The paper presents the lecturing staff professional development process of the Education Faculty in a multi-disciplinary university the Mekong Delta of Vietnam within the current educational reform context. The paper is based on a qualitative interpretive case study that explored the context of the faculty and the practices of professional development for the teaching staff to address new requirements in higher education. Two data collection methods were used: analysis of policy documents (e.g. national educational policies, Education Law 2018, Higher Education Law 2019, provincial documents, and faculty reports), and informal interviews with four educational managers. The findings provided insights into the faculty context and developmental strategy, and revealed an imbalance in the faculty’s lecturing staff development and practical requirements. The paper offers some suggestions for the faculty’s developmental strategy and lecturers’ professional development, particularly to enhance the qualifications of the teaching staff who are capable of enacting educational reforms successfully in their local contexts.
This article reflects a comparative analysis and assessment on structure of the education system of the countries, comparing structure of Vietnam national education system and ISCED 1997-2011(UNESCO), giving some basic orientation on Vietnam national education system appropriate to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 2011) and the Vietnamese National Qualifications Framework (VQF).
The growth of information technology is changing the way of teaching and learning in higher education. E-learning system is a part of this change, which help students and instructions interact become easier. Learning management system (LMS) becomes more innovative and useful for learning activities regarding time and location. This paper examine the mediating role of perceived usefulness and self-efficacy on student satisfaction of LMS. We adopted the extended information system (IS) success model with perceived usefulness and self-efficacy as mediator. The model was tested with 220 students in University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City who use a LMS for most of the course they took. Partial least squares (PLS) technique is employed to test the possible mediating effects. The PLS analysis results revealed that Perceived usefulness fully mediate the relationship between service quality to learner satisfaction of LMS. Furthermore, research found that Perceived usefulness play as partially mediator which mediate the relationship between information quality and system quality with learner satisfaction