New 'playground' demonstrates the talent and dedication of teachers

Although nThe first year the Contest was helddesignVinh University's 2021 E-learning lectures have made many strong impressions with highly appreciated lectures in terms of quality, contributing to improving information technology application skills and digital transformation in teaching and learning activities; at the same time, honoring the intelligence and creativity of teachers in content innovation and teaching method innovation.

Pioneering innovation for students

The contest has become a playground for teachers who are currently teaching in the education sector. Not only attracting young teachers to participate, many teachers with many years of experience also participate in compiling and submitting entries.

“Conditional probability” is the name of the lecture by Associate Professor, Dr. Le Van Thanh - Faculty of Mathematics,School of Educationdevoted much effort in the implementation process. Before going into the lesson, teacher Le Van Thanh also gave a simple introduction so that learners could understand what probability is and how to apply the lesson's knowledge to practical problems. Simply, based on the sensitivity and false positive rate of the PCR test, it is possible to calculate the probability that a person is infected with Covid-19 when the test result is positive, from which it is possible to consider whether or not PCR testing is necessary in the community to save costs. Similarly, when a person returns from an epidemic area but has a negative PCR test result, the example in the lecture shows that the possibility that these people are not infected with Covid-19 is more than 99%. This knowledge can help us decide whether it is necessary to quarantine these people or not, to avoid cross-infection and economic costs.

Associate Professor Dr. Le Van Thanh introduces his entry. Photo: MH

2021 is the 17th year that Associate Professor, Dr. Le Van Thanh has worked atVinh University. Although he has extensive experience in teaching, he also believes that this is the most difficult time when the entire education sector has to switch to online teaching. Personally, when he first got used to this method, he also encountered obstacles in having to change the way he prepares lesson plans and designs lectures to suit the new teaching method. On the learner's side, the condition of unsynchronized learning equipment and poor Internet connection quality are also huge obstacles in the process of learning lessons.

From this reality, when implementing E-learning lectures, teacher Le Van Thanh tried to use open source software and design lectures that are both flexible and easy to understand but still able to convey the profound content of the lesson.

The judges discuss during the scoring process. Photo: PV

Through the actual design of the lecture, teacher Le Van Thanh also said: This is a very special experience for me because from the implementation process I have learned a lot of knowledge to design an E-learning lecture, especially the application of information technology. We have also learned a lot from our colleagues and this is a very useful "professional activity".

Designing elaborate, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-apply lectures is also the responsibility of teachers to help students learn more effectively, especially when online learning may have to be extended. With his efforts, Associate Professor Dr. Le Van Thanh's lecture was also highly appreciated by the Organizing Committee of the competition and awarded the First Prize for the best lecture.

The lecture “Using non-verbal and non-verbal speech in report presentation” was awarded First Prize of the contest. Photo: MH

The group of authors including Dr. Ngo Thi Nhu Tho, Dr. Nguyen Manh Hung, Dr. Vo Van Dang - Faculty of Physical Education was also awarded First Prize with the lecture "Using non-verbal and non-verbal speech in presenting reports". This is the content of the lesson in the subject "Introduction to Pedagogy" and through an easy-to-understand presentation, the lecture helped students complete the output standards and develop more communication skills through group activities and presentation skills.

Dr. Ngo Thi Nhu Tho also shared: "With this lecture, we will limit the disadvantages of online teaching, increase student interaction, and create a serious but still fun teaching style."

Encourage creativity in teaching and learning

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected teaching and learning at Vinh University for nearly 2 years now. At this time, although the new school year has been nearly 3 months, nearly 40,000 students and trainees of the school still have to organize online learning.

To improve the quality of teaching and learning in the new context and respond to the special emulation movement "The entire education sector unites, joins hands, and competes to prevent, fight and defeat the Covid-19 pandemic, successfully carrying out the tasks of the school year", Vinh University Trade Union has launched an E-learning lesson design contest for all teachers and lecturers of the school at many different levels.

Vinh University has now established the Institute of Online Research and Training. In the photo: The jury of the photo contest took pictures at the Institute's studio. Photo: PV

The competition took place in a very urgent time but received the response of many staff, teachers, lecturers in the whole school and really created a "new wind" for teachers to demonstrate their pedagogical talent. To increase interaction, efficiency and objectivity, the Organizing Committee of the competition used social networks to introduce the lectures and considered this as an information channel to listen and poll for opinions contributing to the program.

Through the preliminary rounds, from 75 entries, the Organizing Committee selected 32 entries for the final round to award 4 First prizes and 5 Second prizes.Second prize, 12 third prizes and 11 consolation prizes.

In addition, to encourage and promote the movement, some lectures were also awarded the Level 2 E-learning Lecture Award and the Most Voted Product Award on social networks.

The lectures were introduced to the competition's jury. Photo: MH

According to the Organizing Committee's assessment, although this is the first year of the competition, most of the products - E-Learning Lectures are designed products that have been and are being used in the teaching and learning process at all levels of Vinh University (primary, secondary, high school, university, postgraduate) so they have very high practical applicability. In addition, most of the lectures have invested in technology, demonstrating the ability to self-select and flexibly and effectively use a number of information technology tools/platforms in online teaching, with quite good sound and images, vividly, creatively and attractively presented in the form of lectures.

In addition, all lectures are guaranteed to be scientific, accurate in content, content handling and design suitable for students' self-study and suitable for the target audience (students, university students, high school students, primary school students).

The President of Vinh University awarded the first prize winners of the E-learning Lesson Design Contest. Photo: MH

At the same time, attention has been paid to the harmony between the lectures of teachers and lecturers and the learning activities of students. Learning activities demonstrate the adjustment of online teaching organization according to the blended learning model, increasing the active working time of students and reducing the real-time connection time.

Another highlight is that the lectures are rich in practical connections, not only providing knowledge but also helping learners see the meaning and application of the knowledge content, clear lectures, standard language, effective interaction. Many lectures are of very good quality, demonstrating high professional expertise and professionalism, dedication and quick adaptability of teachers and lecturers.

The Board of Directors of Vinh University awarded prizes and took photos with the winning authors. Photo: MH

The success of the competition is also in its spread because after this competition, the awarded lectures will be model lectures for all teachers and lecturers in the school to learn and apply. Through this competition, the school's teaching staff also has the opportunity to promote their talents and demonstrate their responsibility towards their students and teaching and learning.

The E-learning Lesson Design Competition for the 2021-2022 school year has practical significance in the current context, effectively implementing Decision No. 749 approved by the Prime Minister."National digital transformation program to 2025, vision to 2030"; with the aim of improving the professional qualifications of lecturers and teachers.

Through the contest, teaching activities are promoted to apply IT, contributing to building a quality digital science repository to serve the innovation of content, methods, forms of teaching and learning organization, testing, evaluation, and improving training quality. At the same time, this is also a playground to encourage lecturers and teachers to continue implementing the school's policy in building and designing E-learning lectures, enhancing exchanges and learning experiences between lecturers and teachers of schools, faculties and institutes; honoring the intelligence and creativity of teachers in innovating teaching methods and forms".

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Huy Bang - Principal of the school, Chairman of the Science and Training Council.