'Two Way or Go Away': Development of DPP (Digital Presentation Platform) Which Supports to Make a College Teachers Get Two-Way Communication Classroom as a Facilitators

“Two Way or Go Away”: If your class isn’t a two-way classroom, then you have to go away from your classroom. This gentle call to veteran educators at the university level is the gist of changing the old-style one-way lecturing classroom to a two-way communication venue. The authors developed and started operation of the Digital Presentation Platform (DPP) to serve as the development principle for achieving this call. The DPP has the following three functions: 1) Response Analyzer, 2) Learning Management System (LMS), and 3) Distance Education. In this paper, we report on the Response Analyzer, the core function of the DPP, in terms of its educational function, types and examples of questions, and its effects of some trials. The Response Analyzer is a method for supporting the revitalization of classes required by Japanese higher education in particular: in other words, strengthening the conversion of one-way knowledge-presentation based lectures into two-way discussion-based formats in which students actively participate. The Response Analyzer is very effective in transforming university faculty members, the “teachers” for whom such one-way lectures are the norm, into “facilitators” who can work with the students through two-way communication to lead them towards a network space information world.