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Why Manaba?

manaba is much more than just another learning system, it’s the next generation. manaba embodies the joy of learning: empowering teachers to become personal coaches; encouraging students to share with and inspire each other; enabling communities to blossom.

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What's New

  • Press Release: Asahi Net International Acquires the Sakai Division of rSmart

    Asahi Net International Acquires the Sakai Division of rSmart Asahi Net, together with rSmart, to further Sakai’s mission to advance teaching and learning while rSmart to focus on higher education enterprise resource planning with the Kuali Platform (Scottsdale, Ariz. April 11, 2013) – Asahi Net International and rSmart, providers of technology solutions for higher education,…

  • Georgetown University’s East Asia National Resource Center implements manaba

    The East Asia National Resource Center at Georgetown University partnered with the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia to bring exciting new professional development opportunities to K-14 teachers who are interested in expanding their knowledge on Asian history, culture, art, and current events. In Spring 2013, Georgetown University will be hosting a biweekly NCTA professional…

  • See you at the AIEA Annual Conference in New Orleans!

    The manaba team is attending the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) 2013 Annual Conference held at the New Orleans Marriott from February 17-20. In addition to exhibiting manaba in the exhibit hall, we are also presenting our cases of implementing e-Portfolios in international education programs along with prominent scholars from the US and Japan. …

  • SPICE implements manaba for Professional Teacher Training

    SPICE (Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education; Stanford, CA) started using manaba in its professional development workshops offered for local secondary school educators. In an effort to infuse Asian studies in the social studies and literature curricula, SPICE, in cooperation with the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia (NCTA), is offering a series of seminars for…

  • Thank you for joining us at Educause 2012!

    We were delighted to meet you at Educause 2012 in Denver. We enjoyed meeting you at our booth, as well as the many intellectually stimulating sessions during the conference. Throughout the event, we were able to speak with many CIOs of universities around the country and learned so much about their interests in pursuing the…

  • manaba attending NACADA 2012 in Nashville, Tennessee

    It was our third time attending the NACADA annual conference. This time, it was in the heart of Music City: Nashville. We spoke with many academic advisors during the sessions and commission / interest group meetings, and gained many tips and insights on how to make academic advising effective and truly meaningful. It is the…

  • Thank you for joining us at EAIE 2012 in Dublin!

    It was wonderful to meet you at the EAIE annual conference in Dublin! The manaba team exhibited at the JAFSA stand along with 7 Japanese universities and enjoyed meeting with passionate international educators from all around the world. With them, we discussed the vast potential that international education can bring to students’ learning experience and…

  • manaba implemented for professional development at CUNY Child Care Centers

    manaba, a cloud-based collaborative learning system developed and managed by ASAHI Net, Inc., was implemented by six on-campus child care centers at the City University of New York (New York, NY). The CUNY child care programs serve students and their children by offering them quality early childhood education in diverse social settings and supports the…

  • SPICE manaba launched for empowering teachers to teach about Japan

    In August 2012, ASAHI Net, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) – the developer of manaba – and the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) (Stanford, CA) launched the SPICE manaba project which offers an online curriculum called “An Interpretive History of Japan: Paradoxes in a Nation’s History”. Click SPICE An Interpretive History of Japan to access…

Rave Reviews

  • The results of mutual reviews on manaba were outstanding. The students produced surprisingly high quality papers. That is what I feel is the real ‘manaba effect’.

    Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi, Harvard Business School

  • Participants had different experiences when they held discussions in a physical setting versus when they were in the virtual space of manaba. By providing two different locations for them to communicate, participants’ ties grew even stronger.

    Professor Grant R. Pogosyan, International Christian University

  • manaba gives a central location where information can live. It brings everyone into the same space and adds context: it isn’t just a moment in time, but it is also a part of an ongoing conversation.

    Ms. Jeanne Lovy, Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston

  • manaba brings faculty and students closer together and enables them to walk along the path of students’ learning.

    Professor Shigeru Takayama, Ritsumeikan University

  • manaba provides a place for students to communicate without limitations of space and time – they “resonate” with each other on this platform.

    Professor Masaharu Kage, Keio University

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Manaba In The Field

  • Harvard Business School

    In his “Knowledge-based Strategy” class at Harvard Business School (HBS), Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi offered an extremely dynamic class using a case method – facilitating discussion using real cases of corporations. The class brought together students both from the Business School and also from other schools. The class required a place for mutual information to be…

  • Keio University

    The goal of Keio University’s Teacher Training Program was to develop the next generation of teachers. The Program believed that the assessments of suitability for a teaching career should be performed not only by the faculty, but by various parties including students, individuals that students meet during their courses, and even the alumni working as…

  • Ritsumeikan University

    Ritsumeikan University’s Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering had a goal of promoting “student-centered learning” by nurturing students’ self-motivation, while making sure that it was easy to identify students who struggled to fulfill graduation requirements and were at risk of dropping out. To achieve these goals, the department decided to implement manaba (they called it…

  • Harvard College Japan Initiative

    H-Lab Summer School Program, co-organized by Harvard College Japan Initiative (HCJI) and Liberal Arts beyond Borders (LAB), is an eight day long liberal arts program held annually in Tokyo. Founded with a mission to foster scholarship and broaden future options of young people, H-Lab introduced Japanese high school students to an enriching experience of liberal…