An Improvement of Instructional Methods for Nutrition Education

Most of nutrition education course in colleges and universities provides a license of nutrition specialist in Japan. Even such course, students must to get credits on practice of operations of information equipment including personal computer, presentation device and several other machines, because educational issue in Japan´s law sets as complementary lectures for students to graduate and to get the license. After graduation, students sometimes advise nutritional issues for people as a specialist using information devices. Generally, in university, student learns the way how he/she can effectively present with group discussion. However, the weak point of group study includes that some students do not have any motivations of allocated roles. The problem is often pointed out by staffs in job office, including food factory, restaurant in school and medical centers. To solve the problem, we propose a new teaching method by using information devices and a method to make students enhance their motivation to study.