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10 OPEN AND DISTANCE EDUCATON IN ASIA
Good Practices from AAOU Members

Web-based instructions are provided distributed on the internet and students
for a few undergraduate courses and can download them as mp3 files using
all graduate courses. Video lectures their mobile devices. Students can study
and audio lectures are provided via the audio lectures anywhere and at any time.
website. Students can participate in
various activities through the message MOOCs AND OTHER OPEN
board. WBI facilitates interactions EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES
between the instructor and students.
WBI also provides tutoring. K-MOOC
The Ministry of Education in Korea initiated
(4) Audio lectures K-MOOC (Korean Massive Open Online
For students who could not access Course) in 2015 as a response to the
broadcast lectures, KNOU established international expansion of Massive Open
the Audio Library so that they could Online Course (MOOC) and the changing
borrow lecturing cassette tapes. Regional paradigm of higher education. K-MOOC
learning centers lent or sold audio/video revolutionized the learning method of
recorders so that students who missed universities and suggested equal opportunity
radio/TV lectures could record broadcast for higher education. This will contribute to
lectures which are also sent out by mail. improving the quality of higher education and
ultimately enhancing the competitiveness
At present, instruction-centered classes of universities through the spread and
such as languages are distributed as dissemination of higher education.
audio lectures. Audio lectures are

Korea National Open University (KNOU)