Understanding blended learning |
- Understand interdisciplinary education and introduce programs to educate the workforce of the future
- To understand that various disciplines are closely connected to solve each other's problems and to realize the importance of cultivating the creative teaching ability of pre-service teachers.
- To develop communication and teaching skills through the cooperation of science, sociology, humanities, and arts, students understand convergence through case studies and develop the ability to implement convergence education.
2016 Convergence Education Understanding Results Presentation (June 14, 2016)
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Creative Teaching in Action |
- Pre-service teachers need to be able to adapt to the changing school environment.
- In order to experience changing school policies such as student-centered instruction and open semesters, this course allows preservice teachers to collaborate with teachers in a real school setting to build a learning community to run open semester classes, address school violence, and experience interdisciplinary coaching and counseling.
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Life and career |
- As a teacher, have the opportunity to think more deeply about and guide students in various career education and character education beyond your own field of study. In particular, as future teachers, they are encouraged to experience the need for mentoring for their students and to broaden their understanding of various career paths, employment, and entrepreneurship through the process of creating new businesses related to education.
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Healthy Living and beautiful life |
- The exploration of the values of health and beauty required of future teachers is experienced in a scientific, practical, and aesthetic way, enabling learners to think in an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary way that enables them to become active agents of real life change.
- In doing so, pre-service teachers develop scientific knowledge, practical competence, and aesthetic literacy in the areas of self and identity formation, human relationships with self and others, understanding of society and community, and ecological coexistence with nature and the environment. In doing so, the program develops the interdisciplinary competencies of pre-service teachers to lead education in the 21st century.
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Convergence Education Teaching methods |
- Students are exposed to new teaching methods of the future through the introduction of technology in the education of various subjects other than their own majors, and develop competence in the field of teaching utilizing technology by practicing lessons using technology.
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The "Practice of Convergence Education" course aims to enable pre-service teachers to understand the concepts and principles of convergence education and apply them in the real world of education. Therefore, the course is organized and operated as follows.
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Contents |
Concepts and Principles of Blended Learning |
- What Is Convergence Education?
- How it differs from STEM, STEAM, and inclusive education and what it means
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Core Principles of Blended Learning |
- Problem-based learning, creative problem solving, collaboration and communication, technology and design, ethics and social responsibility
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Teaching methods and real-world applications of blended learning |
- Introduce teaching methods such as PBL, inquiry-based learning, and design thinking that play an important role in convergence education.
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Real-world examples of blended learning training |
- For example, how to add design elements to science lessons to inspire students to solve scientific problems.
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Educator roles and personal development for blended learning |
- The role of the educator in blended learning: guiding students to choose different learning styles based on their interests and abilities, fostering student engagement and collaboration, and more
- Self-development of educators for fusion education: Introduction to the need for learning and self-development of new technologies, methodologies, and teaching methods related to convergence education, etc.
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Assessment and evaluation methods for blended learning |
- Assessment methods for blended learning: Introducing assessments to measure students' creativity, problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and more
- Assessment tools for convergence education: Introduce assessment tools that take into account the characteristics of convergent education, such as portfolios, student work assessments, and peer-to-peer assessments.
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"Convergence Education in the Digital Age"is a curriculum designed to help pre-service teachers understand the need and importance of convergence education in the digital age and to equip them with the ability to design and implement convergence education in practice, covering the following topics
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Contents |
Concepts and theories of fusion education |
- The concept and importance of inclusive education
- History and theoretical background of fusion education
- Changes and Challenges of Convergence Education
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Digital technology and blended learning |
- Convergence Education and Key Technologies in the Digital Age
- Technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of Things, and virtual reality and the potential for convergence education
- Differences between online education and convergence education and the possibility of parallelism
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Educational aspects of fusion education |
- Learner-centered blended learning methodologies
- Blended Learning and Problem Solving
- Project-based learning and blended learning
- Blended learning and creativity, collaboration, engagement, and empowerment
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Real-world examples and applications of blended learning |
- Analyzing real-world examples of blended learning
- Blended Learning Curriculum and Educator Roles
- Curriculum Development and Evaluation
- School Implementation and Outcomes
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Convergence and the future of education |
- The interplay between future education and fusion education
- Educational Challenges and Requirements of Future Education
- How fusion education will revolutionize future education
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