A paper by five faculty members, including a member of the Musashino University Smart Intelligence Center (MUSIC) Tamaru Eriko Center, received the "Excellent Presentation Award" at the "Information Processing Society of Japan Information Education Symposium (SSS5) *".

 At Musashino University, from 2020 students, "All AI" will make AI courses compulsory for all students regardless of literacy, and "BYOD (Bring Your Own)" will use mobile terminals owned by students and educational institutions for learning. Device) Campus ”started.Furthermore, from 2021 students, in addition to each major, we are planning to establish a new AI utilization expert course (tentative name) that allows you to take elective AI courses as a minor (minor major).

 MUSIC was established in January 2019 as an organization that promotes such advanced information education.All students learn the basic knowledge of AI, enable learning that suits them anytime, anywhere, and aim to realize "AI-Ready-University".

 The title of the dissertation by five MUSIC faculty members who received the Excellent Presentation Award this time is "Efforts of a help desk to support online classes at Musashino University and evaluation based on operational data -Expansion from BYOD to online class support-".In 5, when the shift to online classes was urgently needed due to the prevention of the spread of the new coronavirus infection, the MUSIC help desk, information courses, and related departments worked together to understand how BYOD and online students' learning was supported. It was clarified based on various data.

 As a concrete initiative, various media are arranged in multiple stages, a mechanism to improve the promptness and resolution rate of inquiries based on real-time data analysis, and a support system with a small number of students for more than 1 students. It was mentioned that the support of 1,000 teachers could be realized.

 The experience based on the data acquired through such cutting-edge activities by BYOD and help desk management that has been carried out in advance at Musashino University is highly evaluated, and it is given to 40 out of 3 applicants. Received the "Announcement Award".Musashino University will continue to provide advanced information education and environment as "AI-Ready-University" based on MUSIC.

* The Information Processing Society of Japan Information Education Symposium is one of the most active academic societies in terms of utilizing IT for education. This was the 2020nd time in 22, and many schools had no choice but to work online in a hurry to deal with the new coronavirus, so it was strongly requested to announce practical examples of efforts.

Reference: [NEW SCAST] The cutting-edge online lessons and support system are highly evaluated!MUSIC Paper Receives "Excellent Presentation Award" at IPSJ SSS2020

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