1. Korea Education & Research Information Service
KOCW 현황과 발전방향
June
Hye-Kyung Yang
Korea Education & Research Information Service

2. Contents 3 What is KOCW? Contents Community Communication1
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Contents 2
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Community
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Communication
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Future of KOCW
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3. I. What is KOCW?
KOCW (Korea Open CourseWare) is a nation-wide educational contents sharing service for Higher Education in Korea
Developed and being operated by Korea Education & Research Information Service (KERIS) since its launch in 2007

4. I. What is KOCW?
KERIS is a government agency under the Ministry of Education and Science & Technology in Korea
Founded in 1999, KERIS has contributed to Higher Education in Korea by promoting intelligent use of Information Technology

5. I. What is KOCW? * KOCW (Korea Open CourseWare): http://www.kocw.net
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6. I. What is KOCW?
In 2007, began with federated search for 200 courseware and related documents located at 40 universities
In 2009, increased its contents by app. 700 courseware of more than 70 major universities in Korea
Established to upload ocw contents produced by government funded project for higher education to KOCW
Developed collaborative spaces (OpenLab) for learners and educators to actively sharing ocw
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7. III. Contents
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8. III. Contents
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9. III. Contents Institutions OCW OER Korean 77 755 8,070 Overseas 40 489
( as of April 2010)
Institutions
OCW
OER
Korean 77
755
8,070
Overseas 40
489
616
ARIADNE 1 -
4,800
Commons
24,249
Total
119
1,244
37,735
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10. IV. Community
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11. V. Communication
Smart Phone Sales
(Unit: 10,000)
2007
2008
2009
2010
※ Source: Digital Times (Seoul, Korea, 2010)
Mobile KOCW: planning to be launched by May 2010 with iPhone application
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12. KOCW as Open Participatory Learning Ecosystem
VI. Future of KOCW
KOCW as Open Participatory Learning Ecosystem
Contents
Community
Communication
Individual
Collaborate
Interactive Channels
moving from Institution to Individual
active collaborating beyond participating
more channels to deliver, with reciprocal interactivities enabled
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13. Thank You