[3B] (04) Academia-industrial cooperation and cooperative education

[3B21] Report on the Use of a Newspaper-Based Self-Learning Material

Attempt to improve reading comprehension toward broadening students’ perspective

○Takashi UCHIDA¹, Kumiko TSUKAGOSHI¹, Katsumi MIYAMA², Hiroshi KITAGAWA², Takashi KAJIYA³, Kyoko TSUKAZAKI³ (1. Hokkaido University of Science, Faculty of General Education, 2. Hokkaido University of Science, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 3. Hokkaido University of Science, Faculty of Future Design, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences)

Keywords:Newspaper-based learning material, Self-learning, Reading comprehension

We report the result of utilizing a newspaper-based commercial self-learning material which we embedded into the online educational support system "Moodle", with the purpose of improving students' reading comprehension and broadening their social perspective.