This document discusses e-learning in higher education in Korea. It provides statistics on e-learning market growth and adoption rates in Korean universities. Some of the key challenges discussed are issues of quality assurance, digital divide, and copyright infringement. The document then outlines some of the policies and strategies Korea has implemented to support e-learning, such as the University E-Learning Support Center project and a national e-learning content sharing system. It concludes by emphasizing the role of e-learning in building a lifelong education society and promoting cooperation between industry and academia in Korea.

2. 1. Impacts of technology in HE
2. Challenges
3. Policy Implications
4. Conclusions
Contents

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Source: OECD EAG2008
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OECD Broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants, by technology, June 2008
OECD average
OECD Broadband subscribers per 100 habitants(2008)

5. Status
• Global e-learning market : 23Billion USD (2006)
Europe : 23.6%, North America:19.8%
• Korean e-learning market

6. e-Learning in Higher Education (KOREA)
Level of support for an independent e-Learning
system(2006)
- National universities : 64% , Private universities : 57%,
Universities of Education : 36%
-Total e-Learning Contents : 2,607 courses
 Avg. no. of e-Learning courses at universities : 45.1 (2005)  187.6
(2006)
E-learning in Virtual Universities : 3,600 courses (2007.
1st semester)

7. Virtual University (KOREA)
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32.4%
36.9%
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10s
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Distribution of students by age
-
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4,000
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8,000
10,000
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2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Entrance Enrollment
57%
4%
24%
13%
2%
high school
self learner
junior college
university
graduate school
by academic background by profession type
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2%
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28% management
& service
agriculture
manufacture
soldier
no job

8. Knowledge in the world
• Rapid knowledge increase in digital form
Total storage amount of knowledge (2003) (unit: terabyte)
1999 2002 2005
Growth
Ratio(%)
Paper 1,200 1,634 2,225 36
Film 431,690 420,254 409,121 -3
Magnetic 2,779,760 4,999,230 8,990,812 80
Optical 81 103 130.9753086 28
Total amount 3,212,731 5,421,221 9,147,867 69
Source : Lyman and Hal. 2003

9. Knowledge in Higher Education
University
Library as a
resource
center

10. u-table
u-memoryboard
u-newspaper
My-e-book
Library as a resource center

11. Teaching & Learning competitiveness
• Quality assurance
• Sharing and credit exchange
• Copyright infringement
• Digital divide
Challenges
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Frequency
Preference Tendency for Contents Sharing

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 Preference tendency of copyright type for e-elarning contents
Survey Result (2007) percentage
Faculty Free access, edit, redistribution without permission
of authors
0.0
Access, edit, redistribution with permission of
authors
46.2
Free access to contents without permission of
authors &,
edit, redistribution with permission of authors
50.0
Access, edit is free,
Redistribution with permission of authors 0
License like CCL
3.8
others 0
Challenges

13. Challenges
Digital divide, disparity in HE

14. Policy in Korean context
University E-learning Support Center(UESC)
E-learning Contents Sharing
E-learning Quality Assurance
Implications

15. Strategies of the UESC Project

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South
ChungCheong
North Cholla
South Cholla
Jeju
Seoul
Kang-Won
North
ChungCheong
North
KyungSang
South
KyungSang
Distribution of UESC
InCheon

19. 19
University E-learning Support Center
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 sum
UESCs 1 1 3 2 3 10
E-
learning
contents
2 22 90 176 - 290
Budget
($,M)
0.8 0.8 2.1 2.1 2.8 8.6
10 regional e-learning hub universities

20. 2003 2004 2005 2006 sum
E-learning
Contents
15 10 10 10 45
Budget
(USD)
400,000 500,000 500,000 650,000 2,050,000
Unit of Contents = Semester
QA in Virtual University
Government Support for high quality contents
Virtual University evaluation
Legal framework

21. E-learning
QAC
UESC
Virtual uni
MPOE
MEST
K12
School
VET
LLL
K12 Higher/Lifelong/Vocation
Public
Organizations
verify svc./con.
consult
Private
sector
sol./con./svc.
supply supply
E-learning QA center

22. Structure of KOCW
Gateway SP
Metadata
Repository
 Central e-Learning Content Sharing Center
· e-Learning content & resources
· Research DB (Domestic and Oversea)
OAI-
PMH
meta harv.
KOCW
meta harv.
OAI-
PMH
C
M
S(DP)
University E-
learning Centers
Univ.
C
M
Metadata,
contents
GLOBE
IMS
OCWC
Global
Partnership
meta harv.
Virtual-
Universities
Cyber-univ.
C
M
S(DP)
OAI-PMH : Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
SP : Service Provider DP : Data Provider
M : Metadata C : Content
CTL : Center for Teaching & Learning
University CTLs
Cyber-univ.
C
M
S(DP)
OAI-
PMH
meta harv.
OAI-PMH
E-learning Sharing

23. Emergence of e-Learning as a new educational paradigm in knowledge-
based society
- To realize knowledge revolution through timely knowledge acquisition, sharing
and creation
Use of ICT as a major driving force for national competitiveness
-To build a lifelong education society through national learning ability enhancement
Need for cooperation between the industrial sphere and the academic
sphere
- To promote active participation of businesses in cooperating with universities,
developing high technologies, and training human resources
Quality Promotion in Higher Education
- Recognizing content best practices, content improvement, quality assurance etc.
Conclusion

24. Thank You!
Merci beaucoup!
감사합니다!
Korea Education & Research Information Service
hky@keris.or.kr