Educational Innovation Center
About Educational Innovation Center
Message from the Director
The purpose of the Educational Innovation Center is “for faculty and staff to work together to formulate university-wide policies on quality assurance in education and continuous educational improvement, and to promote new educational reform and improvement initiatives; to support and cooperate with individual faculty and staff members striving to enhance their teaching capabilities, as well as with organized Faculty Development (FD) and Staff Development (SD) activities; and to provide learning support and other services to improve students’ academic abilities.” To achieve this purpose, the Center has established the various divisions listed on the right side of this page.
Following the 2008 report on undergraduate education issued by the Central Council for Education, universities were first called upon to transform their teaching at the level of individual classes. Since the 2014 report on the articulation between high school and university education, however, they have also been required to implement curriculum management, which has led to the Guidelines for Educational Academic Management published in 2020. The fourth cycle of institutional certified evaluation and accreditation likewise calls for the assessment and visualization of learning outcomes, along with an organic linkage among improvement cycles at the course level, the degree program level, and the institutional level.
In order to respond swiftly to these demands from society, the Educational Innovation Center aims to support faculty, staff, and organizations both within and beyond the university who are engaged in higher education.
Director, Educational Innovation Center: Nobuhisa Sakakibara
Nobuhisa Sakakibara- 307 Fukasaku, Minuma-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama 337-8570, Japan (4F 4 Building Omiya campus)
E-mail edudvp@ow.shibaura-it.ac.jp