Mokpo University’s Digital AI Education Center is leading the tutorial revolution within the digital era by disseminating AI-based educational capabilities to elementary, middle, and highschool teachers across the country through the ‘2024 Visiting School Consulting’ project.
This system held at Yeonggwang Baeksu Elementary School to strengthen AI utilization capabilities taught teachers learn how to use digital tools resembling Google Classroom and Whale Book, and emphasized convergence with traditional educational methods.
So as to cultivate field-oriented solution skills, we provided customized training centered on practice and discussion to bridge the digital literacy gap and solve technical problems.
Gwangmoon Cho, head of the LEAD business unit, said, “We are going to create a culture of AI-based education innovation targeting 12,000 schools.”
Mokpo University’s consulting focuses on going beyond easy technology delivery and helping teachers use AI and digital tools with confidence to rework the classroom environment.
Suncheon National University establishes a bridgehead for local industry and education with Green Bio Seungju Campus
Suncheon National University is presenting an progressive model that concurrently fosters local talent and revitalizes industry through the ‘Green Bio Seungju Temporary Campus’.
The independent Seungju Campus provides ‘field-based education’ that mixes theory and practice through field trips and hands-on lectures for food engineering students.
We plan to ‘strengthen local specialized industries’ by expanding practical training programs linked to the Jeonnam-style Balanced Development 300 Project, resembling food, cosmetics, and alternative proteins. As well as, we are going to promote contribution to the local economy and revitalization of the commercial ecosystem by establishing a joint cooperation model for local industry and science.
Suncheon National University’s Glocal University 30 project focuses on solving the issue of manpower shortage and revitalizing the local economy through customized education for local industries.
What the 2 universities have in common and their value as glocal universities
Mokpo National University is pursuing AI education innovation, and Suncheon National University is pursuing a ‘regional customized format’ that presents a region’s specialized development direction specializing in the green bio industry.
Emphasis was placed on ‘reference to the sector’ by leveraging the strengths of digital education and the bio industry to construct a practical education and industrial ecosystem closely related to local residents.
In this manner, the 2 universities play a pivotal role in connecting the region and the world of their respective specialized fields, and are making a model of coexistence between the area people and universities.
Jeonnam’s two national universities are leading the longer term of glocal universities that grow along with the region through the 2 axes of cutting-edge technologies, AI and bio, and are establishing themselves as symbols of progressive education and industrial development.
Reporter Yang Jun-seok kailas21@aitimes.com
