Vietnamese students design not-for-profit education model

Vietnan/Diciembre de 2016/Fuente: Vietnan.net

RESUMEN: Los hombres de 25 a 34 años, todos estudiaron en universidades de Corea del Sur, se conocieron por casualidad y se convirtieron en amigos cercanos después de actividades extracurriculares. Comparten un interés común en proyectos educativos. La oportunidad de iniciar su proyecto se produjo en septiembre de 2015, cuando Nguyen Van Trung, que tiene un doctorado en Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad Nacional de Australia, sugirió el desarrollo de un proyecto de educación abierta para universidades y niveles de educación superior. Las características más sobresalientes del proyecto son la calidad internacional, la localización y la gratuidad. Los hombres quieren eliminar las barreras en el idioma y el costo que impiden a muchas personas de estudiar oportunidades y dar más acceso vietnamita a los principales sistemas educativos del mundo. Al principio, muchos problemas se plantearon sobre el proyecto sin fines de lucro. Pero rápidamente tomaron la decisión de elegir el proyecto para iniciar su negocio. Después de consultar a expertos en diferentes temas, desde temas técnicos hasta derechos de autor, podrían encontrar una manera de operar el proyecto. Comenzaron a construir un sitio web y la elección de documentos para traducir. Las dos fuentes de documentos para la formación son de prestigiosas escuelas en el mundo con licencias y conocidos canales de Youtube en la educación.

The men aged 25 to 34 all studied at universities in South Korea, met each other by chance and became close friends after extracurricular activities. They share a common interest in education projects.

The opportunity for them to start their project came in September 2015, when Nguyen Van Trung, who has a PhD in Computer Science from Australian National University, suggested developing an open education project for university and higher education levels.

The most outstanding characteristics of the project are international quality, localization and no fee.

The men want to remove barriers in language and cost that prevent many people from study opportunities and give more Vietnamese access to the world’s leading education systems.

At first, many problems were raised about the not-for-profit project. But they quickly came to a decision to choose the project to start their business.

After consulting experts on different issues, from technical issues to copyright, they could figure out a way for the project to operate. They began building a website and choosing documents to translate.

The two sources of documents for training are from prestigious schools in the world with licenses and well-known Youtube channels on education.

In October 2015, the team began looking for voluntary translators. Many volunteers then contacted the team. They were students from foreign and domestic universities, who were encouraged by the project’s significance.

Meanwhile, the advisors tried to spend as much time as they could to help develop Kien Hoc. The team received support from Microsoft which could ease the burden on the server.

To be sure that training documents were useful, the management board only accepted ones with high quality, while the English-Vietnamese translation works were checked very thoroughly.

At first, the project developers targeted learners who could not speak English. However, now it attracts students with good English skills as well.

Kien Hoc encourages interactions and discussions among learners to avoid passive learning and the courses are designed with subtitles in Vietnamese.

To date, Kien Hoc has introduced 20 training courses with hundreds of thousands of lecture views, attracting 11,000 students. The team plans to raise the figures to 50 courses and 30,000 learners in 2017.

Fuente: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/education/169452/vietnamese-students-design-not-for-profit-education-model.html