Online education meets international standards
Online education meets international standards
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Establishing a first for a Korean university of the Internet, Sejong Cyber University (www. cybersejong.ac.kr) is now exporting its educational content overseas. By exporting its cyber university lecture contents for the first time to Taiwan TKB (Taiwan Knowledge Bank), the teaching schedule and direction of the Taipei-based virtual university is on the same footing as that of Sejong Cyber University. Choi Dhong-hou, president of Sejong Cyber University, who was inaugurated on March 1 this year, says in an exclusive interview with The Korea IT Times that cyber online education market is infinite, explaining that Korea has 19 million high school graduates plus 12.50 million people among the 23 million persons who are economically active but who don possess an academic degree.
Choi Dhong-hou, president of Sejong Cyber University
To capture this potential online education market, Sejong Cyber University is launching a strategy based on selection and concentration by analyzing which cyber departments are most appealing to its students, the newly-inaugurated president stressed. The background to Sejong Cyber University gaining such a brilliant achievement as exporting its online education content to Taiwan for the first time among domestic cyber universities, owes much to the University efforts to construct the most effective online educational system possible. To provide students with excellent educational content, teams composed of education engineering experts, are designing lectures, and to improve the already excellent level of lectures even further, the University is awarding a est Teaching Awardto the professor who gives the most outstanding lecture every semester, he explained. Thanks to such ceaseless effort toward self-development, the university president said Sejong Cyber University has also acquired the ISO 9001 international certification for the first time among domestic cyber universities regarding cyber education in the areas of design, development as well as operation. Over his term of office, he has committed himself to doing his utmost to upgrading the production of education content to new levels of excellence, pointing out that distinguished scholars such as Albin Toffler and Peter Drucker chose the cyber university as a leading alternative for the education of the future. Yet, the university president points out also several challenges that facing the cyber university today in its quest for acceptance and student enrollment.
First, Choi explains that it is not easy to enroll students at a cyber university as competition to draw students among the 17 domestic cyber universities is fierce. In that respect, he emphasizes that Sejong Cyber University will concentrate its efforts on developing programs, which can contribute to drawing students and has an especial interest also in upgrading the educational curriculum in some departments that have fallen behind the rest through a strict program of restructuring. Second, he points out that the societal position of a cyber university is not easy because when the greater part of the country thinks about a university, what springs to mind immediately is the traditional campus-based institution as well as an establishment with the prestige, say, of Seoul National University, Korea University or Yonsei University. However, considering that the market for cyber education is boundless, he said Sejong Cyber University is committed to developing interesting subject areas, by, for instance cultivating niche educational markets such as theology or philosophy, or gerontology and care of the elderly besides the cyber university established departments. Nevertheless, Choi sees a bright outlook for the future of cyber universities, saying that for cyber universities to gain broader acceptance it is necessary to change the national one-dimensional view of what higher education is supposed to consist of. In particular, he said Sejong Cyber University is determined to create new forms of packaging and delivering knowledge and information in terms of ifetime education pointing out that no institution better serves this aim (or necessity in today world) than the cyber university.

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