7. #2 Challenges

E-Learning is a remedy in certain COVID-19 situations, and we must also work towards turning challenges into opportunities. To do so, we need the cooperation of the families, school councils, society and learn more from the experiences of developed countries such as Canada, the United States...


Classically, all students are used to a social life at school, interacting and learning with friends, that's why the monotony of E-Learning which lack of physical subjects and soft skills like Sports, Break time together... it can make our students become aggressive, depressed in the long run. For all the parents, balancing their work and talking to their child attachment needs is a tough. 


So it's a important to strengthen the connection between home and school, parents and teachers would help our society to resolve students' psychological problems.


Challenges come from teachers. When teachers are not really ready for the transition to online teaching, this is the second bug. There are many teachers who are deny to film themselves, because they are afraid of filming in front of the camera, partly due to lack of skills, they are afraid that whether they confuse if they say something wrong, it will be difficult to correct it. To solve this problem, teachers need to overcome theirs fear into turn these challenges into opportunities and become E-Instructors instead of teachers.


Besides, we figured out that E-Learning was not merely a story of the education system, or the technology factors... actually that was the human factor. Human resources including teachers and students.

In addition to the teacher's challenges, E-Learners which means students also have to read E-books by themselves, self-tuition on their own and form groups to discuss. If to teachers, organizing learning activities and managing classrooms were the main task, so in a digital environment students need to give-a-hand to help theirs teachers make thing works. For E-Courses effectively will be a challenge for both.


“User-centered learning” or "Student-centered learning" are a long-standing principle. However, how to perform it and transform it from the traditional environment to the digital environment is always a big deal. Teachers need to build interactions, build discussions and prepare carefully for learners.


In the traditional classroom, there have long been models of quality management. But, to manage the quality of teaching in the digital environment, to be able to claim the quality is guaranteed, it will always be a challenge for teachers and school administrators. Managers need to have a system of indicators that are measured continuously, intuitively and transparently to have an overview and have timely quality assurance work.

The activities of creating quizzes, gamification, creating video lectures, including speaking in front of the camera and editing lesson content... are a very new chapter in building online teaching resources. There are many teaching aids and interactive game creation tools available, so teachers also need to learn how to take advantage and optimize these recreational activities in their teaching plan.


The challenge of online teaching. Initially, is the awareness and commitment of the top leadership in the organization. We want to mention about leaders such as Vice-principals, Professors and Heads of departments/councils... when this veteran team have not ready to perform theirs skills, as well as lacks of update knowledge then this will be a big barrier. 


Perhaps the leader is a traditional teacher, so he doesn't really know the destination and process of converting the number of textbooks to effectively implement E-Learning. This is the things that universities and vocational schools will have to overcomes.