Pusan National University offers a variety of programs developed to improve the teaching and administration skills of its faculty members, thereby improving the overall quality of its educational offerings and promoting the development of global curriculums that respond to the era of globalization with a view to establishing e-Learning study systems which will be poised to take the lead in the information era.

Major programs that strengthen the teaching skills of faculty:

• Support improvements in the teaching methods of professors and instructors
• Support the preparation and use of teaching materials
• Research and develop customized training courses
• Provide consulting for teaching improvement
• Publish guidebooks as well as hold seminars and workshops on improving teaching methods
• Consult on the preparation and use of e-Learning teaching materials

Group Consulting

1. Purpose

• Our customized teaching improvement consulting services provide support to faculty members by fully reflecting the teaching methods required by the unique character of each department, major, project team, and institution. The customized teaching improvement consultations aim to help faculty members in more realistic and practical ways than the workshops or seminars previously held for the entire faculty in aggregate, which only addressed general approaches to enhancing overall teaching abilities. This Service That Visits You, in particular, promotes seminars and workshops on teaching methods that are individually tailored for you.

2. Goals

• To mobilize the community of educators to share teaching methods
• To provide realistic and practical information about teaching methods
• To promote customized consultations as a group, not only to individuals

3. Major Support

• To provide professional consulting for each subject required by each organization
• To provide materials related to teaching method issues
• Issues certificates to support external evaluations

4. Operation Methods

• Submit an official request to the Teaching and Learning Support Center (although dates may be open, locations should be specified by the requesting organization)
• Seminars on teaching methods will be given by related professionals on the themes requested by each department, organization, and project team, providing an opportunity to share a wealth of information on improving teaching among faculty members
• Duration for the workshops and seminars on teaching methods: 2 to 2.5 hours

5. Benefits

• Creates a productive environment to improve teaching skills
• Increases the satisfaction of professors through support of the actual, customized teaching methods
• Accumulates teaching method materials according to the unique needs of each major through a continuing relationship with the organization that submitted the application

6. Process

• Submit an official request to the head of the Teaching and Learning Support Center (proposals and application forms)
• Apply as a group such as college, institution, department, project team, etc
• Encourage the participation of deans, heads of departments, heads of institutions, and project directors
• Submit requests by application
• Applicant enters into a discussion with the center: confirms the time and place

7. How to Apply for Participation

• A. Qualification for participation: Professors, lecturers, researchers, and others belonging to any college, department, institution, and project team (no limit on the number of participants)
• B. Time: Anytime (but need to consult with the center for scheduling)
• C. Application Method: Download application form and submit it to the center by email through the appropriate person at each college, department, institution, and project team.
• D. Email: pctl@pusan.ac.kr
• E. Contact: Teaching and Learning Support Center, Student Center #217 (Department of Faculty and Staff Development 3840 or 3842)

Please contact us for more information.

Personal Consulting

1. Purpose

• Personal consulting provides intensive, one-on-one consultations to improve teaching methods following an analysis of a faculty member’s class-related difficulties.

2. Contents

• This program includes all the classroom-related content needed by the professor such as diagnosis and improvement classes, self-evaluations of teaching, drafting a syllabus, student management, preparation and use of media, e-learning, strategies for assessment, strategies for synchronization, strategies for teaching, and so on.

3. Methods

• The consultation is processed through self-analysis based on the recorded classes, or individual, clinical consulting.

4. Application for Consulting

• Apply online
• Apply by phone or e-mail:
  • e-mail : pctl@pusan.ac.kr
  • Phone : 510-3842~3

The results of the all the group and individual consultations are confidential.

Cyber Classroom Linkus

• Is there any way we can systematically manage diverse lecture content?
• How can we systematically support lecture management?
• Is there any way that professors can diversify their interaction with students?
• How can we conveniently handle student learning management, exams and evaluations,assignments, and questions and answers?

The Linkus Program is a management system which manages professors’ diverse teaching materials and other students’ administration affairs, including learning processes and evaluations, online based on the understanding of the above problems.

Through cyber classrooms, professors can interact with students in order to systematically manage the diverse learning resources necessary for their lectures. They can also conveniently handle learning status, assignments, evaluations, and Q&A. Professors can also manage the teaching materials they need every year and can easily transfer previously used teaching materials over to the current year. Most importantly, students like the results of the program.

Main Content

Curriculum design

• Create and manage syllabuses
• Information management for the lecture’s progress
• Setting the evaluation criteria

Class management

• Retrieve the status of learning for related courses
• Register a wide range of content
• Manage learning materials

Guide for learning

• Provide feedback on projects
• Give tests and retrieve grades
• Retrieve the status of an individual student’s learning process
• Manage each student’s study progress
• Distribute assignments