Digital Hollywood Launches Comprehensive High School Education Support Service Compatible with MEXT's "N-E.X.T. High School Concept"
Digital Hollywood starts a comprehensive support service for high schools aligned with MEXT's "N-E.X.T. High School Concept", integrating IT and inquiry-based learning in partnership with Benesse.
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Digital Hollywood Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO: Masanori Fujii, President of the University: Tomoyuki Sugiyama), which operates schools, universities, and graduate schools for training IT-related and digital content personnel, will start offering a new comprehensive support service for high school education corresponding to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's (MEXT) "N-E.X.T. High School Concept (High School Education Reform Promotion Project for Industrial Innovation Talent Development, etc.)", based on the initiatives of the "High School DX Acceleration Promotion Project (DX High School)" aimed at creating next-generation high school education models.
This service evolves the conventional educational support that connects "inquiry-based learning" and "information technology education" to realize the following in a unified manner:
1. Cultivation of talent capable of on-site implementation (Advanced Essential Workers)
2. Cultivation of cross-disciplinary talent eyeing higher education, such as those conducting research and implementation by posing and solving questions themselves
3. Development of an educational infrastructure supporting diverse learning
4. Construction of a sustainable support system where teachers and regions can operate autonomously
It is an educational support service corresponding to the N-E.X.T. High School era.
Fusing Digital Hollywood's digital talent development and Benesse Corporation's high school educational support know-how, the service provides comprehensive support from planning to operation and deployment, in addition to material provision, class design support, teacher training, and visualization/dissemination of results, thereby supporting the realization of continuous educational reform in school sites and boards of education.
■ High School Education Reform Progressing from DX High School to N-E.X.T. High School Concept
In high school education, based on the direction of high school education reform indicated by MEXT, the cultivation of qualities/abilities and the enrichment of inquiry-based learning are required. In recent years, triggered by the "High School DX Acceleration Promotion Project (DX High School)," the development of ICT environments and the enrichment of IT education have progressed.
On the other hand, challenges have also become apparent, such as:
- Information education and inquiry activities are divided.
- Learning is not connected to solving social issues.
- It relies heavily on individual teachers, making sustainable operation difficult.
Against this background, the "N-E.X.T. High School Concept" emphasizes the cultivation of talent responsible for value creation in regional and industrial fields, and the regional deployment (spillover) of education.
■ Structural Challenges Towards Cultivating Problem-Solving Talent
From the advanced initiatives nationwide and practices in educational settings that our company is involved in, several structural challenges have been pointed out. That is, in cultivating the ability of students to proactively face regional and social issues and think/practice towards solving them, the processes of data utilization, hypothesis verification, and implementation are not sufficiently connected with the utilization of information technology, leading to cases where the learned knowledge and skills are not utilized in actual problem-solving.
Also, class design and practice tend to rely on the competence of individual teachers, preventing the construction of a system that can be implemented continuously as a whole school, and there is also the issue that results remain localized and are hard to spread within the region.
■ Features of This Service
To address these challenges, this service provides a "comprehensive support model" that goes beyond mere material provision. It corresponds to the three typologies of the "N-E.X.T. High School Concept".
This service evolves the conventional educational support that connects "inquiry-based learning" and "information technology education" to realize the following in a unified manner:
1. Cultivation of talent capable of on-site implementation (Advanced Essential Workers)
2. Cultivation of cross-disciplinary talent eyeing higher education, such as those conducting research and implementation by posing and solving questions themselves
3. Development of an educational infrastructure supporting diverse learning
4. Construction of a sustainable support system where teachers and regions can operate autonomously
It is an educational support service corresponding to the N-E.X.T. High School era.
Fusing Digital Hollywood's digital talent development and Benesse Corporation's high school educational support know-how, the service provides comprehensive support from planning to operation and deployment, in addition to material provision, class design support, teacher training, and visualization/dissemination of results, thereby supporting the realization of continuous educational reform in school sites and boards of education.
■ High School Education Reform Progressing from DX High School to N-E.X.T. High School Concept
In high school education, based on the direction of high school education reform indicated by MEXT, the cultivation of qualities/abilities and the enrichment of inquiry-based learning are required. In recent years, triggered by the "High School DX Acceleration Promotion Project (DX High School)," the development of ICT environments and the enrichment of IT education have progressed.
On the other hand, challenges have also become apparent, such as:
- Information education and inquiry activities are divided.
- Learning is not connected to solving social issues.
- It relies heavily on individual teachers, making sustainable operation difficult.
Against this background, the "N-E.X.T. High School Concept" emphasizes the cultivation of talent responsible for value creation in regional and industrial fields, and the regional deployment (spillover) of education.
■ Structural Challenges Towards Cultivating Problem-Solving Talent
From the advanced initiatives nationwide and practices in educational settings that our company is involved in, several structural challenges have been pointed out. That is, in cultivating the ability of students to proactively face regional and social issues and think/practice towards solving them, the processes of data utilization, hypothesis verification, and implementation are not sufficiently connected with the utilization of information technology, leading to cases where the learned knowledge and skills are not utilized in actual problem-solving.
Also, class design and practice tend to rely on the competence of individual teachers, preventing the construction of a system that can be implemented continuously as a whole school, and there is also the issue that results remain localized and are hard to spread within the region.
■ Features of This Service
To address these challenges, this service provides a "comprehensive support model" that goes beyond mere material provision. It corresponds to the three typologies of the "N-E.X.T. High School Concept".