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- Title
Oracle and JAPIAS promote ThinkQuest.
- Abstract
The article reports on the agreement between the Japan Association for Promotion of Internet Application in School Education (JAPIAS) and the Oracle Education Foundation to promote and support "ThinkQuest" in Japan. Through ThinkQuest, teams of students from around the world collaborate to create educational web sites. ThinkQuest competitions are held twice a year, and competing teams have approximately six months to complete their projects. The web sites must meet demanding criteria that focus on collaboration and teamwork, community and global connections, content and design, educational value and technical performance. JAPIAS is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote utilization of the Internet in schools and to create a new educational environment, to contribute to the development of the human resources in Japan and throughout the world. The ThinkQuest "Japan Program Promotion Committee" was established in 1998. The committee, which evolved to JAPIAS in 2003, has been promoting and supporting both the ThinkQuest international competition and the Japanese-based local program.
- Subjects
JAPAN; INTERNET in education; ECONOMIC competition; WEB development; NONPROFIT organizations; STUDENTS
- Publication
TechTrends: Linking Research & Practice to Improve Learning, 2004, Vol 48, Issue 5, p77
- ISSN
8756-3894
- Publication type
Article