Digital education: Opportunities and challenges Giáp Văn Dương GiapSchool TpHCM City, 2/8/2014

Contribution of the internet to GDP UK: 8.3% GDP: -2010: £121 billion -2016: £ 221 billion Expected growth -UK: 11%/year -USA: 5.4%/year -China: 6.9%/year -Vietnam: ? Source: Boston Consulting Group Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Internet accessibility Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Vietnam’s economy challenge? PRODUCTIVITY IS TOO LOW! Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Vietnam’s economy challenge? Low productivity Continuous training, lifelong learning to upgrading the quality of workforce Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Education reform in VN HOT TOPIC! Opinion, critiques only Alternative? Another model? Education integration internationally? Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Education reform in VN Stuck in a status quo for a long time K-12 curricula reform: $1.7 billion? HE curriculum: Ignored! Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

What is the solution? Digital education Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

What is MOOC? Source: wikipedia Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Why MOOC? 2012: The year of MOOC (The New York Times) VN: 31/8/2013 Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

People of liberty is the purpose of education Knowledge free of charge Self- enlightenment GIAPSCHOOL.ORG DIGITAL EDUCATION Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Outside USA Iversity (Berlin): Start-up CourseWorld (German): Start-up Futurelearn (UK) MiriadaX: Spain OpenupEd: EU France: 2/10/2013: National Assembly  2014: MOOC! Việt Nam: GiapSchool: 31/8/2013 China: XuetangX (13/10/2013) Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Opportunities for VN Fast renewing and upgrading the HE curriculum at low cost Education integration to meet international standards Building a learning society Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Opportunities for VN Supporting the current education system Exploring new pedagogy: flip teaching, flipped class Enhancing the ability of self-training, self-study of the community Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Opportunities for VN Free quality education resource to community Improving the quality of the workforce Updating new skills and knowledeges Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Expected outcomes For a proper investment: 1.Within 2 years: Renewing the K-12 curricula 2.Within 5 years: Upgrading HE curricula 3.Connecting 1000 Vietnamese experts worldwide to transfer knowledge to VN in the form of MOOC. Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Expected outcomes For a proper investment: 4.Translating and customizing thousands MOOC courses into Vietnamese. 5.Training millions workers using blended learning model: online learning + onsite practice Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Who benefit? Everyone can enjoy quality education resources free of charge! Building new learning culture for the community Long term impact, sustainable development to every aspects of the society Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Challenge: Initial investment University of London (MOOC report, 2013): – Making video clips: £10 000/course – Coursera MOOC: + £ /course – Lecturer: 200 hours for preparing teaching materials hours/week for running the course Duke University (MOOC on Bioelectricity): 600 for preparing hours for running the course Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Challenge: Initial Investment Khanacademy: ~10M + Donation edX: $60 M from MIT & Harvard Coursera: $85 M from different investors Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Challenge: Business model Certificate fee? Assessment fee? Donation? Advertisement ? Enterprises paying for their own course? …  No sustainable business model! Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Challenge: Pedagogy E-teaching: new pedagogy required! - Giving lectures without students -Lack of emotion and motivation during learning and teaching! Drop rate: 80-95% ! Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Challenge: Assessment Machine-graded multiple choice quizzes? Peer review written assessment? On site assessment? Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Future of HE Traditional university Homogeneity Diversity Online Face-to-face Unidiversity Online university Hybrid university TEL-Map UK HE Scenarios Giáp V ă n D ươ ng | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

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