The purpose of this study is to search for a practical scheme through the need assessment of learners who participate in the programs and of program operation actual condition in the lifelong education school attached to a university. For that, the re...
The purpose of this study is to search for a practical scheme through the need assessment of learners who participate in the programs and of program operation actual condition in the lifelong education school attached to a university. For that, the researcher selected lifelong education schools of 5 universities located in Daegu, and conducted a questionnaire survey on 400 learners and some school managers participating in the programs.
The results of this study can be summarized as follows;
First, from the results of analysis of lifelong education school's program operational actual condition, it's found that lifelong education school attached to a university was established since the 1980's adapting social service as an idea of education. The organization is composed of, as its member, president or director, as well as subordinate organizations, separated board of operation. However, because of little financial support from government, local government, and university, they have been through a lot of difficulties in realizing the idea of lifelong education and in the operation of the school, and in addition, there are many problems including undiscriminated educational program, insufficient professional manpower, insufficient facilities, and program operation for university convenience' sake to solve.
Second, from the learners' need assessment, it's found that their purpose of the highest priority was to acquire credits and licence, and information media for selection of program was by persuasion from neighbors. Most learners have born the education expense by themselves, and a bottleneck in participating in program was insufficient time. As their items desired, they preferred a school term unit for educational time, AM 9-12 for educational time zone, two times for weekly educational times, 2 hours for one times education time, experiment & exercise for educational method, job-related specialized course for program, lifelong education school for educational institution. The matter of the highest priority to be improved was offering curriculum guide & information service, and in a degree of satisfaction with programs, the responds showed high degree for professors lecturers, they showed low degree for consulting information service.
Third, as some matters to improve in the operation of programs for the lifelong education school attached to a university, administrative financial support by central and local government, diversion of recognition and reform by university authority, close cooperation with local society, development of professional and specialized programs, diversification of educational period, method, and evaluation, supplement of professional manpower, introduction of lecturer information bank system and educational account system, intensified consulting & information service, and reform of educational circumstance are necessary.