Identifying key solutions for digital transformation in Ho Chi Minh City education

Speaking at the workshop, Dr. Nguyen Van Hieu, Director of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, affirmed that the city's education and training sector identifies digital transformation as the top important solution in innovating leadership methods, a tool to create breakthroughs in administrative reform, improve the investment environment, and an important goal and driving force in improving the quality of education and training in the city. Digital transformation helps reduce pressure on both teachers and students, supporting better education management. Information and communication technology is currently widely applied in education management, including software for managing student and teacher databases; Online survey and test systems; Timetable software, etc.

Digital transformation helps reduce pressure on both teachers and students, supporting better education management

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“The city’s education sector has identified a number of key tasks and solutions, including training and fostering digital skills, raising awareness for cadres, teachers and employees in the entire sector. Implementing current regulations in performing digital transformation tasks; building and developing digital data. Focusing resources on investing in infrastructure to meet the requirements of applying information technology in management and teaching at all educational institutions...”, Dr. Hieu said.

Participating in the workshop via online connection, Mr. Cristóbal Cobo, senior education expert, key member of the global education technology team, and Ms. Marie-Helene Cloutier, senior economist of the World Bank, used the World Bank's education technology readiness index to analyze the policies and practices of the Ho Chi Minh City education ecosystem. Accordingly, from data collected through school surveys, the two experts analyzed the Ho Chi Minh City education ecosystem according to 6 pillars: school management, teachers, students, equipment, connectivity, and digital resources. From there, the World Bank senior expert recommended that Ho Chi Minh City would be more successful if it planned, revised, and improved the consistency and quality assurance of its education technology strategy, putting teachers and students at the center, and prioritizing the purchase, distribution, and effective use of digital devices in schools.

An education technology strategy will also be effective if it builds on the strengths of existing school management to support the planning, implementation and monitoring of education technology policies, as well as enhancing the effective use of digital resources, improving the quality of internet connectivity in schools, paying special attention to lower levels of education, continuing solutions to shorten the gap between urban and rural areas...