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Digital Agency, in cooperation with Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, is promoting educational digital transformation (DX). Through educational DX, we aim to realize a "society where anyone can learn in their own way, from anywhere and anytime," by reducing the burden on faculty and staff, developing a learning environment for diverse learning, and improving the quality of education through the utilization of educational data.
This section introduces the policies of the government as a whole and Digital Agency's efforts, outcomes, and examples.
Table of Contents
- What is Education DX?
- Government-Wide Efforts (Educational DX Roadmap)
- Efforts in Digital Agency
- Results and Implementation of Educational DX
- Case Studies
- Reference Information
What is Education DX?
School education in Japan aims to be an environment that can include children with diverse personalities, characteristics, and backgrounds, and efforts are required to enable these children to self-adjust their learning according to their individual situations.
It is also necessary to reduce the workload of teaching staff by using digital technology to create "white space" for teachers to be close to each student.
In order to realize a "society where anyone can learn in their own way, anytime, anywhere, with anyone" for all children, the government as a whole has formulated an Education DX Roadmap and is promoting education DX.
Government-Wide Efforts (Educational DX Roadmap)
The Education DX Roadmap organizes blueprints (future concepts and plans) and timetables for promoting measures in cooperation with Digital Agency, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. In the Education DX Roadmap, related measures are organized under the following five axes.
- Reducing the Burden on School Personnel through digitalization
- Development of a learning environment for diverse learning
- Enhancing Learners' Self-Understanding and Teachers' Perspectives through Data
- Development of an environment where data from learning can be utilized throughout one's life
- Using educational data for research purposes that also contribute to educational policy and practice
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Please refer to the following for the background of the formulation.
Efforts in Digital Agency
As the control tower of the digital society, Digital Agency coordinated the formulation of the educational digital transformation roadmap.
In addition, in order to realize the society aimed at through educational digital transformation, we are conducting research and studies that will reduce the burden on faculty and staff members through the digitalization and working to create environments where they can make use of their learning data throughout their lives.
Digital Agency's Initiatives in the Roadmap
- Digitalization for high school entrance exam administration
- In order to reduce the burden on faculty and staff, we are demonstrating full digitalization of the entrance examination procedure and supporting the nationwide deployment of the results in order to eliminate the need for paper and duplicate input for high school entrance examinations.
- Interconnection of educational digital services
- To improve learners' self-understanding and teachers' supervision, we are working to create an environment in which data can be shared safely and efficiently while reducing the time and effort required to input information by connecting schools, boards of education, learning apps, and other systems using standardized standards.
- aims to solve the burden of "account management" in schools across industries (Digital Agency official note)
- Ensuring the authenticity of subjects and data
- In order to develop environments in which learning data can be utilized throughout life, we are conducting demonstrations to develop an educational authentication infrastructure (a system that can appropriately exchange data) that can prove and collaborate with the safe and secure on learning history, including "who learned what."
Education DX Service Map
This is a list of useful services for educators and school officials who are promoting the use of ICT in schools. We are also accepting additional registrations of service providers.
Public call Information
Digital Agency is conducting public call for participation in demonstration projects and surveys and research. Please check if you are considering participating.
- *We do not currently have public call information available. We will post it when the public call begins.
Results and Implementation of Educational DX
It summarizes the results of Digital Agency's projects so far and the implementation status of educational digital transformation nationwide.
Business performance
It summarizes the results of annual surveys, research, and demonstration projects conducted by Digital Agency.
- Results of Educational Activities in Fiscal 2025
- Results of Educational Activities in Fiscal 2024
- Results of Educational Activities in Fiscal 2023
- Results of Educational Activities in Fiscal 2022
Dashboard
The results of the survey by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology are used to visualize the status of efforts nationwide in graphs and maps. Please use it to grasp the status of each region and local government.
- School Affairs DX Initiatives Dashboard
- You can compare the status of school affairs DX in each local government, such as the digitalization of contact between teachers and parents / guardians / students.
- School Work Style Reform Dashboard
- You can check the status of efforts for each of the "three categories of work of schools and teachers," which classify the work that schools and teachers have been responsible for, and the status of efforts by local governments.
- High School Admissions Administrative Procedures digitalization Dashboard
- You can compare the status of digitalization's efforts in the administrative procedures for high school entrance selection of each prefecture at a list.
Case Studies
Articles and video introduce initiatives in which Digital Agency is involved and examples of educational digital transformation at schools and local governments nationwide.
- To realize a "society where people can learn in their own way" through educational digital transformation. Current faculty members propose a plan to use codes for learning content (Digital Agency News)
- A scene from a Ideathon in which current faculty and staff members proposed ideas for the use of the Courses of Study Code is introduced.
- Educational digital transformation to a society where everyone can learn in their own way (Digital Agency News)
- The demonstration project at Yawata Elementary School in Kagoshima City is introduced with the voices of children and teachers.