On the 24th, the Online Lifelong Education Center ‘10th Anniversary Ceremony and Policy Forum’ was held.
Korea University of Technology and Education’s Online Lifelong Education Center successfully held the ’10th Anniversary Ceremony and Policy Forum’ at El Tower in Seoul on the afternoon of the 24th with the slogan “Anytime, Anywhere, Anyone on STEP.”
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 address, President Yoo Gil-sang said, “The Online Lifelong Education Institute’s smart vocational training platform ‘STEP’ (Smart Training Education Platform) develops online training content in the field of high-tech industries and digital new technologies and provides them to all citizens, and provides learning management to private companies and vocational training institutions. “We have faithfully played our role as an online hub for national lifelong vocational skills development through system support, etc.,” he said. “With the 10th anniversary of opening, the members of Korea University of Technology and Education are doing their best to develop ‘STEP’ beyond Korea into a world-class premium vocational training platform.” “I will do my best,” he said.
Kwon Tae-seong, Director of Vocational Competency Policy Bureau of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, said in a congratulatory speech, “I hope that the Online Lifelong Education Center will be reborn as a representative institution in Korea by providing all citizens with equal opportunities to develop lifelong vocational skills.” “We will actively support you so that you can receive the vocational training you want without restrictions,” he said.
In the first part of the ceremony, ▲video commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Online Lifelong Education Center and the presentation of the Achievement Award, ▲STEP (Smart Vocational Training Platform) 2nd enhancement demonstration, ▲Korea University of Technology and Education-Korea Polytechnic University-Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education to revitalize vocational training using STEP MOUs were signed between the three organizations.
The main contents of the MOU 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 topic of ‘STEP project performance and development direction’, followed by Professor Lee Young-min of Sookmyung Women’s University on ‘Vocational competency development policy and the role of STEP’ and Professor Lee Ji-eun of Hanyang Cyber University on ‘「 Each presented a presentation on ‘The Future of Vocational Education and Training Opened by Edtech’.
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 and discussed STEP as a public vocational training platform. 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’ achieved various effects, the Online Lifelong Education Center, together with the Ministry of Employment and Labor, built ‘STEP’, a smart vocational training platform that encompasses more professional and diverse vocational training projects.
STEP serves as an online hub for lifelong vocational skills 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 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 STEP.
STEP, which has a cumulative membership of about 810,000 over 10 years, develops 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 organization. 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) ▲interactive/real-time We are providing upgraded services such as the training support system (STEP-Live).
Lee Moon-soo, 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 for a leap forward.” He added, “Customer-tailored training that encompasses all job trainees, including current employees and job seekers. “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 STEP, the Online Lifelong Education Center provides online vocational training content in the field of technical engineering and new technology to all citizens, including current employees and job seekers. The Learning Management System (LMS) is provided to vocational training institutions, companies, and universities. We provide sales services.
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