This paper took a challenge with regard to this radical reaction for the conventional orientation about modern education. Present challenges in education and its reform trials are all surrounded by the freedom issue. To the extent how the freedom has been achieved over the times and places, education has been shaped to its institutional form in that time and places. Answering the question, this paper reviewed the traditions of freedom in education in the beginning and further to the present phenomena of transnationalism in education. Concluding implication of the paper is that all individuals shall be free to choose education to create themselves, choose the language to communicate with others, and choose the space to live on the flattening world by globalization; on the space, they shall meet the people to live with and build the community to live in. Education, therefore, must keep its first priority of cultivating individual’s capacity to possess and enjoy freedom. Education must be freed from the school boundaries, particularly those of which are doing the police of the nation state.

There have been significant changes to family values and the types of families have diversi-fied. This phenomenon gave way to the rise of the lower fertility and aging society, and could also cause disorganization or crisis of family in the future. It has now become necessary to build family-friendly values through the new education envi-ronment, Web 2.0. Social Network Service (SNS), the main idea of this study, represents one type of the new environment. It is a vital and well-matched concept with family-friendly val-ues. The paradigm shift in education has features such as interaction, relationship and com-munication. The purpose of this study was to suggest feasibility of Social Network Service for forming family-friendly values. To verify the feasibility, four family websites in Korea were examined with the research method of SWOT Analysis. To find strategies, SWOT factors were identified as follows; 1) Strength factors of Social Network Service for family-friendly values formation: free ser-vice, diverse functions, and global interactivity through language service. 2) Weakness factors: unstable, virtual disorder resulting from too many functions, and lack of user directedness. 3) Opportunity factors: increasing needs of family value education and improvement to mul-ticultural society. 4) Threat factors: digital literacy divide between old and new generation and decreasing time to communicate with family. In this study, the following seven strategies were extracted through SWOT analysis: 1) Practice educational paradigm shift: Web 2.0 2) Change educational settings in multicultural society 3) Challenge media convergence 4) Represent ability of ubiquitous learning 5) Promote interactivity across all age groups, taking into account life cycle 6) Present user-directed interfaces 7) Conduct instructional contents or curriculum with blended learning at K-12 Keywords: Family friendly values, Web 2.0, Learning 2.0, SWOT Analysis

“Learner engagement” in higher educ ation is a challenging goal, even more so as we consider designing for, and supp orting, lifelong learners online. Learning organizations, from traditional to cybersystems, are tempted to look for universal plans and strategies that promise specific and guaranteed outcomes for students. While there are some universal strategies worth considering that support online learner engagement, we must also familiarize our selves with diverse sociocultural contexts of lifelong learning and about the effect of “engagement” as an explicit conceptual framework for developing online learning environments. As we work to further devel op online learner engagement, we must also consider the impact of interactions between and among instructional designers, subject matter experts, instructors, learners, the broader community, and the learning institution. These interactions in culturally -based, dynamic communities of learning and practice shift instructional design away from the purely predictable towards engaged learning. In this discussion paper, originally pre sented as a conference paper for the e-Lea rning Asia Conference 2009, we contrast institutional and sociocultural (global) responses to lifelong learning in the online environment, share Canadian approaches to engaged learning and instructional design, and reflect upon key questions about the development of engaged learning opport unities for online learners.

In a knowledge-based society, advances in information and communication technology (ICT) require new paradigms in our society. In order to adapt to the current knowledge-based society, people must be familiar with ICT. In this sense, schools are responsible for educating students to how to deal with ICT in every aspect of their lives. In this paper, current status and future directions of ICT education in Korea are discussed. First, current status of ICT education is discussed. Two types of ICT education, literacy education and application education are introduced. Then, infrastructures supporting for adapting ICT use in education are introduced. Those infrastructures include laws and regulations, support for outstanding Municipal and Provincial Offices of Education, and educational information standardization, respectively. Finally, conclusions and future directions of ICT education in Korea are discussed.

People Net is a human technology approach driven service net and learning tool for poor and uneducated people in Asia. It is a service concept designed to ensure the target population’s access to how-to-knowledge information they require for advancing their lives. The key idea is to exploit mobile internet technologies, focusing on human action-oriented and culturally-sensitive ISD initiatives. The practices of openinnovation and open-source, open-access communities are especially fertile for developing ecologically valid, practical answers to concrete problems of deprived people in their environments. People Net intends to connect people with critical knowledge resources and deficits regarding every-day activities. The core of this project is to define the technology, knowledge content systems, and interaction modes for the service development. The aim is to make People Net participation and use sufficiently attractive and simple especially for uneducated citizens.