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Online Lifelong Education Center’s ’10th Anniversary Ceremony and Policy Forum’ attended by 200 people, including Kwon Tae-seong, Director of the Ministry of Employment and Labor

[서울포커스] “STEP is always open to anyone, anytime, anywhere”

Korea University of Technology and Education (President Gil-sang Yoo) Online Lifelong Education Center (Director Moon-soo Lee) successfully held the ’10th Anniversary Ceremony and Policy Forum’ under the slogan “Anytime, Anywhere, Anyone on STEP” at El Tower in Seoul on the afternoon of the 24th.

About 200 people attended the commemorative event, including Kwon Tae-seong, Director of Vocational Competency Policy Bureau of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, Lim Chun-geon, Acting Chairman of Korea Polytechnic University, and Ko Hye-won, Director of Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training, as well as university officials.

In his welcoming speech, President Yoo Gil-sang said, “STEP (Smart Training Education Platform), a smart vocational training platform of the Online Lifelong Education Center, develops online training content in the fields of high-tech industries and digital new technologies and provides them to the entire public, as well as private companies and vocational training institutions. “We have faithfully played our role as an online hub for national lifelong vocational skills development through support of the learning management system, etc.,” he said. “With the 10th anniversary of its opening, the members of Korea University of Technology and Education are working to develop ‘Step’ into a world-class premium vocational training platform beyond Korea.” “I will do my best for this,” he said.

At the first part of the commemorative ceremony, ▲video commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Online Lifelong Education Center and presentation of the Achievement Award, ▲demonstration of the second advancement of STEP (Smart Vocational Training Platform), ▲Korea University of Technology and Education-Korea Polytechnic University-Korea Vocational to promote vocational training using Step. A business agreement was signed between the three competency research institutes.

The main contents of the business agreement are ▲ joint research on national lifelong vocational competency development policy and joint development and operation of education and training programs, ▲ sharing of education and training equipment and infrastructure, ▲ joint participation and cooperation in international development cooperation projects, and ▲ field training student exchange and information. exchange, etc.

In the second part of the policy forum that followed, Director Lee Moon-soo gave a keynote presentation on the theme of ‘Step Project Promotion Achievements and Development Direction’, followed by Professor Lee Young-min of Sookmyung Women’s University and Professor Lee Ji-eun of Hanyang Cyber ​​University on ‘Vocational Competency Development Policy and the Role of Staff’. Each presented a presentation on ‘The future of vocational education and training opened by tech’.

In the general discussion chaired by Professor Oh Chang-heon of Korea University of Technology and Education, Korea Information Education Institute Director Koh Hyun-jeong, Dankook University Professor Park Moon-soo, Hyundai Steel Manager Seo Kyeong-won, and Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training Vice Center Director Jeon Seung-hwan participated as panelists, providing a platform for public vocational training. A venue was created for in-depth conversations about the role and direction to take.

Korea University of Technology and Education’s Online Lifelong Education Institute developed the ‘e-koreatech’ platform in 2015 and began service with the support of the Ministry of Employment and Labor in response to the need to build a public online integrated platform for lifelong vocational competency development e-learning training in 2014. As the vocational competency development project through ‘e-koreatech’ has achieved various effects, the Online Lifelong Education Center, together with the Ministry of Employment and Labor, has launched ‘STEP’, a smart vocational training platform that will encompass more professional and diverse vocational training projects. built.

STEP serves as an online hub for lifelong vocational competency development by providing online-based vocational training infrastructure (platform, online vocational training content, learning management system, etc.) to various vocational trainees and institutions.

During the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Ministry of Employment and Labor contributed greatly to overcoming the national education crisis by converting various vocational training projects centered on group education to new training methods such as smart mixed training using staff. With a cumulative membership of approximately 810,000 over the past 10 years, Staff has developed 1,905 public online training contents (technology, engineering, humanities, office work, etc.), including e-learning and virtual training, to serve the entire public, and is a learning management system (LMS) distribution agency. The number reaches 653 institutions.

Through the second upgrade in February of this year, ▲customized training course recommendation, ▲comprehensive management of training and career, ▲integrated portal with application of personalized widget function, ▲program coding online practice room, ▲PBT (Projected Base Training) system, ▲customer management system (CRM) ), ▲ Two-way, real-time training support system (STEP-Live), etc. are being provided.

Lee Mun-su, director of the Online Lifelong Education Center, said, “Through the 10th anniversary event and forum, we would like to look back on our past achievements and footsteps and provide an opportunity to take a leap forward again.” “We will establish ourselves as Korea’s representative online vocational training institution in name and reality by ‘developing an education model’ and establishing a ‘good environment for learning.’”

Through its staff, the Online Lifelong Education Center provides online vocational training content in the field of technical engineering and new technologies to all citizens, including current employees and those preparing for employment, and provides learning management system (LMS) to vocational training institutions, companies, and universities. We provide sales services.

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