4. OER and CC Korea (2)
● CC Korea follow up OER contents in
Korea
● Introduce & make bridge of domestic
OER on CC Korea's official Website
● Provide advices to use CCL/ referring
copyright law in Korean context for OER
● Cooperate with OER subjects for various
events & conference
5. The Aspects of OER in Korea
1. OER platform
: SNOW, KOCW
2. OER in higher education
: OCW of Universities
3. Individual OER
: Egoing's 'Life Coding', Teachers' blogs
4. Community & Organization OER
: Korean Art&Culture Education service, Gyeongi Art&Culture
Education Center
7. SNOW (1)
● 'SNOW'(Sookmyung Network for Open World)
(www.snow.or.kr) is a community-type OER
platform that delivers remarkable courseware
around the world to Korean-speaking audience.
● Users can upload OER(open courseware) contents
to share, discuss with comments, and participate in
translating those contents into Korean.
● SNOW was established to overcome 1. language
barrier to knowledge, 2. hardship for scattered
academic contents, and 3. difficulty to hand on how
to find knowledge on web.
● The website now carries approximately 8,500
videos with Korean scripts.
8. SNOW (2)
● Especially, SNOW organizes events such as
SNOW Knowledge Forum and tape them to create
autonomous contents.
● Sookmyung Women’s University is supporting the
service.
● Since the contents were selected and brought
from various OCW sources, it is important to
respect their own CCL conditions. In order to
educate the users, SNOW provides a CCL users’
guide.
10. KOCW (1)
● KOCW is a public OCW repository and utilization
service run by KERIS (Korea Education and Research
Information Service).
● Users can view and search among the material from
the repository, approx. 165,000 educational resources.
● The material is collected from government funded
research from Korean Universities and laboratories,
and oversea OER movement organizations.
● Cooperating oversea organizations are such as
ARIADNE, TED, OERCommons, NIME, LORNET,
edna, YouTube/Edu, MERLOT, and
ReaserchChannel.
11. KOCW (2)
● KOCW provides 3 types of material—open
course material, course preparation
material, and course-related sources such
as class notes.
● In conclusion, KOCW offers a full
curriculum opportunity to those who are
not necessarily enrolled to post-secondary
institutes.
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13. OCW of Korea University
● Korea Univ's OCW(ocw.korea.edu/) is
official Open CourseWare site for Korea
University
● Making its actual courses' materials
available through CCL
● The materials on this site are provided by
professors who believe in sharing and
opening
● It shares more than 270 classes of the
university.
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15. OCW of University of Ulsan
● Since 2009, the University of Ulsan
(located Ulsan city of southern Korea) run
OCW depository website(ocw.ulsan.ac.kr)
for students and general users
● It shares more than 500s classes by +24
professors throughout 11 colleges, filed
up during 6 school semesters
17. "Creating Knowledge-Sharing World with
Universities"
● Korean Council for University Education
(approx. 250 member institutes) has declared
"Creating Knowledge-Sharing World with
Universities."
● Organizations such as KERIS, Korean
Council for University College Education,
Creative Commons Korea, etc. joined this
declaration, which makes the participating
institutes up to over 300.
● We expect to witness more active OER
movement in Korea based on this
18. e-Nanoschool (1)
● e-Nanoschool is a nano-technology
focused online education program.
● It is one of the first OCW movement
results in Korea, idea initiated by Korea
Univ. Prof. Kyu-tae Kim, and still ongoing
actively.
● It provides courses in a full-semester
length curriculum. Students must follow
the curriculum schedule in order to
complete the course.
19. e-Nanoschool (2)
● It issues a course completion certification
after a student passes the final exam in
the end of the semester.
● The class is not only for those who are
currently attending academic institutes but
also for those working or interested in the
industry.
● In 2012, e-Nanoschool offers two different
courses, Nanomaterials and Nanobiology.
21. E-going’s “Life Coding” (1)
● Egoing is a independent blogger voluntarily
uploading online tutorials. His projects can be
called "Korean IT version of Khan Academy."
● His most well-known curriculum “Life Coding”
encourages non-major people to get familiar with
IT and learn how to code by themselves.
● This program offers video tutorials, discussion
board, Facebook group, mutually shared study
schedule, etc.
● The tutorials keep updating with different material
by Egoing.
22. E-going’s “Life Coding” (2)
● His another project that ended recently is
called “Coding for Seniors.”
● It is not really a coding class but more an
introductory class for seniors to IT devices
such as computers and smartphones.
● E-going is an example of how a non-
organization-initiated open education program
can be successful through a self-motivated
and dedicated program developer and
networking participants.
25. OER on Teachers' blogs (3)
● Some of passionate, lively inservice
teachers in elementary, secondary
schools of Korea run their own blogs for
OER sharing
● The most popular and helpful
cases-'Betizzang's hitory travel blog',
'Cozoo's happy Korean class'- are entitled
as "Power Bloger" by portal sites.
27. Korean Arts&Culture Education Service
(2)
● The media, classroom, scholastic material
for arts & culture educators and teachers
● Managed and updated by governmentally
supported service organization for arts &
culture education
● Issuing open online & offline magazine
covering themes about arts & culture
education
29. EduShare's Textbook share (2)
● Built by voluntary community consisting of
university students in Korea
● All materials are used and shared for low-
income, underprivileged kids, teenagers.
● After several years of voluntary night
school activity, EduShare open their
accumulated materials-textbooks through
CCL
30. 4. Future Directions of OER in Korea
● Integrity between each contents
● Using various media devices-i.e. iPhone
and other smart phone application serving
● Working together to maximising
effectiveness for building, running,
sharing, and promoting.
● More participations by individual, NGOs,
community, and groups.
