장애인 직업능력개발을 위한 사이버교육 요구조사 연구

Abstract

The researchers conducted a survey research pursuing for understanding of vocational training needs for the disabled workforce in Korea. The 284 samples for the study was randomly selected out of the 95,487 population registered to the database of the Korea Employment Promotion Agency for the Disabled (KEPAD). Results indicate that the disabled workforce recognize the importance of vocational training for their employability, especially when the training programs they experienced were more focused on the hands-on, job-related contents rather than those on socialization contents. The respondents' preferred methods of training was inconsistent across their experience with cyber education: Those who have experienced cyber education significantly more preferred this new technology-based method to their non-experience colleagues. They also addressed that their preferred media of instruction were multimedia, audio-visual, visual-only, audio-only, and leastly, text-only material. Interpretations of the results of the study are provided in light of past research and additional data collected from the study. Implications of the study are also discussed along with suggestions for future research.