Outline of the event
Kyoto FD Executive School
Systematic Improvement of University Education and Leadership in the Age of Global
- Date & Time
- Monday, June 23, 2012 11:20~12:20
- Venue
- Kyoto Tower Hotel 6F Milan/Naples
- Target
- Executive faculty and staff of member universities and junior colleges of university consortiums
- Organizer
- University Consortium Kyoto
- Lecturer
- Toru Iiyoshi (Professor, Center for Research and Development in Higher Education, Kyoto University)
Born in Tokyo. After graduating from International Christian University and the Graduate School of Education, he completed a doctoral program at Florida State University. Ph.D. in Instructional Systems. After serving as Director of the Carnegie Foundation Institute for Knowledge and Media, a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo’s Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, and a senior strategist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Educational Innovation and Technology, he is currently a professor at the Center for the Promotion of Research and Development in Higher Education, Kyoto University, and a visiting professor at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology’s Graduate Education Initiative Center. He is the co-author of “Learning on the Web” (Chikuma Shobo), “Opening Up Education” (MIT Publishing), and “Multimedia Design Theory” (ASCII).
Implementation Report
On Saturday, June 23, 2012, the University Consortium Kyoto held the “2012 Kyoto FD Executive School”.
We welcomed 53 participants, mainly from the presidents of the 50 member universities and other members of the university executive committee, and Dr. Toru Iiyoshi of Kyoto University gave a thought-provoking talk based on his extensive knowledge and experience in higher education at the Carnegie Endowment and MIT.
Although the lecture was limited to the time after the general meeting of the consortium, many questions were asked after the lecture was over, and a lively question-and-answer session was held.
In a post-event questionnaire from a participant, he said, “I was very inspired, and I realized how old and fragile the university industry in Japan is.” Comments such as “I was able to get a lot of hints for thinking about how to make students actively learn.” In addition, almost all of the respondents responded that it is necessary to continue to conduct such training in the future.
Inquiries
University Consortium Kyoto FD Project
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