“Eduinformatics”: A new education field promotion

Eduinformatics 1)2)3) 4) 5) 6) 6) Raphael-Joel Wei LIM 3)5) 1) SummaryKobe Tokiwa University is currently performing university reform.To address many pressing and important problems of university reform, we had, over the past three years, determined research questions about these problems and resolved each of them when a problem presented itself, publishing our findings as reports or presenting in meetings.Before we began this research, we thought that there were no relationships between our studies.In this study, we reflect on our research during the last three years.Looking back, we discovered that we can classify our research into six groups by context analysis: group 1: university reform and collaboration between academic faculty and administrative staff, group 2:proposal of novel knowledge-creation models, group 3: novel visualization methods for education, group 4: information and communication technology for education, group 5: evidence-based education, group 6: first-year experience.More abstractly, our research can provide basis for a novel interdisciplinary concept, which we call eduinformatics.Based on this research, we propose changes to higher education that will result in increased quality of learning and teaching.