The Center for International Affairs of the Academy of Korean Studies held the ‘Online Textbook Seminar for Educators of Jordan’ for two days from November 22 to 23, 2021. The training program, which was associated with the “Program for the Expansion of the Korean Development Technology Awards”  of the South Korean Embassy in Jordan, was carried out via an online meeting using the Zoom platform and a face-to-face meeting held in Jordan.

About 40 officials from the Jordanian Ministry of Education's Textbook and Curriculum bureaus, and the Curriculum Research Center under the Ministry of Education participated in the training program, which was designed to share mutual experiences in education and operation of the textbook system.

The program included presentations and lectures on the subjects such as "Korean Education System and Textbook System," "Jordanian Education System and Textbook System," "Mutual Understanding through Korean and Jordanian Textbooks," and “Korea’s Economic Growth.” They provided an opportunity for the participants to share and exchange information and opinions on education and textbooks of the two countries, and Korea's economic development experience.

The two sides also agreed that they need to continue efforts to increase mutual understanding of the two countries’ history, culture and society in order to establish developmental relations and that they explore ways to share experiences in mutual understanding and development on the basis of education and textbooks.