Video lecture for bedridden students

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Video lecture for bedridden students

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The Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development (DOE) plans to put a video lecture program in place from August to help bedridden students.

A ministry official said the video lecture is designed to provide students hospitalized for long periods opportunities for learning through an individualized, online video-on-demand learning system available at home or at hospitals.

Education offices in Seoul, Incheon and South Gyeongsang Province (Gyeongnam) have been given a 497 million won special subsidy for the pilot operation of the video lecture system.

For 247 of 1,024 sick students who wish to have the video lectures, the video lecture will be provided by the Seoul Education Research & Information Institute (65 students), the Incheon Education Support Center (18 students) and the Gyeongnam Office of Education (165 students).

The video lecture is based on one-on-one teaching in real time through the Internet that is composed of a cyber class for each year and class. Each teacher will have five to eight students so that teaching can be tailored to specific needs.

Most students with serious or chronic illnesses cannot attend classes due to long-term treatment. The new program will enable the students to study at home or hospital via the Internet through the operation of the video lecture.

And, by interacting with peers and teachers via video, they will be assisted a great deal in preparing for their return to school or adapting to society.

The Gyeongnam branch of Korean Association for Children with Leukemia and Cancer has been offering video lectures to 23 students suffering from leukemia since October 2004.

 

 

Vocabulary List

Chronic ?describes an illness or medical condition that lasts over a long

                    period and sometimes causes long-term change in the body.

Subsidy ?a grant or gift of money from a government to a private company,

                    organization, or charity to help it to function.

                    - a monetary gift or contribution to somebody or something,

                    especially to pay expenses.

Tailor ?to make or adapt to suit a special need or purpose.

 

 

Questions:

>> What do you think of the video lecture program that the ministry of

       education plans to introduce this month?

>> Before this program was created, how did bedridden students take their

       lessons during their hospitalization?

>> What do you think would be the good and bad effects of this program?

>> How would you feel about this program if you were in the position of

       bedridden students? How about their parents?

>> When you were still studying, did you have any classmates who got

       hospitalized for a long period of time? If so, why were they hospitalized?

>> Do you think having this video lecture program can fully prepare bedridden

       students for their return to school or adapting to society?

>> What other methods can we utilize to help bedridden students catch up with

       their lessons in school?