Vietnam National University continues to adopt CDIO
The Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM) will continue to adopt conceiving-designing-implementing-operating (CDIO) as the framework for its member universities’ curriculum planning and outcome-based assessment until 2020.
Assoc Prof Dr Huynh Thanh Dat, president of the Vietnam National University- Ho Chi Minh City, speaks about the importance of conceiving-designing-implementing-operating in churning out skilled human resources (Photo courtesy of VNUHCM)
HCM City (VNA) - The Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City(VNUHCM) will continue to adopt conceiving-designing-implementing-operating(CDIO) as the framework for its member universities’ curriculum planning andoutcome-based assessment until 2020.
At its conference held on December 4 to review implementation of the CDIOInitiative since 2010, the university also called for adopting the frameworkfor the country’s entire higher education system to develop an educationalmodel appropriate for Industry 4.0.
The CDIO Initiative focuses on incorporating entrepreneurial thinking intechnical programmes whose students are often very technically skilled and knowhow to solve well-defined and often non-realistic problems.
The initiative was designed as an innovative educational framework forproducing the next generation of engineers.
But the VNUHCM has also adopted it for non-engineering majors at some memberuniversities.
Assoc Prof Dr Nguyen Hoi Nghia, Vice President of the VNUHCM, said the CDIO Initiativeis a standard educational framework to help set up and carry out trainingprogrammes to achieve comprehensive development of knowledge, skills, virtue,and capacity.
Graduates from universities that have adopted the initiative have been able towork in other member economies of the ASEAN Economic Community and elsewhere inthe world, he said.
Thirteen universities in Vietnam have learnt about the CDIO for possibleadoption while more than 100 universities around the world have already adoptedit.
A representative of VNUHCM-University of Technology, whose mechanicalengineering faculty was one of the first two departments to adopt theinitiative in 2009, said many enterprises have appreciated its alumni’scommunication, teamwork and leadership skills.
According to VNUHCM-University of Social Sciences and Humanities, it hasadopted the CDIO model in its journalism and communication, English linguisticsand literature, and education management courses since 2015, and it has playeda vital role in improving quality.-VNA
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Assoc Prof Dr Huynh Thanh Dat, president of the Vietnam National University- Ho Chi Minh City, speaks about the importance of conceiving-designing-implementing-operating in churning out skilled human resources (Photo courtesy of VNUHCM) 
