정보화 시대에 들어서면서 교육 분야에서 가장 활발하게 논의되고 있는 것이 정보통신 기술(Information Communication & Technology, ICT)을 활용한 교육이다. 컴퓨터라는 매체가 교수?학습의 목적으로 활용되어 그 효과 및 효율성에 대해 긍정적, 부정적 논의가 이슈화되었던 초창기와는 달리 이제는 컴퓨터를 활용한 교육환경을 통합적으로 구성하고 설계하여 활용함으로써 컴퓨터가 교수자의 체계적인 교수활동을 돕고 학습자의 개별적, 협동적 학습활동에 매우 긍정적인 도움을 줄 수 있다는 연구들(박현주, 2002; 손희선, 2002; 이미자, 2002; Roblyer, 2003; Roland, 2003)로 관심이 높아지고 있다.
The purpose of this study was analyzing children's art web contents to support the children's art teaching and learning method. To investigate the present state of the children's art web contents inside and outside the country, 100 sites which are served education information of children's art within ranking 5th search engines were searched and the contents in these sites were analyzed. The evaluation tool of children's art web contents was based on ‘Online Preschool Children Learning Website Evaluation Tool' and ‘Evaluation Criterion of Children's Art Web Contents.' According to the type of sites, 80 questions were analyzed by researchers of this study, one of an ICT education expert and one of an art education expert. To analyze the data, frequency, percentage, correlation, multiple response etc. were used. Total tendency of contents in children's art web sites was widely distributed in 4 art education parts, but many sites served ‘Art Appreciation Education Program' both inside and outside the country and ‘Children Gallery' which exhibited children's art works at on-line was much served inside our country. So this result suggested that online is practically much used to appreciate children's art works inside our country. The type of children art learning sites got from 115 points to 200 points(total points equal 200). The top ranking 12th sites got high points in quality of education, suitability, and integration. They were considered to have high quality contents, but besides these sites were thought to be necessary to reinforce the quality of the contents. The type of the materials for teacher sites got from 123 points to 186 points(total points equal 200) and the points were narrowly distributed than a type of children art learning sites. Like ‘CoCo Dream Village' and ‘Art Storm,' some of domestic sites were ranked in 10th. It proved that domestic web contents were as good as foreign web contents in a type of the materials for teacher sites. Within 30th