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number: /2021
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Governments have recognized the use of information and communication technology in education, making it more accessible and inclusive. Besides, it also a means to achieve one of the 17 sustainable development goals of the United Nations which is the provision of quality education and promotion of lifelong learning. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to some realizations. The sudden shift to online learning affected the lives of educators, academic staff and students alike. The digital divide has also become more apparent as many students did not only have access to desktop computers and laptops but mobile data charges could also be expensive. Moreover, the digital skills of teachers and learners to enable them to teach and learn online were not readily available. The use of e-learning enables students to develop digital competencies. In e-learning, they build their online skills as well as expand their technological capacities. Hence, this paper aims to discuss e-learning and digital literacy in the Philippines, including: Discuss the rise of e-learning and digital literacy in the Philippines in the context of the University of the Philippines Open University; Present the challenges of e-learning and digital literacy in the country; Discuss the strategies adopted by the government related to digital literacy and e-learning; and Present prospects and perspectives on the future of e-learning and digital literacy in the Philippines.
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Physical education (PE) is currently one of the top concerns of education in modern society, given its critical role in promoting sustainable development of human capital in society. Different from the high priority of physical education in the educational system of developed countries, this subject has not been given sufficient focus in many developing countries, including Vietnam. This article aims to provide a dataset of self-awareness and perception about PE practices of 1069 PE teachers at elementary schools from 26 provinces throughout Vietnam. Some recommended analysis techniques to utilize this dataset are also proposed. The dataset is expected to provide the necessary materials for further research about PE practices in developing contexts, which facilitates educators and policymakers to acquire a better understanding of PE promotion in an educational setting.
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Through the data survey (using the questionnaires promoted by Nguyen and colleagues, 2014) with one hundred and fifty 9thgrade students at Nghia Tan secondary school located in Hanoi city of Vietnam, the paper describes the practice of their competence of self-regulated learning (specified in their off-class time). The limitations in the 9th graders’ competence of self-regulated learning in out-ofclass time are also revealed and pointed out, including such extents as students’ low reading speed, lack of taking notes skill, their notwell-oriented revision. Since then, the current paper provides recommendations on the role of secondary school teachers in forming and promoting their learners’ competence of out-of-class self-regulated learning, specifically teachers’ classroom guidance and their ways to support students’ learning
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Global citizenship education is becoming one of the strategies of education development in particular and human resource development in general. In this trend, Vietnam P-12 National Curriculum (issued 2018) has focused on educational objectives about sustainable and students’ competency development of UNESCO and Vietnam comprehensive education innovation. This article points out and analyzes opportunities for global citizenship education in the primary written curriculum of Sciences, History and Geography subjects. In addition, challenges, which faced by schools when implementing global citizenship education, are shown in this paper. Based on the advantages and disadvantages, the authors gave some recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of global citizenship education
number: /2021
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Governance is essential in the development of a public university. In university governance, the administrator plays a pivotal role. If governance is the factor that contributes to the success of a university, the administrator must be the one who takes a decisive role in the success of all governing activities. In the context of our country’s higher education system, in which fundamental changes are taking place, the university administrators are required to possess certain qualities and competencies. They need to be fully fostered to obtain those qualities and competencies.
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Primary school students of ethnic minorities in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam have unfavorable economic and social conditions, which has a huge impact on the quality of education in these areas, especially life skills education. Based on this proposition, the author has identified teachers’ viewpoints on the need of educating life skills for this target group of students and difficulties in implementing life skills education. Survey tools used in this research include questionnaires and interviews, direct observation with 218 teachers in Thai Nguyen, Bac Kan, Ha Giang, Cao Bang, Lang Son, Dien Bien, and Lai Chau provinces. The survey results show that most teachers are aware of the need to implement life skills education and have regularly implemented life skills education for ethnic minority primary school students in the northern mountainous areas, albeit with limited effectiveness. At the same time, the study also shows that the main difficulty preventing teachers in this area from implementing life skills education for students is that students’ parents are unaware of the role of life skills education and that schools focus too much on teaching the Vietnamese language and Mathematics to students, so they have not paid enough attention to the methods and forms of organizing life skills education. From this research, we propose a group of measures to organize and replicate the topics on life skills education for teachers in the regions to raise awareness about the use of diverse methods and forms of organizing life skills education in daily teaching activities. In addition, we also propose groups of measures to promote coordination between schools, families and social communities to raise awareness about the role of life skills education for ethnic minority students in the northern mountainous areas of Vietnam.
