Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

A study on the OECD Education 2030 project: Implementation strategies of future-oriented competency-based education

The second stage of the OECD Future of Education and Skills 2030 project (the OECD Education 2030 project, henceforth) aims to explore educational systems that help students develop competencies (knowledge, skills, attitudes and values) required for future society. And as part of the OECD Education 2030 project, this study identified global trends how schools are implementing competency-based education (CBE) and analyzed CBE cases in and out of South Korea, and finally explored the implementation strategies of CBE. The main research methods were literature review, qualitative case study, participation in OECD IWG meetings, and expert consultation meetings. To be specific, the study is comprised of three sections: (a) analysis on the implementation features of CBE in the OECD Education 2030 project; (b) analysis on the overseas cases of implementing CBE; and (c) case studies on the implementation of CBE in South Korea.