e-ラーニングにおけるコンテンツ開発(<小特集>e-Learning)  [in Japanese] Development of Digital Contents for e-Learning(<Special Issue>e-Learning)  [in Japanese]

Today, many studies about e-learning have been done in various fields. E-learning is the educational method based on IT technology. The distance education etc. that use the TV conference system through various net-works is studied. They have been actually educating in these systems using the Internet, simultaneously the research on creation of the contents used there is also an important subject. In this research, in consistency of the Millennium Project "digitization of education" which the government advances, the contents of elementary schools' social studies were created in "the digitization / the networking promotion enterprise of learning resources" that the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology had jurisdiction, and many lessons which actually used contents at elementary schools were carried out. And it introduces about the useful results obtained from those lessons. As the results, it became clear about achievements of technique development of contents, techniques and effects in which teachers' evaluation is high, techniques which should be improved more and improvement methods, etc. In response to them, about contents use on the Internet, several future views are described from fields, such as opportunities for use, transmission speed, database operation, and copyright.