Nam Van Kieu
ABSTRACT
The boom of 4.0 technology has changed the educational perspective of the world in general and Vietnam in particular. Advanced technologies will be applied to teaching, making school experiences more diverse and meeting the development requirements of the times. Education is developed as an ecosystem, where all elements are linked together through cyberspace and cloud computing. Online courses have become popular and increasingly asserted their role in modern education when satisfying a wide range of learners, saving costs and especially eliminating geographical distance barriers. Vietnam is one of the Asian countries strongly developing online training. In 2017, according to statistics from University World News, Asia is the world's second largest market for online training and Vietnam ranks in the top 10 Asian countries developing this field. In terms of direction from the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, universities need to play a key part in the implementation and development of online training. However, after a period of organizing online teaching, universities admit that apart from the benefits, online education has negative effects on learners. In this study, the writer studies a negative effect that is the decline in soft skills of learners.
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- The Decline in Students' Soft Skills after Long Online Courses: A Study at Vietnamese Universities
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