Hanoi (VNA) – ♈With online learning so becoming so prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation has changed teaching delivery in the education sector and helped make great strides in training management.

Lectures are more engaging if they are not just reading-writing a huge e-learning resource. Teachers no longer have to report statistics as information is updated every hour on the system. Digital transformation has helped the education sector make drastic changes in teaching and great strides in education management.

A “revolution” for teachers

Teacher Nguyen Thi Minh Hoa of Ly Thai To Primary School, Hanoi said the two years hard hit by the pandemic is a "revolution" in online learning that forced all teachers, regardless of age, to adapt, learn and enhance the application of information technology in education.  “Teachers must constantly explore, create, learn software, utilize applications to design more eye-catching and professional lessons. We had to integrate a variety of methods of transferring knowledge, from still images to animations, storytelling, video projection, graphics, etc. to make their online lectures more vivid to engage students," said Hoa. To support teaching staff, the education sector organized training sessions on online teaching and learning, from ministerial, departmental, to school level, even the teachers organize the training by themselves to teach each other. From using Zoom, schools learned to use a combination of other software, such as Team meeting, Google Classroom... or even built online school models. After two years of having to abandon the traditional classroom setting and start anew teaching online, most teachers learned to effectively organize online learning.

Teaching online: From passive to active

2023 Lunar New Year was probably the longest recorded New Year holiday for university students with time off not measured in days but in weeks. Instead of going home late and back to school early, students were able to study online at home to reduce difficulties in travel during the peak days near and right after Tet. Teaching and learning online because of the COVID-19 pandemic has allowed both schools and students to get used to this method of learning. For content and modules that cannot be studied online, the school will organize in person teaching after the students return to school. Long An province built a smart school model back in 2019. The locality invested in a server system to store data, and built a shared database to gradually connect with the system of the Ministry of Education and Training. With that firm foundation, Long An has successfully implemented online school management, connected schools with parents, used electronic school records, electronic gradebooks, developed a digital data warehouse, and supported statistical reporting to ensure accuracy and synchronization. According to leaders of local education and training departments, the application of information technology in management helped to reduce effort and pressure on retaining academic records. Although encouraging results have been achieved, digital transformation of the education sector still faces many difficulties, especially in remote and isolated areas of Vietnam./.