Benchmarking Online Training in Higher Education: Vietnamese Students’ Perceptions
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https://doi.org/10.21432/cjlt28901Keywords:
online training, higher education, Vietnam, students’ perception, benchmarking, European Association of Distance Teaching UniversitiesAbstract
Vietnam is ranked at the advanced stages in the adoption and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education, according to the criteria defined by UNESCO. However, most Vietnamese higher education institutions are limited to investing in technological equipment and materials to encourage individual initiatives in online teaching among lecturers, without having a comprehensive institutional policy for online training, including all the dimensions necessary for the systemic integration of ICTs. This prevents them from achieving a sufficient level of efficiency and overall coherence. This article is a study of models for the overall development of e-learning in higher education institutions, in particular that of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU), for building a benchmarking model for e-learning institutional policy under students’ perception. This model was subject to a survey involving 460 students from four Vietnamese higher education institutions, with the result of factor analysis validating an adapted version that fits to the local context.
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