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The Development of Multimedia Courseware of Japanese Culture via<br />

Internet<br />

Introduction<br />

http://www.art.uiuc.edu/tea/<br />

Rumi Tatsuta<br />

Dokkyo University<br />

tatsuta@dokkyo.ac.jp<br />

Kimiko Gunji<br />

University of Ill<strong>in</strong>ois<br />

kimiko@uiuc.edu<br />

Mary Ellen Michael<br />

University of Ill<strong>in</strong>ois<br />

mmichael@uiuc.edu<br />

Many US universities have Japanese Language classes but a few universities have Japanese culture class.<br />

Japanese Tea Ceremony has been taught as a credit course at School of Art and Design, University of Ill<strong>in</strong>ois at<br />

Urbana-Champaign s<strong>in</strong>ce 1965. The enrollment number is limited to 30 students because of the limitations of<br />

facilities and staff. However, the number of students who wish to enroll has <strong>in</strong>creased <strong>in</strong> the last 10years; and<br />

every pre-registration, over 100 students have been request<strong>in</strong>g to enroll <strong>in</strong> this class. In order to meet<br />

overwhelm<strong>in</strong>g requests from students, Professor Gunji who is professor of School of Art and Design , turned<br />

to computer-based <strong>in</strong>struction as a solution. In January 1995, Professor Gunji completed the text of Japanese<br />

Tea Ceremony, collaborat<strong>in</strong>g with Tatsuta who was visit<strong>in</strong>g professor of University of Ill<strong>in</strong>ois and Michael<br />

who is <strong>in</strong> the Educational Technologies Assistance Group(ETAG), Office of Instructional Resources(OIR). We<br />

have used this courseware <strong>in</strong> two classes; (1)East Asian Languages and Culture 150: Introduction to Japanese<br />

Culture (2) Art & Design 209: Tea Ceremony and Zen Aethetics.<br />

Evaluation from students<br />

We have created follow<strong>in</strong>g questionnaire and we got 30 answers; 13students of Art and Design 209, 17<br />

students of East Asian Language and Culture 150.<br />

1) What aspects of the tea ceremony did you learn form the web site?<br />

2) List seven or more Japanese customs and special cultural aspects that you have learned from this web site.<br />

3) List strong aspects of this <strong>format</strong> for the <strong>in</strong>troduction of tea ceremony.<br />

4) Your advice for the improvement of this site will be greatly appreciated.<br />

Phase II project:<br />

1) Explor<strong>in</strong>g and re-design<strong>in</strong>g the <strong>in</strong>terfaces of this courseware<br />

2) Add<strong>in</strong>g another chapter on Tea Aesthetics - Beauty <strong>in</strong> Tea: Wabe-Sabi<br />

3) Translat<strong>in</strong>g the text <strong>in</strong>to Japanese<br />

References<br />

Tatsuta, R. Gunji, K. & Michael, M. E.: Development of Networked Courseware at University of Ill<strong>in</strong>ois and

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