Contribute to promoting digital education in Vietnam

The ASEAN Digital Awards (formerly ASEAN ICT Awards) has been held annually since 2012, with the aim of finding and honoring IT initiatives with high practical applications that bring value to the community, have the ability to develop sustainably and contribute to economic development in countries in the ASEAN region.

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FPT IS's VioEdu online education system received the Silver award in the Digital Content category of the 2024 ASEAN Digital Awards. (Photo: Thanh Tuyen)

In the first time being selected by the Ministry of Information and Communications to participate in the ASEAN Digital Awards (ADA), the online education system VioEdu of FPT IS, a member unit of FPT Technology Group, has excellently won the Silver prize in the Digital Content category, contributing to bringing the Vietnamese delegation to the top of the ADA 2024 awards.

Sharing with VietNamNet reporters about the problem of the education industry that VioEdu aims to solve, a representative of the development team said that the VioEdu education system helps high school students in Vietnam learn in a focused, flexible and personalized way.

The playgrounds and learning paths offered by VioEdu are compatible and vivid like games, helping students become interested, proactive, self-disciplined, and self-study, especially in the digital age when the Internet and learning through mobile apps are developing explosively.

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Learning content on VioEdu has attracted tens of millions of users after 4 years of launch.

VioEdu also provides tools to help teachers and schools save up to 95% of the time in assigning assignments, testing, and grading; organize online classes, online testing and assessment; provide detailed reports to help schools manage and monitor the teaching and learning quality of teachers and students throughout the school.

At the same time, the parent feature provides detailed, intuitive reports and suggestions, helping parents closely monitor their students' training process, helping to optimize time and costs.

“By creating a synchronous platform like the above, we have contributed to helping thousands of schools in Vietnam quickly adapt and stabilize when switching to online learning during the Covid-19 period in 2020, 2021 and continue to synchronously transform digitally since the pandemic until now,” the representative of the VioEdu development team shared more.

AI applications help personalize learning paths

Being named among the four Vietnamese solutions that made it to the final round of the ASEAN Digital Contest 2024 has partly demonstrated the excellence of the VioEdu online education system. Participating in the final round of judging, Dr. Nguyen Thanh Tuyen, Deputy Director of the Department of Information Technology and Communications (Ministry of Information and Communications), said that at one point, VioEdu was predicted to have the potential to win the Gold prize.

Compared to similar solutions, a difference of VioEdu is the diversity and synchronization of features for all 4 subjects including students, parents, teachers, and schools, thereby bringing convenience to users.

In terms of content, thanks to the smart construction of a content theme framework according to the knowledge and skills standards of the Ministry of Education and Training, learning materials on VioEdu can be easily "dismantled" and quickly customized according to different requirements, suitable for many markets. In 2023, VioEdu gave users the right to choose learning content according to current textbooks.

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VioEdu's outstanding results after 4 years (Photo from the presentation slide of the ADA 2024 Final Round).

Following the program of the Ministry of Education and Training, VioEdu provides a learning material warehouse with over 10,000 animated video lectures, over 1 million exercises and tests in Math, Vietnamese and English Math with many levels from easy to difficult.

In particular, new technologies such as AI and Big Data have been applied by VioEdu to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each student with more than 95% accuracy, thereby suggesting a personalized learning path, helping to save 30 - 50% of time and increase learning efficiency.

The system also builds a lively and engaging learning program like a game with a series of attractive intellectual playgrounds, companions, points to exchange for gifts... to help students increase their interest and self-study. The average interaction time of VioEdu users is up to 49 minutes/user.

Expectations to reach out to ASEAN regional market

According to statistics, after 4 years of operation, VioEdu has had 18.5 million users, with about 1.8 million accounts active monthly. It is estimated that on average, 1 in 3 Vietnamese students knows and uses VioEdu for self-study.

Along with that, tens of thousands of schools from more than 40 provinces and cities in Vietnam participated in the playground, using VioEdu's learning materials and platforms to improve the quality of teaching and learning. VioEdu is also named in the strategy to build a comprehensive educational foundation of Binh Dinh, Ca Mau and Ha Tinh.

Talking to VietNamNet reporters about the competition journey of Vietnamese digital technology products at ADA 2024, Dr. Nguyen Thanh Tuyen also emphasized that in the Digital Content category, Vietnam's ICANKid and VioEdu are more outstanding than other countries' solutions in terms of practical effectiveness and number of users.

In addition to good products, according to Dr. Nguyen Thanh Tuyen, there are other plus points for the VioEdu online education system to win the Silver Award of ADA 2024, that is, the development team has prepared well both the presentation and the short video introducing the product, the representative presenting before the Jury presented English well, and controlled the time reasonably.

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Representative of VioEdu development team presented the product to 13 international judges. (Photo: Thanh Tuyen)

According to Ms. Nguyen Thi Ngoc, Director of the online education system VioEdu, being honored at the ASEAN arena is of great significance to VioEdu, a testament to the capacity and values ​​that the group is striving to bring to users, and at the same time a 'push' for the product to soon achieve higher goals in the Vietnamese and ASEAN markets.

“Winning the ADA 2024 award also helps us promote and further improve our products, aiming to promote digital education in Vietnam and reach out to the regional market,” Ms. Nguyen Thi Ngoc shared.

The development team representative also said that in 2024, VioEdu will promote the application of AI to products, launch new learning content, open Q&A forums and online tutoring features; at the same time, connect with educational institutions in the region to "export" VioEdu's playgrounds to other countries and bring advanced learning models to Vietnam.

Journey to support Vietnamese digital technology enterprises to bring their products to international recognition Closing a successful year in promoting Vietnamese digital technology enterprises to reach foreign markets, the Ministry of Information and Communications has just received good news when supporting and supporting domestic enterprises to have 4 products win the ASEAN Digital Award 2024.