In this research, based on a very popular EBS CSAT courses, analyzed their characteristic and through these, this study aimed to find out online course's new strategy for better competitiveness. This study chose and focused on the three research point...
In this research, based on a very popular EBS CSAT courses, analyzed their characteristic and through these, this study aimed to find out online course's new strategy for better competitiveness. This study chose and focused on the three research points. First of all, research on the characteristic of the popular course's teaching system. Second, research on the feature of the popular course's learning promotion system. Third, research on the characteristic of the popular course's online consultation and other interaction side facts.
This study, during four month, researched on the teacher who got the 1st in 2013 EBS CSAT preference survey and the lecture course. Data collected in three different ways. First, 57 lectures compose the Korean Language course, and researched on 10 selected lectures out of 5 different parts in speech, composition, grammar, reading, and literature. Second, collected replies and posts on online board during two month from the beginning. This board was open to every learners. Third, had a personal interview with the teacher and the program director. The interview proceeded with semi-structured method in one hour each.
Categorized collected informations into different units. With these informations, researcher self-formulated the informations and deducted to 30 specific parts. At the same time, used the analysis of frequency to draw out results on research. As a next step, examined 30 characteristics and deducted to 20 characteristics upon examination, 4 other teachers over 10 years of teaching career and 4~5 years of teaching in EBS participated. At last, in an individual featuring analysis step, compared with other teachers or with other lectures to see differentiation factors of the lecture. Through this examination, at first, deducted 20 characteristics to 10 lower categories, and through the final examination that combines all the prior research results, got three categories in conclusion. Here are characteristics of the preferred online lecture.
First, in a 'teaching' section, preferred teacher provided abundant learning contents, and organized concepts structurally. While solving problems, not only teacher explained the concept and analyzed types of problems deeply, but also developed various learning contents to provide learners with. This was possible because the teacher had a profound level of academic knowledge. The teacher understood well on the inherent features of online courses, and made the best use on her lectures. This characteristic supports a portion of the prior research's characteristics. A considerable point in this research was an attitude of the preferred teacher during her teaching. Even though online lecture is conducted in a different situation compared with an indoor lecture, the teacher processed her lecture naturally similar to the offline lecture. Moreover, the teacher prepared and planned teaching materials beforehand to use best on his lecture.
Second, in a 'learning promotion' section, the preferred teacher fully devoted herself to motivating the learners and providing effective learning methods as a facilitator. At the beginning of every lectures, ventilated a mood to bring up learners to be motivated to study, and emphasized self-directed learning. The teacher not only provided learning contents, but also helped learners to utilize those materials well. Through this research, one of the most considerable characteristic of the teacher as a learning motivator was guide learners to do a self-directed learning, and introduced proper studying method to improve learner's grades. The teacher communicated and provided with learners through online board frequently because the teacher understood the feature of learners situation whose preparing CSAT.
Third, in a 'Consultation and interaction' section, the preferred teacher narrowed a gap between a teacher and learners by sharing teacher's personal situation and personal information. This was effectual on learners to create closer relationship with the teacher because of most of the students were preparing for CSAT and they needed someone to rely on. The teacher used online board to create interaction between learners and teacher, wrote comments on learner's post, and tried to have closer relationship with learners by calling each learner's name. Through the observation on lecture of the preferred teacher, the teacher were keep asking questions to imaginary learners while recording a lecture to bring out interaction. These virtual interactions helped learners think they are having face to face studying.
In a conclusion, the decisive factors that elicit high preference from learners in online courses were a teacher's professionalism, a teacher's passion, and the teacher's ability to create a deep relationship with learners. A preferred online teacher had outstanding professionalism in teaching. In terms of the counseling and interaction the teacher shared her experience and supported the learners individually, so they could create deep relationship with the learners. It had been proved that such characteristics of the preferred teacher were mostly concentrated in 'empathy'. The result of this research on the preferred teacher's characteristics could be useful used on producing other new online courses.