In an industry-academia collaboration project with Suzuka University of Medical Science, which supports students in passing medical qualifications.

learningBOX Inc. is pleased to announce that ous industry-university collaborative project with Suzuka University of Medical Science to help students pass medical qualifications has won both the "the Japan Medical e-learning Association Chairman's Award" at the Japan e-Learning Awards and the 1EdTech Japan the "Excellence Award".

About the Japan e-Learning Awards

The Japan e-Learning Awards is an award that recognizes particularly outstanding entries of innovative e-learning technologies, content, and applications in Japan and the world. The Japan e-Learning Awards is an unique among education-themed awards in that four ministerial awards are given by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and they attract a great deal of attention every year.
■ http://www.elearningawards.jp/index.html

About the 1EdTech Japan Award

The award is modeled after the internationally acclaimed Learning Impact Award (LIA) of the 1EdTech Consortium, Inc. (formerly the IMS Global Learning Consortium) and recognizes outstanding challenges that have made a significant contribution to the use of technology in education. The award will be given to a work or practice that has realized the digital transformation (DX) of education and learning, or contributed to the diffusion of 1EdTech technology standards in Japan.
■ https://www.1edtechjapan.org/1edtech-japan-award

Background of the two awards

Currently, the environment surrounding medical qualifications is facing a variety of challenges, including "declining birthrates," "labor shortages," "rising education costs," "intensifying competition to secure students for examinations," and "problems with students being released from schools. In particular, for the national medical examinations, there is an urgent need to improve the learning environment for students taking the examinations, and the conventional learning environment confined to the campus has made external collaboration and cooperation difficult.

In addition, when a system is introduced as a new learning environment, it is generally introduced as a set with pre-existing educational material content, making it difficult to reflect the uniqueness and independence of each university. As a result, co-creation and information dissemination among universities has not progressed, and learning opportunities have been limited.

Outline of Industry-Academia Collaboration Project with Suzuka University of Medical Science

To solve the current problem, Suzuka University of Medical Science and our company have launched a project that aims to provide past medical national exam questions on an e-learning system to enhance teaching materials and support students in passing clinical engineering and other medical qualifications.
The project aims to promote co-creation among universities and build a community that supports learners and those involved in healthcare. This will enable students preparing for the national medical examinations to study spontaneously in a higher quality learning environment and receive support to pass the examinations.

Outcome of Efforts

In this effort, we verified the feasibility of an e-learning system with standard specifications and identified operational issues and challenges. We also laid the groundwork for clarifying future development and operation policies. In particular, the project was highly evaluated for its efforts to strengthen internal and external collaboration, and to look ahead to the establishment of a system that would allow each university to utilize its own educational materials while sharing information from both sides on a common platform.
In addition, the e-learning system "learningBOX" was also enhanced to study an environment that allows students to learn more efficiently, which is expected to improve student learning efficiency and contribute to a higher exam pass rate.

Future Outlook

Suzuka University of Medical Science and MHI signed a memorandum of understanding on industry-academia cooperation in November 2022, and are engaged in various other initiatives.
■ https://learningbox.online/en/casestudy/casestudy20240129/

In response to this award, the industry-academia collaboration project with Suzuka University of Medical Science plans to further strengthen ties with more universities and educational institutions to promote the use of e-learning systems to support students taking the national medical examinations.

Furthermore, we will work to develop systems to support the passing of examinations and qualifications that can be applied in other fields, aiming to contribute to improving the "quality of learning" in society as a whole.

Suzuka University of Medical Science

It was the first four-year medical university established in Japan in 1991. It was initially a small university with two faculties and four departments, but has now become a medical and welfare university with four faculties, eleven departments, and fifteen majors. Based on the founding spirit of making the progress of "science and technology truly useful for the improvement of human welfare and health," the university nurtures specialists in medicine and welfare who combine intelligence and humanity.
URL:.https://www.suzuka-u.ac.jp/