Japanese
Environment for Accessing Network
The foremost factor on which the success/insuccess of the "online class" depends is the environment of network access. It is the most important that students are always close to terminal machines. In particular, a sufficient number of terminals should be prepared. The best is such that a sufficient number of terminals are set in lobbies and libraries of the campus.
As is often said, "it is the worst to keep the computer room under lock and key". But it is our existing state that, because we have only a small number of computers, we are obliged to allow students to use machines-for-our-research as network terminals. We are afraid that the resources in those machines are destroyed. So, we are apt to manage the general use.
Indeed, before the informationalization of education we must clear the problem of completing the environment of network access, that is, keeping a enough space for the terminals in the rather small site of the campus, preparing a sufficient number of computers, and accordingly upgrading the LAN network, etc. But it is the saving that this problem is not of the technology but simply of the money.