IGEE at Yonsei University

Providing digital education contents for the digitally marginalized elderly

Holding a lecture by experts in diverse fields and leading to the discussion within the school

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Professor Kyung Sun Doh

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In May 2020, the IHEI, the Institute for Higher Education Innovation selected 706 students from 163 teams in six fields of a workstation supporting a total of 550 million KRW subsidy to solve social problems and create social values. It is the largest student activity support in Korea at a single university, and is a venue to share the achievements of this workstation student activity.Unlike the COVID-19 crisis, which has dampened the activities of university students compared to previous years, this project has been found to have carried out more activities both online and offline. In order to revitalize student-led social problem-solving projects, the IHEI selected 10 PRO teams from six areas (Public Value Learning, Global Social Entrepreneurship, Social Value Management, OT2, Social Innovation Network, and Social Venture startups).Yonsei University's IHEI actively supported student-led social problem-solving projects, took the lead in linking with external institutions and continuing social problem-solving activities to support SDG 4.4 achievement.

Yonsei University signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Naver Business Platform (NBP) for "cooperation in building cloud-based online education platforms and developing joint projects."Yonsei Universeity has established an online education platform called "Y-EdNet" (changed to LearnUs later) to enter the global education market based on Naver's technical support and NBP's cloud services.LEARNING & PRACTICEIn May 2020, the IHEI, the Institute for Higher Education Innovation selected 706 students from 163 teams in six fields of a workstation supporting a total of 550 million KRW subsidy to solve social problems and create social values. It is the largest student activity support in Korea at a single university, and is a venue to share the achievements of this workstation student activity.Unlike the COVID-19 crisis, which has dampened the activities of university students compared to previous years, this project has been found to have carried out more activities both online and offline. In order to revitalize student-led social problem-solving projects, the IHEI selected 10 PRO teams from six areas (Public Value Learning, Global Social Entrepreneurship, Social Value Management, OT2, Social Innovation Network, and Social Venture startups).Yonsei University's IHEI actively supported student-led social problem-solving projects, took the lead in linking with external institutions and continuing social problem-solving activities to support SDG 4.4 achievement.Yonsei University and Naver decided not only to expand their initial platforms but also to cooperate in developing joint projects using artificial intelligence (AI) technology based on educational big data and Korean voice big data that will occur on Y-EdNet in the future.This helps achieve SDG 4.3 by cooperating with Naver to build a platform that supports the next-generation education method that combines online and offline classes and sharing the experiences and know-how of Naver's online platform business.

“SDG? It’s IGEE(Easy)” is a video contest where Yonseians can share their own way of achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

#Vision_Impaired #Right_to_Study #Educational_Inequality #Braille

"Sunflower" is a student team formed in the "Our Town Living Lab" run by SK SUNNY and Yonsei University College of Engineering. It develops translation software that can easily and quickly convert math textbooks into braille for the vision-impaired. Check out the key features of "Sunny Braille"!

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Institute for Higher Education Innovation (IHEI, click) at Yonsei University aims to nurture future talents who actively tackle and resolve issues by supporting courses (curricular) and student projects (extracurricular) achieving social innovation.

Social Innovation Competency Courses (Curricular)
IHEI encourages professors(researchers) to design courses that can bridge the gap among concepts, theories, and real-world problems. Every semester, IHEI has been assessing the results of running these courses, based on

1. Number of courses
2. Methodology (e.g. debates, problem-solving projects, experiments)
3. Feedbacks from students

Workstations (Extracurricular)
"Workstation" refers to a student-led proejct which deals with resolving issues defined by each team. IHEI recently has conducted research with various organizations on how these programs by Yonsei University can impact Korean society. According to these results, IHEI tries to track how student activities accumulated by years can make significant changes.