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

Digital education:Opportunities and challenges

Giáp Văn DươngGiapSchool

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 Văn Dương | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Internet accessibility


Vietnam’s economy challenge?

PRODUCTIVITY IS TOO LOW!


Vietnam’s economy challenge?

• Low productivity

Continuous training, lifelong learning to upgrading the quality of workforce


Education reform in VN

• HOT TOPIC!

• Opinion, critiques only

• Alternative? Another model?

• Education integration internationally?


Education reform in VN

• Stuck in a status quo for a long time

• K-12 curricula reform: $1.7 billion?

• HE curriculum: Ignored!


What is the solution?

Digital education


What is MOOC?

Source: wikipedia


Why MOOC?

• 2012: The year of MOOC

(The New York Times)• VN: 31/8/2013


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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)


Opportunities for VN

• Fast renewing and upgrading the HE curriculum at low cost

• Education integration to meet international standards

• Building a learning society



• Supporting the current education system

• Exploring new pedagogy: flip teaching, flipped class

• Enhancing the ability of self-training, self-study of the community



• Free quality education resource to community

• Improving the quality of the workforce

• Updating new skills and knowledeges


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.


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


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


Challenge: Initial investment

• University of London (MOOC report, 2013):

– Making video clips: £10 000/course– Coursera MOOC: + £ 20 000/course– Lecturer: 200 hours for preparing teaching

materials+ 10-20 hours/week for running the course

• Duke University (MOOC on Bioelectricity): 600 for preparing + 400 hours for running the course


Challenge: Initial Investment

• Khanacademy: ~10M + Donation

• edX: $60 M from MIT & Harvard

• Coursera: $85 M from different investors


Challenge: Business model

• Certificate fee?• Assessment fee?• Donation?• Advertisement ?• Enterprises paying for their own course?• …

No sustainable business model!


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 Văn Dương | Digital education: Challenges and Opportunities

Challenge: Assessment

• Machine-graded multiple choice quizzes?

• Peer review written assessment?

• On site assessment?


Future of HE

Traditional university

Homogeneity Diversity

Online

Face-to-face

Unidiversity

Online universityHybrid university

TEL-Map UK HE Scenarios


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