improving it education in vietnam
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Improving IT Education in Improving IT Education in VNVN
Discussion & some Suggestions
Huy Zing @ MultiUniHuy Le @ RMIT Vietnam
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What’s the state of IT skills in What’s the state of IT skills in VN?VN?Vietnam will lack 1,900 IT
experts by end of 2009Almost half of IT graduates
require additional trainingLittle educational and community
support for innovative technologies
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How are we learning?How are we learning?UniversitiesTraining centersSelf-studyOn the job (lucky you)
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What cool techs are not What cool techs are not being taught?being taught?Please give me some examples
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Examples of cool techs not Examples of cool techs not being taughtbeing taughtRailsFacebook Application PlatformOpenSocialiPhone SDKAndroid
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Shouldn’t universities be Shouldn’t universities be teaching these?teaching these?Some might say “self-study”…But Stanford University is
teaching them
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Why not? CurriculumWhy not? CurriculumExample: RMIT Vietnam
curriculum comes from RMIT Australia
Example: FPT Aptech curriculum comes from Aptech in India
The country’s IT future is decided elsewhere.
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Why not? Marketable skillsWhy not? Marketable skillsLess immediate market demandMainstream skills limit innovation
◦Heavy focus on outsourcing in VNMainstream skills neglect
growing job and consulting opportunities
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Alternatives for IT Alternatives for IT Education?Education?Please share your ideas
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Alternative: corporate Alternative: corporate trainingtrainingExample: RMIT Vietnam wants to
do corporate training in ITBenefit: on-demandLimitation: short 1-2 seminarsWhat courses do companies want
centers?
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Alternative: MultiUniAlternative: MultiUni“Turn the community into a university”
Wikipedia => user-generated encyclopediaBarCamp => user-generated conferenceMultiUni => user-generated university
Community teaches latest technologies/skills in classroom environment
Cost: free or close to free
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MultiUni - what to teachMultiUni - what to teachNewest technologies and skills
not taught elsewhereFree course material from top
universities: Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Oxford, Harvard
First course: iPhone application development
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MultiUni – who teachesMultiUni – who teachesInitially, experts and teachersThen, any graduate of the
program can teach and pass on the knowledge
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MultiUni – who learnsMultiUni – who learnsThe more the betterBut to accommodate limited
space/resources, need admissions criteria & process
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MultiUni – how to teachMultiUni – how to teachSame format and length as
universityAround 10 weeks, twice a week
◦After work hoursAssignments and projects,
gradedHigh-tech classroom
environment: Wi-Fi, projector, whiteboard
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MultiUni – what resources MultiUni – what resources are neededare neededDonations
◦Time◦Place◦Equipment◦Marketing
Already in place for first course
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MultiUni – how to scaleMultiUni – how to scaleSet up for viral growth, like
FacebookSelect students for
◦Skill◦Capacity/interest to teach
Raise monetary or material donations
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MultiUni – potential MultiUni – potential partnershipspartnershipsFPT Aptech – market to their
studentsIDG Ventures Vietnam – review
demos of projectsAny other ideas?
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More InformationMore Informationhttp://multiuni.org/http://ocw.mit.edu/http://see.stanford.edu/http://academicearth.org/http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/
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