“Proposal on learning program with observation supported by simulation contents” by Takahashi, Wakabayashi, Aoki and Watanabe

The main purpose of this research is to propose an educational program which will utilize the simulation contents focused on the workshop program in a public aquarium.

Many of the Japanese aquariums prepared workshop programs in the intense of observing living aquatic animals. In order to settle such kind of observation as an experience, it is necessary to focus on the process through the program that enables to study and learn it repeatedly with the experimental trial and error.

So, I planned to propose an educational program focused on utilizing the 3-D simulation contents that would be effective to study and learn repeatedly the target in the mode of experimental try and error.

The advantage to focus on the simulation contents in the process of workshop programs is that it can provide the observing points of view which cannot be provided in the observation of actual aquatic animals in a limited time and location.

As for the background of my proposal, there are investigations on existing workshop programs in order to analyze our simulation contents we have already developed, so that I can investigate the points of view that may particular to the simulation contents. This investigation showed us also as a result that it is important to reinforce the ways of representing and expressing information and to equip the operating rules that are suitable for our reconfirmed programs.

I propose an educational program which is effective to the observing study, which would activate the potency of the simulation contents in a performance of the workshop programs.