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	Konkuk University to Foster Talents to Meet Demand of New Digital Technology for Immersive Media
	관리자		1310		2021.06.04

Konkuk University (President Young Jae Jeon) has been nominated as the host university of the "Innovative Sharing College for New Digital Technology Talent Training" in which universities develop and operate joint curricula to foster major talents in the new technology industry. Konkuk University plans to establish a cooperative system with Kyung Hee University, Keimyung University, Pai Chai University, Jeonju University, Chung-Ang University, Kaywonwon University of Art and Design, industry • research institutes and academic • private institutions where they can develop the project in the form of accreditation and degree-seeking programs with online courses and experiment operational guidelines that can be shared among the universities. The university also operates a specialized course that provides startup business education to strengthen competitiveness of immersive technologies and students majoring in immersive media content • human design. President Jeon said, “Through this project, we will foster creative convergence talents who lead immersive media industry, a new technology of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” <img width="555" height="345" style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; display: block;" alt="" src="ArticleFile.do?id=11820930" />                                    　　　　　　　　　　　　　　      
Operation of immersive media curriculum and industry-linked programs to foster global, creative convergence talents in immersive media The participating universities including Konkuk University plan to manage the project under the vision of ‘Cultivating global talents with creative convergence and immersive media shared university based on mutual cooperation’. In order to manage the project, it will introduce sustainable and self-supporting immersive media education system, establish and spread convergent education model between universities, and spread the value of university-corporation-community cooperation. Konkuk University will open classes of immersive media programming and core technology for the immersive media class module, and will plan to start classes of immersive media cooperation projects and metaverse content design for the immersive media content • human design class module. Meanwhile, the startup class module includes classes of immersive media startup (basic and intermediate) and immersive media business thinking 1•2. The curriculum consists of various forms such as linked major, minor, combined major and graduate-linked courses. Field professionals from the related industry will participate in each curriculum to enhance ▲ ‘Immersive Media Content Capability’ related to content design and composition ▲ ‘Immersive Media and Human Design Capability’ related to arts and cognition ▲ ‘Immersive Media Technology Capability’ related to videos and Artificial Intelligence. The immersive media curriculum educates students, makes plans and drives performances with the development of a curriculum based on domestic and foreign competency standards (NCS, KQF, SFIA and IP3). Konkuk University will also set a curriculum that improves social problem-solving skills based on living lab experiences at a regional and national level. More importantly, it will provide startup business education for students majoring in immersive media technology, immersive media content and human design, which are fundamentals of immersive media. Konkuk University will reinforce a variety of international exchange programs as well as global mind-based competitiveness with the joint operation of international exchange, education and curriculum. Furthermore, it will implement 4+1 and 2+2+1 program that are mutually recognized by participating universities. 
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Establishment of a virtual campus, an independent shared university for immersive media with creative convergence 
Maximizing features and advantages of consortium by dividing roles of university Konkuk University establishes a virtual campus, an independent shared university for immersive media, in order to smoothly participate in the project. Its goal is to actively foster creative convergence talents for immersive media in the global era by maximizing features and advantages of consortium along with division and sharing of participating universities’ roles as well as their mutual complement. While Konkuk University manages technology convergence education and shared university portal, Chung-Ang University operates startup business education and Center for Startup Support. Kyung Hee University will proceed XP core technology education and XP technology testbeds, and Kaywonwon University of Art and Design will be in charge of design • practice education and operation of metaverse studio. Pai Chai University plans to conduct cultural arts and immersive media education throughout regional connection, Jeonju University will carry out content • design education and activities for social problem-solving, and Keimyung University projects international education • public testbeds. Konkuk University also operates bachelor sharing system of shared university for joint operation of curriculum and courses. The system will play a significant role to connect students and each university, and will strive to manage the quality of educational content by running the competency management system of shared university. ‘X-Space’, a cutting-edge immersive media education space, will be built as an education space. As a shared space for regional base immersive media projects, X-Space will build a practical environment for industries conducting testbeds/living labs related to startups and local industries. A staff at Konkuk University stated, “The main feature of the immersive media consortium is that it is composed of private universities, thus it is possible to learn problem-awareness and solving skills for realistic issues facing most private universities,” adding, “We have built a virtual campus for a shared university with an independent model so that it can be sustainable even after the termination of national funding support. Moreover, we plan to further expand and commercialize education with extension college, lifelong education center and educational institutions.” <img width="390" height="447" style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; display: block;" alt="" src="ArticleFile.do?id=11820928" /> <img style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; display: block;" alt="" src="ArticleFile.do?id=11820939" /> <img style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; display: block;" alt="" src="ArticleFile.do?id=11820940" />
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