Purpose
- Support the substantial enhancement of public education by shifting the knowledge-centered system to an activity-centered, teaching-learning support system and thus cultivating creative thinking and cooperative problem-solving ability.
Direction
- Re-organize the educational information service based on participation, openness, sharing and cooperation, and reinforce the foundation to share and distribute educational information and facilitate its use through a grand consortium between private and public institutions.
- Systematically Manage teachers’capabilities for ICT-enabled education by establishing a lifelong management system for their teaching/learning experiences and enhancing the field-based use of ICT in education by operating the Cyber Home Learning Service to improve the academic performance of students
Major Tasks
- Setup and operation of EDUNET
- - Upgrade systems to secure, supply, and distribute educational info data
- - Develop and operate user-centered education info services
- - Strengthen the support of creativity and character education for students and expand support for marginalized learners
- Construction and operation of the Cyber Home Learning System
- - Develop and distribute level-specific content for Cyber Home Learning
- - Install LMS/LCMS, next-generation learning management systems, in cities and provinces
- - Distribute and stabilize the diagnosis-and-treatment learning management system and the cyber counseling system
- - Provide monitoring and consulting services for the Cyber Home Learning System in cities and provinces
- Development and distribution of digital textbooks
- - Develop digital textbooks, create appropriate conditions, and analyze the impact of digital textbooks
- - Study field applicability through the operation of pilot schools using digital text books
- Operation of comprehensive information service for teacher training
- - Collect and comprehensively manage the information of public and private teacher training institutions
- - Provide customized information to Teacher Evaluation for Professional Development
- Operation of the distance training support system
- - Launch the Distance Training Support Center at KERIS for the quality assurance of distance education & training centers based on the Regulations of Training for Teachers (President’s executive order)
- - Devise QA guidelines for distance education & training centers and evaluate their management
- - Establish the evaluation system for the establishment, abolition, and accreditation of distance education & training centers and the management system for their operation
