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Fumihiko SHINOHARA
Professor Emeritus
Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo 184-8501 JAPAN

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Hello, he is Mr. Fumihiko SHINOHARA, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Gakugei University.
After retiring from the Uiversity on March 2014, he started his extended career to teach educational technology and its related subject matters at the Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education of the University as a Professor Extraordinary till 31 March 2016,

He has worked at the UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok (UNESCO Bangkok), Bangkok Thailand, for two years from 9 September 2002 to 8 September 2004 as a secondment under the contract between the Japanese Government and UNESCO HQs with the highest cooperation and understanding of Tokyo Gakugei University.

After completion of two year mission on ICT and higher education related services and cooperation in UNESCO for the member states, he returned to the Tokyo Gakugei University as a professor of Educational Technology. In addition, he is now working with several international institutions as visiting professors and/or senior consultant; such as at the International Center of Teacher Education in East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, at SEAMEO SEAMOLEC and SEAMEO RETRAC, Jakarta, Indonesia, at Mongolian National Univeristy of Education(MSUE), Ulaanbaataar, Mongolia, at Sampoerna University, Jakarta, Indonesia, and he has been serving as a Member of the Editorial Board of the International Juournal of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning, which is published by Hong Kong University School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKU SPACE), and of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Research in Continuing Education & Lifelong Learning (CELL Research Centre), Hong Kong University School of Professional and Continuing Education, and also as a Member for the APCJ (Asia-Pacific Collaborative Education Journal,) editorial board, which has been contributing the collaborative activities of international education, the research and innovations in teaching and learning with technology through the printed format (ISSN 1738-3285) as well as its on-line journal in order to share knowledge and experiences among APEC economies, taking for examples.

I know that he has a long-standing interest in improvement of teaching-learning activities with the use of computers and related media both in schools and lifelong learning institutions focusing on the fields of science and mathematics education and professional development in teacher education and training, while he has been challenging the paradigm shift in education including the transnational and transborder education delivery system and ESD, now called as SDGs, geared by the stronger capabilities of ICT in the coming knowledge and IT oriented society.
His first paper written in 1976 when he was a PhD candidate is luckily archived here, while one of his innovative and challengeable recent works on the improvement of informatics education curriculum by applying J.S Bruner's approach to its design can be found here.

At the same time he has gone into business since April 2006 with his colleagues to promote computer utilization in education. The name of his company is CreativeLearning, Inc.

On Friday 14 October 2011, at the 60th Anniversary of Mongolian State University of Education(MSUE), he is awarded the Honorary Doctor by the University.
On 12 September 2014 he was awarded as a '2014 Most Distinguished Person of Audiovisual Education,' by Japan Audio Visual Education Association.
On 30 August 2017 he was awarded as a 'Person of Distinguished Service and Merit,' by JSSE, the Japan Society for Science Education.
On 4 November 2023 he was awarded as an 'Honorary member ,' by JAEMS, the Japan Association for Educational Media Study.

He has published several books and@research papers, including Improvement of Science and Mathematics Education with the Use of Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) System, Computers in Audiovisual Education, Current Trends and Prospects of New Information Technologies in Teacher Education in Japan, A Short History on the Application of Multimedia in Japanese Education, Handbook of Diplomas, Degrees, and Other Certificates in Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific, for taking some examples.

Besides such a brief introduction of his career, may I give you a bit of another information about his work so far I compiled in the field of educational technology such as-

(1) Problems and Issues of Digital Textbooks in Schools in Japan - Policy and Status on School Environment 2015 -
(2) Audiovisual Education,
(3) e-learning/APEID Tokyo Seminar on Educational Technology (29 August- 7 September 2004)
(4) Science Education,
(5) Research and Development of Multimedia Software,
(6) Empirical Study on the Effects of the Internet Utilization on the Motivation of Student's Learning.
(7) Research and Development of In-service Teacher Training Curriculum.
(8) Comparative Study of International Education Cooperation,.........

(9) Research on the Transnational and transborder education reform in higher education coping with teachers education and professional development utilizing ICT.
(10) SSE Green Teacher Project

In addition to such education and research activities as stated above, he has been managing several non-profit organizations (NPOs) in order to promote and assist in the international and national education and human resource development and cooperation as well.

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Activities in UNESCO Bangkok 2002-2004

ICT in Education general Management Presentations Speeches Misc

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Education in General Higher Education Teacher Education Science Education Science and Technology Education Informatics Education Media Education Misc
International Cooperation Multimedia Open and Distance Learning, ODL the Internet Learning Society Tokyo 2007 Ed Tech Seminar University Cooperation .....

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Education in General Higher Education(pdf) Teacher Education(pdf) Science and Mathematics Education(pdf) Science and Technology Education Informatics Education Media Education (pdf) Misc
International Cooperation Multimedia Open and Distance Learning, ODL the Internet Learning Society ESD ICT-AV Technologies Integration into ESD Programming - Education in a Technological World -
UNESCO ICT Award Seremony and Workshop 13th APEID Int'l Conference (partly in Japanese, pdf) 14th APEID Int'l Conference (pdf) 15th APEID Int'l Conference International Association for Educational Media and Communication Studies (IAEMCS)..... Institute for the Study of School Education Innovation JAVEA Special for Challenging to Integrate Printed Materials and Audio-video Files: Series and Special Articles on AV Education Basics .....
2015 Intensive Course at MNUE, UB, Mongolia (in Mongolian) 2015 Intensive Course at MNUE, UB, Mongolia) 2016 Intensive Course at IDEC, Hiroshim University, Hiroshima, Japan 2016 Intensive Course at MNUE, Nov. 7-17, 2016, UB, Mongolia) 2016 Extra Actvities, Nov 12-13 2016, UB, Mongolia) Quality Education -Past, Present and Future, 18th UNESCO-APEID International Conference, 26-28 October 2016, BKK Thailand 2017 Intensive Course at IDEC, Hiroshim University, Hiroshima, Japan  
Special Reports on Computer Programming Education Overseas, JAVEA (in Japanese) Special Reports on Media Literacy Education Overseas, JAVEA (in Japanese) SCOPE of Audio-Visual Education, JAVEA(in Japanese)          

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UNESCO (pdf) Tokyo Gakugei Univ.-KRI International Corp. -JICA Mongolian Joint Project International Contest on the Utilization of Multimedia Materials International Innovative ICT AWARD Project sponcered by UNESCO BKK International Cooperation SSE Green Teacher Project Misc


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