This document discusses lessons that can be learned from South Korea's Cyber Home Learning System (CHLS) for online K-12 education in the United States. It provides background on the history of distance education and online learning in South Korea, describing how the CHLS began in 2005 and now serves over 12 million students. The CHLS is an important supplemental learning program that helps reduce costs for private tutoring and provides more equal access to education across regions. It currently has around 10,000 online teachers supporting students.

1. in South Korea: Lessons
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Jurisdictions
in South Korea: Lessons
for United States
Jurisdictions
Michael K. Barbour
Wayne State University

2. How Did This Presentation Come About?
AECT - ICER Opportunity
• ICER: Lessons from K-12 online
learning in North America that
may be useful for the South Korea
context
• AECT: Lessons from K-12 online
learning in South Korea that may
be useful for the North America
context

3. History of K-12 Distance Education

4. History of K-12 Online Learning

5. 2005 with 300,000 & now have
12,000,000 taking online
Virtual coursesNew Zealandnational
Schooling Around theNetwork, along
World
Virtual Learning
with online courses from the
• China Correspondence School
- less than 1% - national Virtual Learning
• Iran Network, along with online
courses from the
- many private companies Correspondence School
offering MOE approved
courses • national Virtual Learning
Network, along with online
• Japan courses from the
- one correspondence school Correspondence School
offering online course
- national Virtual Learning
Network, along with online
courses from the
Correspondence School
Powell & Patrick (2006)
• national Virtual Learning
Network, along with online
courses from the

6. Virtual Schooling Around the World
• United Kingdom • South Koreaseveral online
forms of DE, including the
- A School Without Walls Cyber Home Learning System
offers A level & GCSC
courses primarily to adults
- National Academy for Gifted
and Talented Youth offers ‣ No real other K-12 online
some online courses learning initiativesMany
online school support initiatives
• Australia
- several DE programs
offering online learning
• Finland
- Small national virtual school

7. Why CHLS Important?
• over 80% of Korean students attend higher education (Song & Kim, 2009)
• competition for entrance into the best-ranked colleges and universities
requires that parents purchase additional tutoring beyond formal schooling
• the CHLS provides supplemental learning opportunities to reduce the cost
of this private tutoring and eliminate the gap between regions and classes
• in 2008, the CHLS was used by 3.09 million students (an increase of 6.4%),
with an 86% increase in the number of classes and a 100% increase in the
number of students per class (Korean Education and Research Information
Service, 2009)
• presently, there are approximately 10,000 teachers working as cyber tutors;
who perform pedagogical, administrative, social and technical roles for the
these students (Bae, Han, Lee & Lee, 2008)

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