What’s Balance de Ocean ?

    “Balance de Ocean” is an educational program that aims to cultivate future marine scientists. The program provides conventional classroom lectures and practical training, as well as online materials for reinforcement and enrichment, and to help students establish and develop their understanding of the ocean. The program also aims to contribute to the internationalization of the university through use of the online format.

    To promote sustainable programs when resources are limited, universities must balance research and education. The program name “Balance de Ocean” reflects the importance of this balance in marine science. As the program develops, it will build an educational system that allows students to freely navigate the “oceans” of different research fields.

    Specifically, we are developing online teaching materials using the Moodle learning platform, which will make them available worldwide via the Internet. This will allow people in Japan and around the world who want to study the ocean to pursue this interest. Current students at the university as well as those who wish to become students in the future can pursue independent study and research activities that transcend the limitations of place and time and grow beyond the barriers of discipline and class year. We seek excellent minds to grow together and educate, thereby paving the way for Hokkaido University students to contribute to the cultivation of a better society.

    The Moodle system, named after “Learning and Study by Balance de Ocean System” (LASBOS), is called “LASBOS Moodle”.

    Balance de Ocean offers a variety of online educational material in several languages ranging from undergraduate introductory courses to experiments, practical training, professional education, and frontline research. You can freely navigate an “ocean” of educational material to help you deepen your knowledge of sustainable fisheries sciences and forge a path through research and initiatives to help solve the problems we now face.

TAKAGI Yasuaki, Dean