Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

Strategic Planning for the Advancement of the Teaching-Learning Quality in Higher Education (Ⅴ)

The objective of this study is to investigate and analyze the current state and characteristics of Korean higher education by utilizing data collected on teachers and learners’ perceptions and behaviors and to make strategic policy suggestions for the advancement of the teaching-learning quality in higher education. In addition, this study also attempts to provide a comprehensive outlook on the problems and issues of the overall system of teaching-learning in Korean higher education, as this study also investigates two-year junior colleges along with four-year universities in dealing with the issues of teaching-learning in higher education.

This study is the final stage of the 5 year-long study which has been conducted over the last four years. It has taken an approach to expand subjects who participated in the study year by year. The study started with analyzing the data collected from the participants who consisted of four year university students in the first year and expanded the scope of participants into four year university professors, two-year junior college students, junior college professors year by year. The 5th year study which was conducted in 2017 collected comprehensive data that covered students and professors of four year universities and students and professors of junior colleges about teaching-learning process of higher education institutions (36,000 students who attend 68 four year universities and 2,041 professors who work in 64 four year universities and 12,000 students who attend 28 junior colleges and 607 professors who work at junior colleges).