Recently private computer institutes face many difficulties in management. They are trouble due to not only internal problems such as their managers lack of adequate management ability and the financial difficulties in purchasing high cost hardware an...
Recently private computer institutes face many difficulties in management. They are trouble due to not only internal problems such as their managers lack of adequate management ability and the financial difficulties in purchasing high cost hardware and software, but also external problems such as supervision of illegal copy of softwares, free teaching to the large companies, the appearance of the large-scale foreign institutes, and computer education at schools by private enterprises.
In this respect this study aims to identify some problems in the aspects of management, of policy, of educational situation, and of educational contents of computer institutes whose goal is to train technical experts and able professionalists in the information society, and to solve these problems.
In conclusion, some solution can be obtained as follows:
First, in order to compensate for the shortage of students in the future, the institutes have to prepare for cyber-education for the coming information era, and strengthen publicity for computer subjects, a credit bank system, and a system of admission priority to students with excellent computer skills on the 2002 university entrance examination, and reinforce marketing activities by means of all kinds of brochures, telemarketing, and internet. Moreover, reemployees and recipients of the benefits of the Livelihood Protection Law have to be allowed to take computer courses.
Second, tuition and fees must be fixed by report, and active investment for equipment must be conducted to enhance competitive power, and requirements of a qualified instructor must be readjusted to real situations so that any junior college graduate who completed a prescribed course may obtain his teaching qualification after being trained by the Computer Institute Association or other training institutes of its same level. In addition, proper administrative control must be carried out in order to avoid a lowering of standards and excessive competition resulting from opening so many institutes in a disorderly way.
Third, the curriculum must be differentiated from that of other educational institutes, to attract textbooks must be developed cooperating with the other local institutes in order many cultivate their abilities to be applied real life.
Finally, a lifelong membership system must be executed for realization of an ideal education atmosphere of trust. The basic direction of the computer institute is toward multi-media education based upon education for information and communication. Continuing education based upon teaching of internet, on-line and home office must be realized for training experts in information and communication for the information society of the 21st century. The curriculum for multi-media education including the electronic publication and making electronic albums must be various. And professionalization and variety covering the internet, the computer language, computer contests, stenography, certificates for computer experts, animation, computer games, the credit system authorized by the Ministry of Education must be realized, and then the computer institute can hold a solid position as an authorized educational institution.