Change Analysis and Development Direction of BK21 PLUS Project: Focusing on Social Big Data Analysis

Abstract

Fundamental changes are also emerging from the missions and roles in the university education and the contents and methods in the university education. In the changes of environments and constitutions in this university education, now is the time when more fundamental reflection is required and long-term and detailed plans are established regarding what is the image of university that people want, how to develop university education and how the financial support for university education should be changed. Meanwhile, BK21 PLUS (Brain Korea 21 PLUS) has been analyzed through the reports and related press releases. Recently, as smart devices and social media spread out rapidly, the amount of data is increasing exponentially and Big Data Age arrives where the data can become an economic asset while making big changes in data production, distribution and consumption, now is the time to analyze the public awareness about the government policy through social big data analysis. Therefore, this paper analyzed the changes of the project through the analysis of social big data focusing on the university financial support project, especially on BK21 PLUS Project which is a research-oriented university support project, and presented the development direction of this project in an exploratory level. In the tentative BK21 FOUR project which will newly start in 2021, differentiation is required to select only the top 15% of universities as research-oriented university. First, in the aspects of human resource development, a virtuous autogenous ecosystem should be established for higher education. A system should be designed to construct virtuous ecosystem and utilization plans of manpower should be improved. Second, in the aspects of research competitiveness, efforts should be made to strengthen the quality of balanced research competence. In order to strengthen autonomous competition and research competitiveness, project reorganization should be made focusing on project teams.