanted to send a copy of the new American Language Review
http://www.alr.org
to you all. Its cover story is about Sister Cities International's use of the
Internet for student exchanges, particularly China. "Coincidentally," I wrote
the story. But I thought it might give you an idea of a story that I would
like to do on GLOSAS.
Could you provide me with your mailing addresses?
Best,
Steven Donahue
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Dr. David Levy
Centre for Continuing Education (CCE)
McGill University
680 Sherbrooke Street West, Suite 1184
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
H3A 3R1
514-398-7374
Fax: 514-398-2650
AXEL@conted.lan.mcgill.ca
Paul Kawachi
80-4 Minou Yamamoto Machi,
Kurume City, 839-0826
Japan
Cel: 090-4-999-7820
Fax: (81) 942-44-9727
paul@paulkawachi.com
http://www.paulkawachi.com
or,
1927-1-206 Higashi Kushiwara
Kurume City, Fukuoka 830-0003
Japan
fax: 0942 40 2080 (home)
or
Shin-ai Women's College
2278-1 Mii-machi
Kurume-shi, Japan 839-8508
Tel: 0942-43-4531
Fax: 0942-43-2531
tandai@kurume-shinai.ac.jp
http://www.kurume-shinai.ac.jp
Steve McCarty
Professor, Kagawa Junior College
President, World Association for Online Education: http://waoe.org/
Residence: 3717-33 Nii, Kokubunji, Kagawa 769-0101 JAPAN
Tel: +81-877-49-8041 (office, direct); Fax: +81-877-49-5252
E-mail: steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp, mccarty@mail.goo.ne.jp
Website Map: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/
In Japanese: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/
Steven Donahue
Broward Community College
1128 N. 16Th Avenue
Hollywood, FL 33020
954-927-8807
cell: 954-701-1561
sdonah01@bellsouth.net
sdonahue@broward.cc.fl.us
http://www.10tongues.com
http://www.glearner.com
http://fs.broward.cc.fl.us/~sdonahue
http://www.erepublic.com/publications/gt/2000/sept/departments/eCommerceSLF.shtm
Bob Stein
President
Night Kitchen
bob@nightkitchen.com
http://www.nightkitchen.com
Sandra M. Benedetto
Director, Product Development
Product Development & Technical Support Division
Pioneer New Media Technologies, Inc.
600 E. Crescent Ave.
Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458-1846
201-327-6400
201-236-4179 (direct)
Fax: 201-327-9379
sbenedetto@pnmt.com
http://www.pioneerusa.com
Takashi Yoshimizu
General Manager of 1st Sales Dept.
Synchro-Work Corporation
Saisho Bldg
8-1-14 Nishigotanda
Shinagawa-Ku, Tokyo
Japan
Tel: 03-3779-2213
Cel: 090-9321-1310
Fax: 03-5437-0730
yosimizu@synchro.co.jp
http://www.synchro.co.jp
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Vice President
International Public Affairs
Sony Electronics Inc.
155 Tice Boulevard, Mail Drop: TA3-12
Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey 07677
201-930-6238
Cel: 201-819-3108
Fax: 201-930-6165
James.Toyama@am.sony.com
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PhD in Management Candidate
rthompso@mum.edu
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Assistant Director
Osaka Shin-Ai Jogakuin Media Center
2-7-30 Furuichi
Osaka-shi, Joto-ku
Japan 536
Tel/Fax: +81-6-935-2502
MXB03077@niftyserve.or.jp
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