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RESEARCH AREAS
Institute of Distance Education, an auxiliary facility to KNOU, carries out various policy studies
and academic projects to improve the competitiveness of the tertiary education that KNOU
offers. Table 2 lists the titles of research conducted from 2017-2020, which indicates the area
of topics that interest and are considered important by KNOU and KNOU professors.

Table 4
List of Research during 2017- 2020

Year Research Title
2017 1. A Study on Strategies to Introduce KNOU MOOC Service, based on KNOU’s Pool
of Contents
2. A Study on the establishment of a distance higher, lifelong education support
system for educationally disadvantaged people: A Case of learners with
multicultural backgrounds
3. A Study on the plan to support innovation at national universities (PoINT )
4. A study on an analysis of educational needs among KNOU graduates: A survey
of KNOU graduates between 2014 and 2017
5. A study on the development of investigative tools for KNOU learners’ learning
outcomes
6. A study on KNOU learners’ needs per generation and ways to find new sources
of students
7. A study on future distance higher, lifelong education in an intelligent information
society of the fourth industrial revolution
8. A study on the IDE’s performance for the last 40 years and its future development
plans
9. A study on ways to reorganize the education system to create a new pool of
students
10. A study on measures to introduce intensive semesters
11. A study on evaluation methods focused on learning process to improve KNOU
students’ learning effects
12. A study on the development of guidelines to offer face -to -face lectures in
different ways
13. A study on the design of a future KNOU knowledge portal based on smart
learning in preparation for the advent of the fourth industrial revolution
14. A study on the diagnosis for KNOU organization
15. A study on ways to offer new elective courses and an implementation roadmap
16. A study on the HR management of teaching faculty to support teaching and
research
17. A study on a pilot operation of the tutor system improvement measures, and
the development of action plans to measure their effectiveness
18. A study on the plan to establish a system to evaluate the finance of KNOU
projects
19. A study on the measures to analyze KNOU faculty’s research activities and to
improve the university’s research policies

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