Abstract
Education in Vietnam is trying to make use of the values of the digital technology revolution. As one of the eight key fields of National Digital Transformation, education needs to find ways to develop and take advantage of opportunities to be able to shape the future of society with high-quality human resources. As a huge challenge, the Covid-19 pandemic has quickly put pressure on the past predicted trends in education such as the “university of the future”, but, from a positive viewpoint, it also brings a big opportunity for universities to make the transformation, from classic one to the new and trendy university – the digital one. The paper analyzes in-depth the factors affecting the readiness of Vietnamese students for digital transformation in the above context. The research model is built based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) theory and corrects necessary variables. The results show that the impact of Covid-19, self-study ability and attitude are the factors that have the most influence on the willingness to shift the learning method towards digitization. According to the result, the authors will propose several recommendations on improving the readiness of Vietnamese students for the digital transformation of education and training. Thereby helping students change to adapt to learning activities when the pandemic appears, and know how to take advantage of digital transformation. Keywords: digital transformation, Covid-19, awareness, attitude, self-study DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-16-04 Publication date: June 30 th 2021
Highlights
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has put pressure on the education industry around the world
Studies have demonstrated that external factors play an important role in explaining technology adoption behavior, due to limited resources, the research team did not go into depth to assess the influence of these factors; our research focuses on the acceptance of technology application in student learning activities
The official questionnaire is completed in order to conduct a formal quantitative survey with a sample size of 913 students currently enrolled in universities in Vietnam
Summary
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has put pressure on the education industry around the world. According to UNICEF data released on 3/3/2021, about 168 million students worldwide had to miss school for nearly 1 year; 14 countries closed their schools between March 2020 and February 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. This has caused a disruption in all teaching and learning activities, pushing educational and training institutions to immediately devise methods to allow students to "stop going to school but not stop learning". The Covid-19 pandemic has put pressure on the education industry, while simultaneously providing a tremendous motivation for digital transformation. It is necessary to take advantage of IR 4.0 to close the space and time gap, bringing Vietnamese education closer to the quality of international education
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