Our University to Expand Online Lecture Servers... pre-emptive response brilliant university
- 공과대학
- Hit5313
- 2020-04-20
While major universities have extended the operation period of online lectures by one to two weeks, college students are increasingly interested in some schools, including Sungkyunkwan University, KAIST and Unist, which announced the operation of online lectures until the Corona 19 crisis stabilizes. If concerns over the coronal 19 group infection are not resolved, online classes at each university will have to be prolonged, which is why these school systems are believed to have presented some kind of guidelines.
Sungkyunkwan University is operating online lectures stably more than other universities because it was preparing a step ahead. Previously, Sungkyunkwan University decided to introduce 'challenge semester' and planned to open its first semester of this year in February, reduce the number of weeks of classes from 16 weeks to 15 weeks, and increase its summer vacation to three months.
Also included in the plan is the provision of all lectures online for the first and second weeks after the opening of the classes, increasing students' choice of classes. In preparation for this, the government had prepared infrastructure such as expanding servers and lines, considering that all students were simultaneously accessing online lectures depending on class time. It was only after such measures were taken that concerns over the Corona 19 infection spread. Sungkyunkwan University recently announced the period of operation of online lectures as 'Until Corona 19 situation is resolved' and announced additional supplementary measures to students and professors. Sungkyunkwan University proposed a plan to give undergraduate students three more credits each, and to increase the number of classes by up to 20 percent. It is also considering expanding the ratio of A+ to B grades from 65 percent of the existing number of students to 80 percent, considering when the academic schedule is centered on online lectures even after the midterm exam.
An official from Sungkyunkwan University said on the 26th, "In order to improve the quality of online lectures, we will recruit 200 undergraduate students as 'technical assistants' to support professors who have difficulty in producing lectures. We are planning to provide scholarships worth 1.5 million won each to students participating here." Technical assistant students check in advance whether the program is working properly and if there is no problem with the server before the professor starts an online lecture. According to the school, the plan is aimed at helping professors focus only on producing lectures. In addition, Sungkyunkwan University frequently checks the current status of 4,000 lectures in schools according to the ministry's previous guidelines that they should be composed of "at least 25 minutes per credit" when producing online. It was found that 90 percent of the lectures in the second week of the semester and 91 percent in the third week met the criteria. However, some students at Sungkyunkwan University complain about the school's plan to run online lectures.
"The tuition fee for a semester is over 12 million won, and networking in the school is an important course, and my colleagues are furious at the unilateral notification that I should only give online lectures throughout the semester," said a graduate student A. "There are talks about taking a semester off by taking a collective leave of absence."
[Reporter Moon Kwang-min]
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