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Castalia participated in Learning Without Frontiers 2012, world's leading-edge educational conference Presentation and demonstration of "Mobile learning in the tsunami disaster area " with KDDI
Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan: Castalia Co. Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan / Representative Director: Satoshi Yamawaki) participated in Learning Without Frontiers 2012 that was held in London, United Kingdom, on January 25 and 26, and made a presentation of "Mobile learning in the tsunami disaster area" as well as a demonstration of our social/mobile learning platforms with KDDI, one of the biggest mobile carriers in Japan.
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Services
iUniv
iUniv is a social learning platform that utilizes over 67,000 visual and auditory educational contents provided online by institutions such as universities. It offers a social learning method based on mutual utilization of knowledge generated by learning experiences between the users. iUniv aims to make the individuals' autonomous learning accessible.
Schooly
Schooly realized a hybrid educational environment where lectures at real-life classrooms can correspond to mobile devices such as tablets, as well as social communications within the classrooms by way of cloud computing. It is the best solution to the "reestablishment of learning" and to construct a "non-stop learning" educational framework.
Business Activities
Social Learning
Castalia’s initiates “learning social” by such contributions as the fusen, or digital stickies for video and audio content that promotes note-taking and sharing in a community based online setting. The Openclass welcomes all marketers, while the CloseClass allows access control suits purposes of training. OpenCourseware is used by Universities to deliver lectures as contents.
IT&Creative
Presuming its assets in contents production, Castalia exhibits its expertise in building strategies and creative of websites and contents.
Company Profile
| Company Name | Castalia Co. Ltd. |
|---|---|
| Address | 10F DF Building, 2-2-8 Minami Aoyama, Tokyo 107-0062 |
| Telephone | +81-3-3401-4191 |
| Established | November 2005 |
| Capital | 43.25 million JPY |
| Representative Director | Satoshi Yamawaki |
| Line of Business | Internet based, Educational/Learning tool production and creation of contents related. |
| Contact | info[at]castalia.co.jp |
Team Castalia
Satoshi Yamawaki
Born in Japan. Studied PR in Baruch college (NY). After worked for media industry in US, founded IT companies
Taro Matsumura
Journalist, Researcher of KEIO Research Institute at SFC and lecturer. Main area: Mobile communication and social learning.
Yasutaka Kageyama
Graduated from F.I.T.(NY). Award: adfest lotus roots (2009), Tokyo Interactive Ad Award (2009).
Takahiro Yamazaki
Graduated from New York Graduate School (MA). Worked for the publishing industry.
Toru Mori
Editor and media director. Graduated Aoyama Gakuin Univ., started career with Japanese publisher and media industry. Targeted area : luxury brand, car and life gadgets.
Yoshihisa Murasawa
Research Professor, Tokyo University
Ichiya Nacamura
Professor, Keio University Graduate School of Media Design
Yoshimi Fukuhara
Professor, Keio University Graduate School of Media Design
Nobuyuki Hayashi
Jounalist, IT