Nghe An Department of Education and Training trains VNPT E Learning - Distance learning solution to fight Corona epidemic

The training conference was conducted via video conference connecting from the Department of Education and Training to 21 points of districts, towns and cities with the participation of representatives from the Departments of Education and Training, high schools, Continuing Education - Vocational Education Centers, Secondary and Primary schools in the whole province.

VNPT E-Learning is a solution developed by VNPT under the vnEdu education ecosystem with more than 20 solutions and applications for the education sector such as: School electronic information portal, electronic contact book, electronic lesson preparation, customizable online exam system, VNPT Pay cashless fee collection solution, Timetable... VNPT E-Learning is used according to the SaaS cloud computing model. Schools can completely create their own school site quickly without installing any software.

VNPT E-Learning builds interactive learning programs through Whiteboard and SCORM lectures, which are vivid visual learning methods.

With this solution, teachers have full tools to manage and design electronic lecture warehouses and tests for students very easily. Learning materials in movie, photo, document formats... are directly uploaded to the system or from any other available source such as: YouTube, Google, Wiki... or the school's website. VNPT E-Learning is developed based on 4.0 technology platforms such as: Cloud Computing, Adaptive Learning, Blockchain, helping students to study anytime, anywhere on smartphones, tablets, computers.

In recent years, Nghe An Department of Education and Training has cooperated with VNPT to use vnEdu school management solution for all schools in the province, aiming to digitize management and teaching tasks with many modern functions such as electronic contact books, electronic grade books, electronic transcripts... to help reduce workload, save time and effort for managers, teachers and staff in schools.

Accompanying vnEdu, VNPTE-Learning “Digital Classroom” opens a new era of education and learning. Students actively follow the courses that are being taken or have been completed with many different types of learning materials. In particular, VNPT E-Learning builds an interactive learning program through Whiteboard and SCORM lectures, which is a vivid visual learning method. Along with 3 components of learning via livestream, online lesson exchange, online testing, VNPT E-Learning has covered the entire program of knowledge acquisition from students in the most proactive and complete way.

Speaking at the training conference, Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoang Ha - Deputy Director of VNPT Business Center - Nghe An said: VNPT E-Learning has many superior features compared to the e-learning form commonly found online.The first, VNPT E-Learning connects with the vnEdu School Management System that schools are currently using, so it is very convenient and easy to synchronize teacher and student data, teaching assignments, etc.

Monday, VNPT E-Learning system not only allows full exploitation of content, data and learning materials like other E-learning systems, but also allows teachers to create their own lectures, tests, grade and return assignments to students; especially, there is a chat room to exchange and interact directly with learners.

Tuesday, VNPT E-Learning system is an online learning and testing platform. Schools not only create lectures but also create and manage ONLINE tests at school level (whole school), automatically grade according to answers in the available library and synchronize these results to vnEdu. Teachers create ONLINE tests and exams of the subjects they are assigned to teach and also grade and transfer scores to the vnEdu system synchronously. Teachers and learners only need to have internet-connected devices such as computers, iPads, phones... to be able to use the VNPT E-learning system.

Currently, VNPT Nghe An has deployed E-Learning to schools across the province so that teachers can proactively review knowledge for students remotely during the school break due to the Covid-19 epidemic.

Mr. Dao Cong Loi - Deputy Director of Nghe An Department of Education and Training spoke at the training session on the online learning and testing platform VNPT E-Learning. Photo: Ngoc Anh

Speaking at the training conference, Mr. Dao Cong Loi - Deputy Director of Nghe An Department of Education and Training requested units to quickly research E-Learning solutions; disseminate and retrain 100% of teachers in schools to ensure that after the training session, all teachers can exploit and proficiently use online teaching and learning programs, initially helping students review knowledge and lessons during the time off school due to the epidemic as well as exploit and use them long-term in the future.

In particular, in addition to training via television, VNPT Nghe An also directly trains VNPT E-Learning for teachers at schools across the province to be able to guide and answer questions... VNPT E-Learning is deployed free of charge for schools until July 31, 2020 during the Covid-19 epidemic.

VNPT Nghe An trains and guides teachers on how to use E-Learning at Huynh Thuc Khang High School. Photo: Ngoc Anh

The VNPT E-Learning system has ensured millions of visits and interactions at the same time. In addition, with the strength of virtualization infrastructure being deployed at 2 IDC Centers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, VNPT will be able to easily add capacity to the system quickly. Along with that, VNPT has built a smart education ecosystem based on the Vietnam e-Government architecture framework issued by the Ministry of Information and Communications.

With trust in the capacity and experience in deploying information technology applications in the education sector of VNPT Group in recent times, the Department of Information Technology - Ministry of Education and Training and VNPT signed a strategic cooperation agreement on deploying information technology applications for the period 2019 - 2025.

With a scientific and complete construction of the content of the Ministry of Education and Training for all levels from primary to university, VNPT E-Learning is a lively digital classroom, bringing many benefits to both students and teachers, helping schools save costs such as documents, lesson plans, notebooks, certificates... not only during the period of dealing with the Covid-19 epidemic but also an advanced teaching and learning method suitable for today's 4.0 era.

Ngoc Anh