Entered MOU with the municipal and provincial education offices to offer a six-term master’s degree course from the second semester of the 2021 school year
Curriculum designed by professors in five majors including computer science, statistics, education, and math education
Strengthening ‘convergence and integration education capacities in the AI and big data sectors’
[March 11, 2021]
<MOU between YU and Gyeongsangbuk-do Office of Education’ for the opening and operation of the AI-Big Data Convergence Education Major at the Graduate School of Education>
(From fifth on left: Gyeonsangbuk-do Superintendent of Education Lim Jong-shik, YU President Choi Oe-chool)
YU (President Choi Oe-chool) will foster instructors with convergence education capacities in AI and big data.
At 11 a.m. on the 11th, a work MOU on the opening and operation of the AI-Big Data Convergence Education Major at the Graduate School of Education was signed between the Gyeongsangbuk-do Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Jong-shik) and YU. This MOU was signed as part of the Ministry of Education’s ‘AI Convergence Education Instructor Fostering Project’. This project aims at creating an alliance among the Ministry of Education, municipal and provincial education offices, and graduate school of education to foster elementary and middle school teachers through exchange and cooperation in convergence education and research in the AI and big data sectors.
Following this MOU with the Gyeongsangbuk-do Office of Education, YU also plans to enter an MOU with the Daegu Office of Education in April. With this MOU YU will be in charge of strengthening elementary and middle school teachers’ capacities in AI and big data in the Daegu and Gyeongbuk regions.
The YU Graduate School of Education will select 10 new students in July for the AI-Big Data Convergence Education Major (master’s degree) from the second semester of the 2021 school year. Students will be recommended among current teachers by the education offices of Daegu and Gyeongsangbuk-do, from which the YU Graduate School of Education will make the final selection. The course will span across six semesters and the education offices will provide 50% of the tuition for graduate school.
In particular, the YU Graduate School of Education's AI-Big Data Convergence Education Major (master’s degree) will have its curriculum compiled by professors in five departments including computer science, statistics, education, and math education, and it is thus expected that it will be possible to strengthen the integration and convergence capacities of elementary and middle school teachers.
YU Graduate School of Education Dean Cho Gyu-rak said, “We have established the foundation for fostering faculty to realize convergence and integration education in the AI and big data sectors, which are the biggest pillars for the age of the fourth industrial revolution,” while adding, “As this course is offered for current teachers, we will work with the Office of Education to operate practical programs that can be used directly by schools.”
