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Figure 4
KNOU’s Academic Programs
DELIVERY SYSTEM AND materials and supplementary materials, the
TECHNOLOGY USE KNOU Press, an independent corporation,
KNOU students take online lectures using publishes academic books and articles of
cable TV, the Internet, and mobile devices KNOU professors as part of the KNOU Press
and offline classes based on teaching Policy Project.
materials and workbooks. In relation to
teaching materials, KNOU has a Digital KNOU’s online contents are divided into four
Media Center and a publisher called KNOU types: TV lectures, multimedia lectures, web-
Press. The Digital Media Center produces based instructions and audio lectures.
and distributes distance education contents (1) TV lectures
and the KNOU Press plans, publishes, and TV lectures, one of the most accessible
sells teaching materials. In addition to the forms of media, are distributed via TV
production and distribution of teaching which is the main medium of distance
Korea National Open University (KNOU)