The Open University in  Ho Chi Minh City has just launched a Vietnamese massive open online courses platform, called VMOOCs, with more than 40 free courses in fields such as business administration, finance-banking, law, foreign languages and others. The university will be collaborating with the Open University in Hanoi to develop more VMOOCs platforms.

Courses on this platform last from four to six weeks, comprising of both theorical and practical lessons. The courses are based on standards from the US Quality Matters, a global organisation promoting quality assurance in online and innovative digital teaching and learning environments.

The Ministry of Education and Training welcomed the initiative and encouraged more local universities to develop such VMOOCs in Vietnam, and said it was setting up a legal framework to recognise lifelong learning. 

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Comments from Lien Ta, Senior Education Services Manager: 

The World Economic Forum Report titled "ASEAN Youth: Technology, skills and the future of work" released last year in a WEF conference in Hanoi showed that Vietnamse youth were most committed to lifelong learning in South EA, as compared to their peers in other regional countries. That commitment was considered as an essential factor for the future success of the Vietnamese young generation in the era of the fourth industrial revolution with an accelerated pace of change in the job market. Therefore, a framework on building a learning society by the Government will be very important to foster that spirit. That legal framework will also help facilitate more international partnership of local universities with foreign partners in the future, to learn experience and develop in-country platforms and resources that enable lifelong education opportunities for Vietnamese citizens.