The Asia ConneXions program at the UNE SiMERR National Research Centre signed a three-way Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the NSW Department of Education (NSW DoE) and the Jeollanamdo Office of Education (JOE) in South Korea last week.

The significance of this MoU is the NSW DoE’s recognition of the Asia ConneXions program for providing global education opportunities to NSW rural and regional schools by connecting them with Korean and Japanese schools using the Connected Classroom Program.

To date the Asia ConneXions program has connected 61 NSW government schools with Korea and Japan with the accumulated number of years of all the NSW schools’ video links totalling 108 years.

The Asia ConneXions program is now in its seventh year, and has set a strategic plan for 2016-2020 for UNE to be the Global Education Leader for Schools using HD videoconferencing technology.

For more information, contact Dr Myung-Sook Auh, Program Director of the Asia ConneXions program: mauh@une.edu.au or 02 6773 2917.