Ministry of Education to Officially Launch Teacher-Exclusive Digital Content Platform 'Itda' on the 31st

Integrated Provision of Public and Private Educational Content
Support for Lesson Material Creation Tools to Easily and Conveniently Produce Teaching Materials

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Ministry of Education, 17 metropolitan and provincial offices of education, and the Korea Education and Research Information Service announced on the 30th that they have established a teacher-exclusive digital content operating system (platform) called 'ITDA' to support teachers in safely and conveniently creating and utilizing teaching materials, and will officially launch it on the 31st.

'ITDA' is a service that grows autonomously based on active communication between suppliers and consumers, moving away from the content supply paradigm led by institutions. ITDA first provides integrated access to educational content developed and held by public and private sectors so that it can be easily and quickly used in school settings. Through joint use with internal and external agencies, it has secured about 15,000 types of educational content, and plans to additionally provide EBS educational content currently being promoted this year. Currently, about 60,000 pieces of content from 27 government ministries, public institutions, and private organizations are scheduled to be sequentially uploaded, with plans to expand participating institutions in the future.

Furthermore, ITDA supports communication (community) functions such as 'Friend Making' and 'Teacher Channels' so that teachers can use content and utilization methods created by other teachers in their classes. Through 'Friend Making,' teachers nationwide can connect and share the teaching materials they have created. Additionally, through 'Teacher Channels,' teachers can share not only content they have produced but also usage and teaching methods with fellow teachers. In particular, teachers with strong content creation capabilities are selected as 'Channel of the Year' operators to help spread a culture of content sharing among teachers.

Based on the uploaded content, ITDA also provides authoring and utilization tools to enable teachers to create teaching materials easily and conveniently. It offers authoring tools with various templates so that teachers can create content directly, supports lesson package design tools that allow composing lessons using multiple contents, and provides evaluation systems that make it easy to create assessment questions and test papers.

Moreover, ITDA links various public and private services supporting educational activities such as 'Jisik Samteo,' 'Digital Textbooks,' and 'WeDoRang,' and allows convenient use through Edunet integrated authentication. Going forward, it plans to reflect the demands of school sites by discovering and linking diverse educational services to enhance teacher convenience.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Yoo Eun-hye said, "With the full launch of 'ITDA,' we expect to actively support online and offline classes of elementary and secondary school teachers by reducing the burden of creating teaching materials." She added, "Furthermore, I hope that ITDA, an operating system created based on communication among users, will develop into a core mechanism for new digital education support."

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