Support System Developed for a Beginner's Design of Blended Learning Courses and Its Use Evaluation

In recent years, as e-learning has become increa singly common, blended learning has become widespread. Using this teaching method, lectures and e-learning are combined in higher education ins titutions such as universities. E-learning will tend to be used more in the future. Therefore, blended learning is also highly likely to be widely used and to become more popular. To popularize it further, we dev eloped a support system to enable even a beginner to design blended learning courses. The system includes a function to design blended learning, a function to make distributed document and a function for browsing samples. The first function includes both a lesson-plan-making function and a lesson-development-making function. Using the former, a user can produce weekly plans. Using the latter, a user can produce individual lesson plans. This paper reports the support system for the design of blended learning courses. We had users reply a questionnaire and performed the evaluation.