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Trainer Summit in Hanoi promotes e-learning

The Trainer Summit, themed “Raising income with online training”, took place in Hanoi on July 26, giving lecturers a platform to promote e-learning environment in Vietnam.
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Hanoi (VNA) – The Trainer Summit, themed “Raisingincome with online training”, took place in Hanoi on July 26, giving lecturersa platform to promote e-learning environment in Vietnam.

Speaking at the event, Chairman of the Vietnam InternetAssociation (VIA) Vu Hoang Lien said the VIA serves as a bridge linkingtogether its members as service providers and software makers, making it easierfor them to develop e-training.

A survey from the Unica training facility said only 8percent of firms nationwide are turning to online learning solutions while 7percent of others are piloting them. The figure is expected to surge to 28percent in the next two years.

Unica founder Nguyen Trong Tho said online training couldserve millions of users, save their time and travelling cost. Meanwhile,traditional classrooms sometimes face the lack of students, leading to limitedincome for lecturers and high tuition fees.

During the event co-hosted by VIA and Unica, more than 800people interested in online training career shared their experience in how tobecome a successful online trainer, including producing online curricula andexpanding the market.

In Vietnam, 40 percent of its population subscribe toInternet, mostly young people. The Vietnamese spend up to 3-4 billion USD onsending their children to abroad for study. The online training market growsover 40 percent annually with an estimated worth of no more than 2 billion USD.

According to the Topica Founder Institute, Vietnam recorded309 projects in education-training with a total registered capital of more than767 million USD at the end of 2016.-VNA
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