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Figure 7
K-MOOC Platform

Top Korean universities such as Seoul National survey showed that 85% of the respondents
University, Yonsei University, and Korea who took the K-MOOC courses were satisfied
University, were selected as the test bed for with their learning outcomes, which is similar
K-MOOC pilot operation in 2015. While the to the result in 2017 (84.5%). As of 2019, 116
selection process of the content was centered institutions were providing a total of 1,703
on top universities until 2018, the Ministry courses at K-MOOC website (http://kmooc.
and National Institute for Lifelong Education kr). The number of enrollments in 2019
(NILE) changes the selection process to was 1,168,288 and the number of visits to
prioritize the course content. Specifically, K-MOOC website was 12,054,483.
they began to select a bundle of 4~5 courses
to create a curriculum mostly related to the K-MOOC plans to develop and manage
topic of the 4 Industrial Revolution. Each excellent content which meets high
th
bundle is selected under topics that are demand of learners based on autonomy
policy driven while other individual courses of participating organizations. K-MOOC is
can choose their topic autonomously. expected to expand its number of courses
and participating institutions every year.
After three years since its launch, the
interests of individual learners have increased
consistently, and it is expected to grow
further as the learning record system is more
widely acknowledged and used. The 2018

Korea National Open University (KNOU)