The Development of Innovative Blended Learning System Using Manga to Improve the Cross Cultural Communication

We have been developing the innovative e-learning system using Manga for international students. We have blended a variety of learning events and have built up the original training method of the cross-cultural communication to cultivate mindset and skillset. We have solved the several problems of existing teaching materials to learn the cross cultural communication. And we have evaluated the effect of the learning system. After learning several courses on our e-learning system, each international student had a test to check the ability of the cross cultural communication. By analyzing a lot of feedback from our users who are international students and educational institutions, we were able to confirm that we had solved the several problems of existing teaching materials. And, we were able to confirm the learning effectiveness of our e-learning by comparing the international students who had learned with the ones who had not learned. We describe the result that we have investigated the effectiveness of the e-learning system for international students to learn cross-cultural understanding through Japanese domestic business manner.