Without a doubt, the buzzword of the year is 'smart' and you cannot separate 'smart' from e-learning or m-learning. Korea Cyber University is leading the establishment of the m-learning system, an advanced version of e-learning, which enables students to watch video lectures and attend classes via computer, by offering lectures through Smartphones.
From 2002, KCU (where Lee Woo-yong is the president, www.kcu.ac) has pioneered Korea's ubiquitous education system, offering lecture files formatted for mobile devices including PDA and PMP, and from the end of second semester in 2010, began test-operating the mobile campus where students can attend courses using Smartphones. The university is also planning to launch a new service which will enable students to manage everything from entrance applications to class attendance and checking reports via Smartphone from 2011.
Moreover, KCU is the only cyber university in Korea that allows students to attend courses from 61 renowned Korean universities including Yonsei University, through cross registration. Students also have access to the libraries of 25 member universities across the county, where they can visit and read books after work or during weekends.
KCU is especially well known for specialized education. The courses are focused on practical theories and exercises that are required at real workplaces, which helps students to become experts by the time they graduate from the university. The departments with particularly promising prospects include the department of tax accounting, police/correction, computer information communication, real estate, social welfare, business management, and information security, all of which provide internships and one-to-one mentor program between professors and students, in order to improve professional competence in a real work environment.
Also, the university offers special lectures for qualification certificates, promotes networking among students to help one other improve expertise and motivation, and supports graduates in finding employment or continuing their studies at graduate schools.
Regardless of age, genre, or nationality, students can attend various courses from vocational education to liberal arts, re-watching the lectures as many times as they want, at one third of the tuition normal universities have, thanks to cyber universities, which are leading the age of information in education field, using state-of-art technology. For those reasons, many Koreans living overseas choose to apply for Korean cyber universities, and the excellent contents of the universities are currently exported to Southeast Asian countries, contributing to the new Korean wave.
