Korea promotes e-learning system for women’s career development

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Digital Inclusion, Education IT

By Gosia Klimowicz | 15 June 2012 | Views: 2371

Dream-wings (www.dream.go.kr) is a free online learning portal run by Gyeonggi Women’s Development Center (GWDC). It offers e-learning services and over 300 courses in office work, healthcare, social welfare, IT, foreign languages and hobbies.

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“Stay-at-home mothers wishing to get a job and working mothers looking for better career opportunities never have enough time for self-development. They find a favorable option with Dream-wings which can be accessed anywhere and anytime”, says Dr Cho Jung-ah, head of GWDC.

Dream wings-supports women’s career development, including finding a job or starting a new business. It started off in 2004 as a local website built for women living in Gyeonggi Province. Based on the research conducted by Samsung SDS, GWDC created a master plan offering e-learning services to women who have experienced an extensive period of career breaks. A year later, GWDC opened the online Gyeonggi Women Career Development Center, Korea’s first-ever free e-learning service for women. It began to offer nation-wide services in 2011. This year, GWDC introduced a mobile version of the portal - Smart Dream-wings.

Focused primarily on IT education, Dream-wings has expanded the scope of its services into total career development support by adding diagnostic services (e.g. competency diagnosis and employability diagnosis) and support for job placement and business start-up. The initiative is fully funded by the government.

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On 16 June 2012 bing kim wrote:

glad to know this kind of opportunity for women who knows someone can excel their unhidden skills and soon one of the contributor in s.korea economic.^^ Hope i can join also to this program.Goodluck to all mommies out there.God bless.

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