KERIS
KERIS is the Korea Education and Research Information Service, supported by the Korean Ministry of Education, working to promote eLearning, eAdministration, support policy making and enhance academic resource sharing. It operates three large networks for education: the National Education Information Service System EDUNET, the Research Information Service System RISS, and the National Education Information Service NEIS.

Pr Jung Sung Moo explained how EDUCNET is the leading educational information service system in Korean, giving access to education information to more than 5.9 million subscribers and establishing an online learning community. Currently all stakeholders of education in Korea are using the system which is supported regionally by 16 metropolitan and provincial offices of education. Eight directors of the local centres participated in the EUN visit.

From KERIS more information was given about projects such as the Cyber Home Learning System which provides students with after school learning services (self-directed) as well as providing internet based learning service (cyber teacher). Other projects demonstrated included the Digital Library system implemented as part of a larger Educational Resource Sharing system.

European Schoolnet
The European Schoolnet presented its work programme and a selection of projects linked to the interests of its Korean guests. These included for strand one successful school collaboration projects such as eTwinning (school partnerships online) and the newly launched eLearning Awards (school competition).

The EUN Office also presented the work done to build a federation of learning repositories, EUN’s Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) which brings together successful digital content tools and projects including CALIBRATE, CELEBRATE and MELT.

Finally, the EUN Office presented the Insight website, the EUN observatory for new technologies and education as well as the additional services for ministries it has developed recently included myInsight (RSS feeds), myInsight Community and the Insight Newsletter.

A discussion concluded the meeting with participants exchanging with the EUN Office on the state of eLearning in Europe and Korea, innovative practices in teacher education and the impact of eLearning on teaching and learning in schools.

A second visit is schedule in October with a similar delegation to visit the Sint-Pieterscollege in Jette, an innovative Belgian school.

http://english.keris.or.kr