Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee stated the reason for the risk of falling behind in education

Speaking at the workshop, Mr. Duong Anh Duc said: "In today's era, if we do not pay attention to digital transformation, it means we are falling behind. The application of information technology (IT) in education is identified as one of the important tasks to innovate teaching and management methods as well as improve the quality of educational activities."

According to Mr. Duc, the Southeast region has a particularly important strategic role and position in terms of politics, economics, culture, society, national defense, security and foreign affairs of the whole country.

Resolution 24 of the Politburo identifies the Southeast as a dynamically developing region, a center of economics, finance, trade, services, education and training, high-quality human resource development, science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation, leading the country and Southeast Asia, playing an important role in linking development with other economic regions.

The Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee emphasized that in order to maintain its role as an economic locomotive and continue to increase its contributions to the national economy, the Southeast region is very interested in investing in new areas. In particular, digital transformation is one of the areas that Ho Chi Minh City, together with other provinces and cities, has focused on developing recently. Currently, the digital infrastructure of the education and training sector has made clear progress.

Mr. Duc added: "To be able to successfully transform digitally is not an easy task, because digital transformation is not just a matter of technology. Technology is ultimately just a tool, people and awareness are the most important. Therefore, to effectively and efficiently carry out digital transformation in education, it is necessary to clearly see the nature of the problem to determine what is the key, what is the obstacle, and from there focus on building tools and mechanisms."

Dr. Nguyen Van Hieu, Director of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, talks about the digital transformation goals of the education and training sector.

10 goals of digital transformation of education in Ho Chi Minh City

At the conference, Dr. Nguyen Van Hieu, Director of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, said that the digital transformation process of the education and training sector by 2025, with a vision to 2030, includes 10 goals:

• Ensure technical infrastructure and school IT equipment including computers, transmission lines and appropriate equipment to implement new teaching models.
• Enhance the role of management information systems by promoting data authentication activities between state agencies, data interconnection between systems, thereby improving data quality to meet management and operational requirements.
• Promote blended learning models such as smart classrooms and interactive lectures to extend student learning beyond the classroom.
• Creating a shared digital learning resource repository for the entire industry helps teachers build and deploy lessons on the LMS environment more quickly and effectively.
• Develop digital platforms for teaching and learning activities and massive open online courses (MOOCs) to facilitate flexible and widely accessible learning towards building a learning society and serving the goal of lifelong learning for city residents.
• Promoting training helps improve digital awareness and skills of staff, helping teachers and managers understand and use technology effectively.
• Deploy international standard IT certificates.
• Actively cooperate with the Edtech business community to provide units and individuals with many advanced technology solutions; attract investment capital into the education technology market.
• Develop support mechanisms and policies to ensure and promote the development of technology in education.
• Periodically monitor and evaluate the development and implementation of periodic inspection and evaluation plans to ensure that digital transformation efforts at all levels of government and grassroots level are effective and in line with the general direction.

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