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Portions of this article were presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Anaheim, CA, October 2003. Current issues, including the ongoing project (the E-square Advance project) and reports posted in and after 2003 have been added. The author thanks Teresa K. DeBacker. PhD., and A. Bradshaw, PhD., for their encouragement and support throughout the work, and Socorro Crisolo and Leslie R. Warden, for editing assistance. Thanks, too, to Professor Tadamasa Kimura, who provided valuable and updated information.

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Uchida, H. Information technology-driven education in Japan: Problems and solutions. ETR&D 52, 91–100 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02504679

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