Characteristics and Trends of FD and Educational Information Technology Training in Japanese Universities

Good educational information technology training is an important guarantee for the development of education. As a developed country of education, Japan has many excellent achievements in the field of faculty development (FD). In order to further improve the development level of faculty development, we put our research attention on characteristics and trends of faculty development in Japanese Universities through reviewing the historical development of Japanese faculty development and by means of literature review. As a result, we made a detailed study on the historical context, characteristics and trend of Japanese faculty development.