COLLABORATIVE FEASIBILITY STUDY WITH UNINETTUNO FOR MOBILE LEARNING IN NORTH AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST REPORTED AT INNOVATION ARABIA 9, AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE DEDICATED TO INNOVATIONS IN THE ARAB WORLD
Castalia Co. Ltd. (headquarters: Tokyo, Japan / CEO: Satoshi Yamawaki, hereinafter “Castalia”) made a presentation with regards to a joint project with UniNettuno (headquarters: Rome, Italy), a feasibility study of a smartphone-based education targeting their students based in North Africa and the Middle East.
“Innovation Arabia 9” is an international conference held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and President of HBMSU (Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University), which focuses on technology-based innovation in the entire Arab world. This year, various presentations were made in three fields, namely “Smart Learning Excellence”, “Quality and Business Management”, and “Health and Environment”.
As with last year, Castalia had been selected the sole presenter from Japan. CEO Satoshi Yamawaki and Consultant Atsushi Inutsuka made a joint presentation with Mr. Nicola Paravati, Communication Director of International Relations, UniNettuno.
Castalia’s CEO Yamawaki (right) making joint presentation with Mr. Paravati (left)
In this feasibility study entitled “Mobile learning: A one year Italo-Japanese collaboration: Best digital learning practices to go forward social learning in Middle-East and North Africa”, lectures and learning materials on subjects such as object-oriented programs in the computer science field were uploaded on Goocus, a mobile learning platform developed by Castalia. Through the learning experiences on such contents of engineering major students based in the target regions, we analyzed the differences of learning experiences and learning histories between mobile learning and conventional PC-based online learning. The presentation also referred to further joint plans to expand the target regions.
■Innovation Arabia 9
http://www.innovationarabia.ae/
■About Goocus
Goocus is the mobile learning platform developed by Castalia. The principal axis of its development is on the “continuity of learning” mainly on smartphones. In pursuit of “social learning”, the “visualization of learning”, and “gamification”, we research on how to make the learning experience a day-to-day process.
https://www.gooc.us/
■Università telematica internazionale "UniNettuno”
The International Telematic University (UniNettuno) is a private online university founded in 2005 and headquartered in Rome, Italy. It was established by the decree of Italy in 2005 as the communication and broadcasting-based university dedicated to distant learning, as part of the educational measures in the European Union to provide higher education mainly in the Mediterranean coastal regions. Lectures are offered not only in Italian but also in English, French, Arabic, Greek, and Portuguese.
http://www.uninettunouniversity.net/
■About Castalia Co., Ltd.
Castalia Co., Ltd. is a company that reinvents learning under the slogan of “find solutions to social problems with the fusion of education and IT”. We develop mobile learning platform “Goocus” and supply it to corporations and educational institutions. In addition, we collaborate with Shingakukai, an educational conglomerate that operates mainly in Nagano Prefecture, for the curriculum design at Code Academy High School ( http://code.ac.jp ), Japan’s first extensive correspondence high school that sets programming (coding) as mandatory subject.
http://www.castalia.co.jp/
【For more information and interview requests, please contact : Castalia Co., Ltd.】
Email: info [AT] castalia.co.jp (When you contact us, convert [AT] into at sign.)
“Innovation Arabia 9” is an international conference held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and President of HBMSU (Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University), which focuses on technology-based innovation in the entire Arab world. This year, various presentations were made in three fields, namely “Smart Learning Excellence”, “Quality and Business Management”, and “Health and Environment”.
As with last year, Castalia had been selected the sole presenter from Japan. CEO Satoshi Yamawaki and Consultant Atsushi Inutsuka made a joint presentation with Mr. Nicola Paravati, Communication Director of International Relations, UniNettuno.
Castalia’s CEO Yamawaki (right) making joint presentation with Mr. Paravati (left)In this feasibility study entitled “Mobile learning: A one year Italo-Japanese collaboration: Best digital learning practices to go forward social learning in Middle-East and North Africa”, lectures and learning materials on subjects such as object-oriented programs in the computer science field were uploaded on Goocus, a mobile learning platform developed by Castalia. Through the learning experiences on such contents of engineering major students based in the target regions, we analyzed the differences of learning experiences and learning histories between mobile learning and conventional PC-based online learning. The presentation also referred to further joint plans to expand the target regions.
■Innovation Arabia 9
http://www.innovationarabia.ae/
■About Goocus
Goocus is the mobile learning platform developed by Castalia. The principal axis of its development is on the “continuity of learning” mainly on smartphones. In pursuit of “social learning”, the “visualization of learning”, and “gamification”, we research on how to make the learning experience a day-to-day process.
https://www.gooc.us/
■Università telematica internazionale "UniNettuno”
The International Telematic University (UniNettuno) is a private online university founded in 2005 and headquartered in Rome, Italy. It was established by the decree of Italy in 2005 as the communication and broadcasting-based university dedicated to distant learning, as part of the educational measures in the European Union to provide higher education mainly in the Mediterranean coastal regions. Lectures are offered not only in Italian but also in English, French, Arabic, Greek, and Portuguese.
http://www.uninettunouniversity.net/
■About Castalia Co., Ltd.
Castalia Co., Ltd. is a company that reinvents learning under the slogan of “find solutions to social problems with the fusion of education and IT”. We develop mobile learning platform “Goocus” and supply it to corporations and educational institutions. In addition, we collaborate with Shingakukai, an educational conglomerate that operates mainly in Nagano Prefecture, for the curriculum design at Code Academy High School ( http://code.ac.jp ), Japan’s first extensive correspondence high school that sets programming (coding) as mandatory subject.
http://www.castalia.co.jp/
【For more information and interview requests, please contact : Castalia Co., Ltd.】
Email: info [AT] castalia.co.jp (When you contact us, convert [AT] into at sign.)