고등교육에서의 e-러닝 콘텐츠 실태와 시사점

Abstract

Higher Education in Korea have made a rapid progress in a quantitative aspect last 50 years. E-learning, which utilizes information technology actively in teaching and learning, is believed to contribute to the development of higher education. Even though e-learning has many merits and strengths, questions and issues on the quality of e-learning has been raised. In order to understand the roles of e-learning and suggest effective development strategies, a more comprehensive study which investigates the e-learning contents status is urgent. This study had two primary purposes, which are germane to the universities in Korea: 1) To identify current status of e-learning contents; 2) to identify implications for further development of e-learning. The population for this study is universities in Korea. Once the web-based survey questionnaire was delivered to all universities, 194 universities replied the survey. The return rate is 96.5% . The major finding of this study are as follows: 1) The ratio of providing e-learning service is 56.7% in universities; 2) the e-learning provision ratio depends on the size of the higher education institute in terms of the number of the students; 3) the number of the e-learning contents has been doubled since 2005; 4) almost 90% of e-learning contents is instructor-centered and most e-learning contents contains video lectures.. Based on the above result, several implications for further development are made. Among them, the followings are important: 1) Establish differentiated strategies according to size, location, and types of universites, 2) assure advanced quality of the contents, 3) enlarge networks among universities, and 4) develop professional organization and staff.