HCM City Open University offers e-learning courses. (Photo courtesy of the university)
HCM City (VNA) - Moreuniversities in Vietnam are taking advantage of IT to improve access to highereducation and the quality of training.
Dr Vu Huu Duc, Vice Rector of HCM City OpenUniversity, said that the university’s many e-learning courses had helpedstudents save time and money. E-learning courses are provided in accounting,law, auditing of international business, and other majors.
By 2020, the university will expand e-learningcourses in technology, Duc said, adding that it had set up an e-learning centreto manage the courses.
At the university’s Department of Accounting andAuditing, for instance, students study 90 percent of theory online and come tothe university campus for practical lessons.
Dr Nguyen Quoc Chinh, Director of the Centre forEducational Testing and Quality Assessment under Vietnam National University -HCM City, said that its three memberuniversities were developing distance learning and blended learning in whichstudents view lectures, access readings, ask questions, and completeassignments online in virtual learning environments.
The participating universities are theUniversity of Science, University of Technology, and University of InformationTechnology. The universities allow no more than 20 percent of credits ine-learning courses.
Dr Nguyen Trung Nhan, head of the trainingdivision at Industrial University of HCM City, said several of itsinternational and high-quality programmes had been using blended training formany years. All of its departments are encouraged to use this methodology.
Dr Do Van Dung, Rector of HCM City University ofTechnology and Education, said the management system of e-learning courses hadreduced the need for lecturers’ testing and evaluation tasks.
On the website of the Ministry of Education andTraining, Dinh Tuan Long, Director of the Centre for Technology-LearningMaterials under Hanoi Open University, said that e-learning courses helpedlearners work independently and gave them access to abundant sources ofinformation.
The e-learning methodology is useful fortraditional learning courses, he said, adding that its 2,000 lecturersand officials were asked to help set up an electronic system.
Chinh of the Centre for Educational Testing and QualityAssessment said that e-learning courses were becoming more popular but thatdegrees with the courses were still not appreciated. Most e-learning coursesare taken by people who want to engage in lifelong learning.
Experts said the Ministry of Education andTraining should draw up more detailed regulations to control the quality ofe-learning courses, and recognise degrees that include e-courses only so thatstudents can be accepted by employers.-VNA
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HCM City Open University offers e-learning courses. (Photo courtesy of the university) 
