YU offers full support to ‘improve quality and enhance learning effects’ of online classes
Customized online education for instructors and increased participation in class consulting
‘Online study strategy education and 1:1 study consulting’ for students popular
[April 29, 2020]
<The YU Education Development Center is providing online study consulting for students>
YU (President Sur Gil-soo) is speeding up its efforts to make ‘outstanding online lectures’. As the age of online education has arrived abruptly due to the spread of COVID-19, the university is providing full support to expand online teaching methods and to improve quality of education.
Among them, education and consulting offered for professors and students offered by the YU Education Development Center is receiving a great deal of popularity.
The YU Education Development Center turned the special teaching lecture that was offered both online and offline in the past to only online, thus providing instructors with ▲teaching strategies using SNS, ▲professor-student communication method in online classes, ▲development of visual materials to attract attention, ▲project teaching method, ▲academic motivation strategies, ▲edu-tech, and other teaching methods optimized for online education. Furthermore, 1:1 online class consulting was also offered for instructors. Consulting is offered on online education methods according to the types of classes such as major, general education, and practical classes, as well as lecture methods such as videos, real-time online classes, etc.
In the future, the YU Education Development Center plans to share outstanding online class cases and class videos in the lecture portal system (LMS) through the ‘online class contents operation case contest’, and collect opinions of instructors to establish an optimized teaching model for online education.
<Online real-time 1:1 class consulting>
Online study strategy education and 1:1 study consulting for students are especially popular. Students are educated on study methods and learning strategies that can be used in online classes and 1:1 consulting is provided for academic plans and difficulties using Google Meet. In particular, education and consulting is being provided on various academic strategies for freshmen such as self-initiated studies, time management and practice, improving concentration, class utilization, reading and memory methods, test preparation, etc. Students are also creating their own ‘online study knowhow’ contents and sharing it as they also adapt to the online education age.
YU Education Development Center Director Kim Geun-ho said, “Many instructors and students are participating in the teaching-learning online education and consulting. Instructors are operating online classes using various methods according to the major and class contents, and students are also maximizing the advantages of online classes to create their own learning knowhow.” He added, “We will expand the relevant infrastructure to maximize efficiency for instructors and students to prepare for education and to learn, and we will continue to offer education and consulting for education recipients.”
The YU Education Development Center was designated by the Ministry of Education as the Daegu-Gyeongbuk Regional University E-learning Support Center and has constructed online lecture knowhow and infrastructure. Various contents production tool systems can be used at the 65 high-tech lecture rooms, 220 general lectures, professor research centers, labs, etc. to produce and distribute online lectures. As of the first semester of 2020, it is providing support for producing class contents and online classes for 3,082 undergraduate classes and 734 graduate school classes.
