Opportunities and Challenges of Digital Transformation in Improving Quality of Higher Education in Vietnam

Digital transformation in the world began to be discussed around 2015 and popularized since 2017. Along with the explosion of cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), digital transformation is gradually becoming a global trend, affecting all aspects of life including economy, society, education... In Vietnam, since 2018, digital transformation has received special attention from the Party and Government and up to now it has become an inevitable trend in the 4.0 digital revolution.

In this article, the author will discuss the matter of digital transformation in education, highlighting its status as an unavoidable trend on a global scale as well as locally in Vietnam. The analysis will delve into the opportunities and challenges that digital transformation presents for enhancing the quality of university education in Vietnam.

From there, with the aim to equip a workforce with digital transformation skills that meet the development requirements of the country, the author proposes a number of recommendations to speed up the implementation of digital transformation.