This study was undertaken to develop web-based nutrition information contents for the older adults. Twenty six domestic web-sites were analyzed and then 12 foreign web-sites and 4 education materials for the elderly of foreign university were benchmarked. Also a lot of literatures on elderly education program were reviewed. A card-sorting task was performed with 8 older adults to ascertain how the target audience organized information about nutrition. The results were as fellows. Among 26 domestic web-sites, 2 sites(7.7%) were only for the elderly. Main topics of information contents for the elderly included 'Importance of Healthy Eating', 'DRI', 'Dietary Guidelines'. Four of twelve foreign web-sites were for the elderly nutrition education. Topics of 'Dietary Guideline', 'Meal Program' were found in 4 sites and 'Importance of Healthy Eating', 'Diet & Disease', 'DRI, 'Food Guide Pyramid', 'Nutrition Fact Labels' were found in 3 sites. Education materials of foreign university dealt with basic information on 'nutrient needs changes related with aging', 'Heart & Bone Healthy Eating Plan', 'Food Guide Pyramid'. Also topics on 'Eating on a budget', 'Eating Out Guideline' were included for practical use for the elderly. Based on card-sorting process, contents framework for web-site was developed and 4 main menus for framework were respectively named as 'Nutrition', 'Meals', 'Foods'. 'Check up Nutritional Health' by panel discussion. Finally we developed nutrition information contents for 4 main menus. We focused on helping older adults recognize the importance of healthy eating and apply the nutrition information to practical use. We expect that the developed framework of contents can be a guideline for indentifying the information needs of older adults in developing effective nutrition intervention program. And we suggest that the survey for target people should be peformed for the web-site to be user-friendly designed and the developed contents be evaluated and revised in the near future.

The contents of articles on nutrition in life cycle, health and disease in the Korean daily newspapers were analyzed for the evaluation of the trends in nutrition information in mass media. Among 922 articles pressed from January 1960 to June 1996, articles on nutrition in life cycle were most frequently appeared, which is followed by articles on nutrition in disease, health foods and other related food and nutrition informations. There was a deep contrast in that the proportion of articles on nutrition in life clyle decreased from 58% in the 60's to 33% in the 90's, and those of nutrition in disease, and health foods increased from 23% and 5% in 60's to 34% and 18% in 90's, respectively.

현재 초등학교의 정보 교과서는 시⋅도별로 학습 내용과 구성 체계가 일관적이지 않고 학습자의 발달 특성에 대한 고려가 부족하다. 이에 본 연구는 초등학생의 발달 특성을 고려하여 정보 교과서의 내용을 효과적으로 구성할 수 있는 방안을 제시하는데 목적을 두었다. 이를 위해 문헌 고찰을 통해 교과서 내용 구성의 기본 방향을 정립하고, 초등학생의 발달 특성에 따라 내용 구성 시 고려해야 할 요소를 선정하였다. 그리고 초등학교 정보 교과의 내용을 분석하여 개념학습형, 문제해결형, 활용형, 정보윤리형의 네 유형으로 분류하고, 초등학생의 발달 특성을 반영한 각 유형별 내용 구성 방안을 제시하였다. 본 연구에서 제안한 내용별 유형과 각 유형별 내용 구성 방안은 향후 초등학생의 발달 특성을 고려한 정보 교과서 개발의 지표로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.