Noriko Arai received her doctoral degree in science from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1998.
Her research interests are mathematical logic, math education and computer supported collaborative learning, and she has been serving as program committee members in many international conferences in these research areas.
As the director of the center of Research Center for Community Knowledge at National Institute of Informatics (Japan), she is leading the two projects, Netcommons Project and Researchmap Project.
NetCommons is the most popular content management system used in Japanese schools. More than 2,500 schools are now using NetCommons as their homepages or groupwares.
Public Understanding Promotion Category, Prizes for Science and Technology, the Commendation for Science and Technology, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Oct 2009
Japan Open Source Software Award, Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan
Dec 2008
Nistep Award, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy
Oct 2007
The winner of the 3rd International Software Competition (Beijing), IASTED
Proceedings of the 13th IASTED conferenece on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE2010), selected among three best papers at CATE2010 166-171 Aug 2010 [Refereed]
Our project team launched a new web service, Researchmap. Researchmap is an information sharing platform for the researchers. By unifying the data of researchers, such as academic literature and conference talks, Researchmap supports researchers to build their own portal sites instantly, and to start collaboration with other researchers. The user of Researchmap obtains three virtual spaces of t...
Proceedings of the 13th IASTED conferenece on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education 69-76 Aug 2010 [Refereed]
The purpose of this study is to propose a way to develop logical thinking ability of the students that is feasible in class at ordinary schools. E-kyoshitsu, an online learning community centered on an electronic bulletin board system, promotes the method for students to increase their experience to write mathematical statements while being given advice by the mathematicians. This method has al...
Proceedings of the 13th IASTED conferenece on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE2010) 110-117 Aug 2010 [Refereed]
We describe our training method for educating children in information skills they need for living in the Web2.0 society. We defined an information and communication technology (ICT) standard for K-12 students and developed two incremental training methods to meet this standard. The particular skills we evaluated were information conveying skills. The training method has two unique points. First...
Proceedings of the 9th IASTED International Conference on Web-based Education (WBE2010) 199-203 Mar 2010 [Refereed]
The purpose of computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is to support students collaboration through their interaction and sharing of information. Since interaction and information sharing are prerequisites to student collaborations, we need to implement functions and an interface that will enhance these aspects. We have set up a web site for collaborative learning using NetCommons. Net...
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