Three new classes such as ‘Story of Dokdo Examined with History and Natural Ecology’
Pilot operation of 11 K-MOOC class credit recognized general education class from the second semester of 2021
[June 17, 2021]
<Recording of K-MOOC classes (YU Education Development Center)>
Three outstanding classes of YUU were selected for the Ministry of Education’s ‘New 2021 Korea Massive Online Open Class (http://www.kmooc.kr/, hereinafter ‘K-MOOC’).’
An evaluation committee composed of MOOC experts and experts of each academic major made comprehensive assessments on the institutional operational capacity and excellence of classes for selecting the new classes. A total of three classes of YU were selected such as ▲Story of Dokdo Examined with History and Natural Ecology (Professor Park Sun-joo and 5 others) ▲Korean Culture through K-Contents (Professor Nam Mi-young and 4 others) ▲Understanding of Multi-cultural Korean Society for Foreigners (Professor Jung Yong-gyo and 2 others). A total of 210 million KRW will be provided with national funding.
Starting with the selection of the K-MOOC pilot operation project in 2015, YU was then selected as a KMOOC leading university in 2016 and about 13,000 students studied in a total of 9 classes. It has also been operating the K-MOOC study club for two years to support student capacities in their majors and general education through online learning.
In particular, YU plans to conduct pilot operation for a total of 11 K-MOOC classes including three classes that were newly selected for the second semester of 2021 as credit recognition classes.
YU Education Development Center Director Cho Haeng-rae said, “With this selection of K-MOOC individual classes, the outstanding lectures of YU will be provided within and outside of the school, and we will continue making various efforts to offer optimal education in the post-corona era.”
Since opening services in October of 2015, K-MOOC has received great responses with a total of 1.69 million applications and 739,000 subscriptions as of December 2020. In particular, interest among universities and students have been growing significantly due to the activation of contact-free classes being offered to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
