To implement capacity-building activities on digital transformation for staff and teachers of GIZ’s partner colleges, the Programme “Reform of TVET in Viet Nam” continued to invite Dr. Le Phuong Truong from Lac Hong University, Dong Nai province, to implement the training course on “Teaching on a digital platform” for nearly 35 staff and teachers of NTVC from October 11th to 13th, 2023.
“Leaders of NTVC continue to promote the movement of responding, creating, and applying digital transformation to teaching, research, and learning among the college’s staff, teachers, and students in the new context, together with the entire country to achieve the goals of the National Digital Transformation Programme. Thus, to create practical and convenient values for all stakeholders,” Mr. Nguyen Phan Anh Quoc, the Rector of NTVC, addressed the participants at the training course.
The course included the following main content:
Day 1: Digital competence framework; E-pedagogy; Digital teaching design.
In this session, NTVC teachers obtained (i) Digital assets and Digital resources (ii) Digital competence framework and E-pedagogy; (iii) Steps of digital teaching design. Thereby, NTVC teachers learned about methods of autonomously storing and preserving the teaching information data, as well as the teaching and learning management of teachers and students on the LMS (Learning Management System).
In addition, participants were also introduced to a number of digital competence frameworks in some European countries, England, and Chile where learners were empowered through the cooperation between learners and teachers, and individualisation of learners is also a development trend. Therefore, it is necessary to have some support to improve digital competence for learners to give them some methods to deal with problems related to information, communication, and collaboration on digital platforms, digital content creation, security being solved on digital platforms…
In addition, teachers were also guided in (i) integrating digital pedagogy into individual teachers’ teaching activities, (ii) reverse design models and digital tools. In particular, there is the application of storyline in lesson planning and teaching plans.
Day 2: Active teaching methods on digital platforms.
In this session, teachers accessed the content of (i) Digital content creation, (ii) Active teaching methods on digital platforms, (iii) Interactive techniques in a hybrid, online training environment. Based on this knowledge, teachers practiced how to develop a teaching plan and design digital content for online, offline, blended, and hybrid courses based on the teaching plan developed on Day 1 of the training course and upload lectures on LMS according to the flipped classroom model.
Day 3: Applying AI in digital lecture creation and research
In this session, teachers continued with active teaching methods on digital platforms and AI applications in digital lecture creation. Accordingly, teachers had a group (teachers of the same faculty) and individual practical segment on designing digital lectures on a digital platform and uploading to LMS, and finally, each teacher presented their own individual assignment for the trainer’s comments.
It was much appreciated that during the presentation of individual assignments, a number of teachers showed their good skill demonstration in digital lecture creation by applying many features of advanced software, digital tools, and uploaded to the LMS competently. The trainer highly appreciated their outstanding progress in creating lively digital lectures, meeting the expected learning outcome of certain module/lesson and being highly interactive with learners, reaching level 3 (the highest level according to the digital lecture creation standards because the lecture includes interactive videos with learners). At the same time, he also recommended that NTVC should choose outstanding factors to replicate and develop the trained skills throughout the college sustainably.
“I am so proud of my progress in obtaining and practicing skills of applying digital tools, advanced software, as well as features of other digital platforms to create digital lectures with clear expected learning outcomes and an organized structure, sufficient and lively content,” Ms. Dao Thi Vui, Deputy head of Electrical and Electronics Faculty mentioned.
According to survey results, 96.6% of teachers are willing to apply the knowledge they obtained in teaching after the training course, and 100% of teachers are satisfied with the content and quality of the training course. In particular, there are many suggestions that the TVET Programme should organise more similar and more specialised training courses on digital lecture creation that closely match the vocational training programme on the LMS platform, on how to use AI in digital lecture design; especially the skill of digital lecture creation for the module/subject having simulation content in the next coming time.
