The Future of Education NEIS : National Education Information System

1. The Future of EducationNEIS : National Education Information System October 2010

2. Contents Ⅰ. Overview of NEIS Ⅱ. Concept of NEIS Ⅲ. Practical Uses Ⅳ. Expected Benefits Ⅴ. Examples of NEIS

3. Ⅰ. Overview of NEIS • Need for a more efficient, convenient, and innovative way of handling education administration • Need to share data and information among education administration organizations and other government departments • Selected as a top priority to establish a comprehensive e-government project to enhance efficiency and quality of general civil services NEIS is … • National Education Information System • Web-based integrated administrationsystem for Korea’s education organizations Background

4. Ⅰ. Overview of NEIS Goal • Improving efficiency, transparency and convenience in education • administration (Standard and system-based work process) • Reducing teachers’ work load and raising the quality of education by reorganizing the work process • Providing high quality educational services to citizens • - One-stop online issuance of official certificates • - Online service for parents (providing information of children school activities through NEIS) NEIS Operation Environment • NEIS is the Internet-based comprehensive service of administration on education for the employees of institutions for education administration, faculties of each school, parents and others. • - About 10,000 schools, 7,780,000 Students, 402,000 Teachers • - 180 Local Offices of Education, 16 Metropolitan/Provincial Offices of Education & MEST

5. Ⅱ. Concept of NEIS General Affairs School Affairs School Affairs Academic Affairs Academic Affairs Teacher/Non-teaching staff (Schools) Code Index G4C Service Statistics Concept view of NEIS Service General Affairs (Payroll, Facilities, HR Mgmt.. for staffs, etc..) School Server Systems Staffs (MPOEs, LOEs) School Affairs(Processing students grades, recording student activities and their performance, etc.. G4C Service Civil Service NEIS 16 MetropolitanㆍProvincial Offices of Education Statistics & Reports Civil Service (Home-Edu, Parent Service) (Online requirement and issuance of certificate, Getting info. of their child’s school activities) MEST Citizen/Parents

6. Ⅱ. Concept of NEIS Scopes • General Affairs • category : HR Management, Pay-roll, Facilities, Life-long Education, • Education Statistics, Legal Affairs, etc • School Affairs • category : Academic Affairs,Admission, School Meal, Student Health, • Physical Education • Civil Service

7. Ⅱ. Concept of NEIS Main features -Teachers • Transfer students handling • Processing the transfer student’s data online • Permanent School Record Management • NEIS produces a permanent school record after the teacher inputs school life information such as records, attendance, awards, etc. • School records Processing • NEIS has numerous menus related to the processing of school records. • Ex) OMR card reading, scoring, school record production and statistical analysis • The transfer of high school students’ permanent records for college admission • NEIS comprises an one-stop online distribution system between high schools and universities. • Universities receives the applicant’s data via the internet. • Automatic statistics • Redundant manual preparation of statistical work changed into automatic statistics

8. Ⅱ. Concept of NEIS Main features - General Public . Parents • Online issuance of official certificates • Online requesting and document issuance are processed online directly. • Sharing Administration Information between government branches • NEIS shares administration information, which reduces submissions and saves time for citizens. • Searching for your child’s information • Providing 38 kinds of contents to parents. Main features - Non-teaching staffs • Sharing Administration Information between government branches • No necessity for receiving and keeping paper documents from citizens • Convenient management of Human resources • NEIS manages teachers and non-teaching staffs in a Human Resource form.

9. School Ⅲ. Practical Uses NEIS –produced Information Service Public Announcement of School Information 47 kinds including the current status of teachers Educational Affairs DB Educational & Academic Affairs Students Statistics 38 kinds including school record Service for Parents Academic Achievement 교무업무시스템 Educational Affairs System 25 kinds including certification of graduation All certifications HR Affairs 화면 General Administration + School Administration DB Teachers Statistics 10 items including school record School Meal General Administration System Selection Data for College Admission Office of Education 201 items including school information Tailored Statistics Policy Statistics DB 33 items including the current status of schools Educational Statistics MiEST (Tailored statistics, educational statistics, etc..)

10. Ⅲ. Practical Uses

11. Ⅳ. Expected Benefits Teachers Reducing sundry duties and enhancing quality of education

12. Ⅳ. Expected Benefits

13. Ⅳ. Expected Benefits General PublicㆍParents Enhancing conveniences for citizens and parents

14. Ⅳ. Expected Benefits School Admin. Staff Enhancing efficiency in school administration

15. Ⅳ. Expected Benefits Economical Benefits - Summary Promotion of Domestic Software Industry • Domestic Linux independent server : 2,374 for academic affairs • Domestic Software usage : 93% ( 14 species out of 15 is domestic software) • Estimated budget of USD 52 million  Actual cost of USD 42 million: Savings of USD 10 million

16. Ⅴ. Examples of NEIS

26. NEIS Center, KERIS, Seoul, KOREA