This photo, taken April 9, 2020, shows a high school student taking online classes at her home in Goyang, west of Seoul. (Yonhap)
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Public online schools that provide remote education on a real-time and two-way basis will be expanded across the country by next year to comply with the introduction of the high school credit system in 2025.
The Ministry of Education announced that it will additionally invite four offices of education to establish public online schools within the first half of this year, and plans to set up one public online school for each of the nation’s 17 cities and provinces by next year.
Public online schools have no affiliated students but are furnished with classrooms and teachers. They provide time-based education to high school students.
South Gyeongsang Province, Gwangju, Daegu and Incheon will open one public online school each in their region this year.
Four more regions will be added within the first half of this year and the remaining nine cities and provinces will start preparations to set up online schools in the latter half of this year or in 2024.
Public online schools basically offer remote education on a real-time and two-way basis, but they also hold face-to-face classes or online and offline-connected classes.
They will offer education primarily for the subjects that are hard to be taught by general offline schools due to a limited number of students, or subjects related to new industries.
Ashley Song (ashley@koreabizwire.com)
