DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF COVID-19: THE CASE OF USING LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS) AT VNU-USSH, HANOI

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic outbreak has created global crisis and strongly affected the education sector global worldwide and Vietnam. According to the statistics of the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS), as of April 18, 2020, more than 1.57 billion pupils and students in 191 countries and territories were affected by Covid-19. In Vietnam, 21.2 million children are affected by school closure orders across the country. Facing those severe impacts of the pandemic, educational institutions, universities and businesses, especially in the IT sector, are required to change the way they operate to be able to adapt in a timely manner. And “digital transformation” is one of the most effective and most interested educational support solutions until now. The paper examines some digital transformation trends in the education sector in Vietnam and worldwide. Thereby, the paper delves into the Learning Management System (LMS) which is considered a useful tool to help support the online teaching process, especially in higher education institutions, universities and presents some research results on the current situation of using LMS in online teaching at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.