number: /2021
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This paper reports findings from a study conducted to identify university preparation of transferrable skills in an undergraduate course at a Vietnamese university. The paper first reviews the concept of transferrable skills and relevant literature on the development of transferrable skills both in international and Vietnamese higher education context. It then outlines the data collection instruments and the data collection procedure, from which insights into transferable skills development at the specified institution were drawn. The findings reveal that despite clearly articulating learning and skillset outcomes, the university under investigation adopted an isolated ad hoc approach and did not provide a range of opportunities and contexts for its students to master the transferable skills expected. The paper highlights the importance of adjusting teaching and learning practices in a way that students can develop useful skills for their personal, academic, and professional life.
number: /2021
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The current study was conducted to investigate high school EFL teachers’ perceptions towards the role of content schema activation that is focused on the pre-reading stage of their students’ reading comprehension ability and to find out the most common instructional strategies EFL teachers use to foster schema activation in the EFL classroom and gain insights into possible difficulties EFL teachers face when activating schemata in the reading lessons. The participants included 77 EFL high school teachers in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. To collect the data, a 22-item questionnaire and the semistructured interview on the teachers’ perceptions were carried out. The findings showed that although the participants had a positive perception towards the role of schema activation in English reading comprehension, they confirmed instructional strategies were not often used to activate students’ schemata in English reading comprehension. In addition, the participants tend to use more simple strategies, such as questioning, brainstorming, discussion and using audiovisual aids than complex strategies, Know - Want to know - Learned chart, semantic mapping, and anticipation guide, in order to activate students’ schemata. Most possible difficulties in activating students’ schemata in English reading comprehension were also revealed, such as the students’ limited linguistic knowledge, unfamiliar reading text’s topics, limited time for teaching reading, time-consuming work in designing the effective and appropriate schema activation activities, and the large classes. Pedagogical implications and suggestions for further research are presented based on these findings.
number: /2020
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Besides the formal education mode, constant education mode plays an important role and function in meeting with needs of human resources to help decrease the gap of level of production and social life in Viet Nam compared with developing countries in the region and in the world, integrate Vietnamese education into regional and global education, which is developing continuously. To make sure of the above missions, aside from diversifying modes of training, constant education mode requires evaluating and understanding the roles, functions together with opportunities and challenges of this mode correctly to support and influence it positively. In the process of human resource training in the Mekong Delta during this time, it is undeniable to mention the role of Can Tho University, which makes a great effort to maintain and develop the effectiveness of constant education mode
number: /2020
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Strategy is the end product of strategic planning process, which normally also incorporates the control mechanisms for guiding the implementation of the strategy. Strategic planning looks into the future to paint a picture of that future based on current trends. This presentation describes the strategic planning process of developing the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013-2025, which is used a reference to transform the Malaysian education system in accordance to the demand of 21st century. The Blueprint was developed with three objectives: 1) Understanding the current performance and challenges of the Malaysian education system, with a focus on improving access to education, raising standards (quality), closing achievement gaps (equity), fostering unity amongst students, and maximizing system efficiency, 2) Establishing a clear vision and aspirations for individual students and the education system as a whole over the next 13 years; and 3) Outlining a comprehensive transformation program for the system, including key changes to the Ministry. Multiple perspectives of inputs were considered in the development of the Blueprint. These included inputs and assessment from various experts and agencies from international and local, the general public and analysis of past policies documents and research reports. From these inputs, two aspirations were established - firstly, those for the education system as a whole, and secondly, those for individual students. These two aspirations set the stage for transformation of the Malaysian education system. The Blueprint suggested 11 shifts that will need to occur to achieve the envisioned education’s goals. Each shift addresses at least one of the five system outcomes of access, quality, equity, unity and efficiency, with quality as the common underlying focus across all shifts because this dimension requires the most urgent attention. Each shift comes with the underlying initiatives. As such, prioritization of initiatives is crucial to avoid overtaxed and execution fatigue and transformation is sequenced to occur in three waves. To ensure successful transformation as envisioned in the Blueprint, the Ministry has identified and committed to four differentiated actions in delivering the roadmap