Abstract
Corporate e-Learning in Korea has rapidly grown for the last five years(2000-2005). This study argues that the main cause of such a drastic increase in distance education for adults in Korea was not the needs of companies to provide high-quality training programs through Internet but the initiative of government to make the whole state as an information society. The policies for quantitative growth with minimum levels of quality and uniformity have been dominant and resulted in the lack of diverse e-Learning types for authentic practices in workplaces. The paper suggests the corporate e-Learning should be directed by both the governmental support and the companies’ initiative in order to cope with the demand of the newly required competencies for more employees.
Highlights
Open and distance learning in Korea had not been fully implemented and discussed prior to 2000
Since 1972, systematic formal education for adult learners who did not have the opportunities to enter more traditional colleges had only been provided at such a mega university as the Korean National Open University (KNOU)
Traditional, face-to-face education had been the dominant mode of teaching, while distance learning made up only a small portion of the Korean educational system
Summary
Open and distance learning in Korea had not been fully implemented and discussed prior to 2000. The Korean Ministry of Labor reported that the growth rate of Internet correspondence training participants was 6,281 percent over the past six years (19,653 in 1999 and 1,254,066 in 2005) (Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, Korea Institute for Electronic Commerce, & Korea Association of Convergence Education, 2006). While this astronomical figure can be explained in many ways (Lee, 2006) with positive results, its negative effects on corporate e-Learning and distance learning have been noted. Regional Focus ~ Changing Faces of Open and Distance Education in Asia, Insung Jung Editor
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