What I do?

SYNTHESIS OF EXPERIENCES

* Academic qualification: Doctor in Educational Sciences, Universite of Strasbourg. Thesis title: “The ICT supporting the training quality: case study of the Vietnamese programmes assessed by the ASEAN University Network” <http://www.theses.fr/2017STRAG004>. [Fulltext in French]

* Experiences: More than 20 years of works, especially specialized in the using of ICT to support the quality of teaching, training, research and university governance.

• Teaching: Experiences acquired in teaching at the secondary and tertiary levels (Ho Chi Minh University of Technology, Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities).
• Research: Associated researcher of the Learning Sciences and Communication Laboratory (LISEC – University of Strasbourg...) Collaborator in research projects conducted by national or international entities (Center for Educational Testing and Quality Assessment – Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Rés@TICE, LISEC…)
  • Fields of interest: educational quality; education reforms; using of ICT in education; research management; scientific communication.
• Innovation projects: Coordination or expertise of lots of innovation projects in governance and training in many Vietnamese higher education institutions: Hanoi University; Danang University; Can Tho University; Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology; University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City ; Ho Chi Minh City of Education; Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City…
• Training: Organization, coordination, assistant trainer or principal trainer of over 70 training workshops on using of ICT in teaching and research for more than one thousand faculties and staffs from several dozens of higher education institutions in many countries: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, China, Mongolia, Vanuatu, Mauritius...

RESEARCH AND EXPERTISE FIELDS

• Quality of general education, higher education and university rankings
• Integration of ICT in teaching and training
• Design, development and utilization of interactive pedagogical activities and online courses
• Searching, assessing and using of scientific and technical information
• Methods and tools for scientific references management
• Scientific writing, publication, communication and bibliometrics
• Electronic documents management and archiving
• Methods and tools for mind mapping design

OTHER INFORMATIONS

* Languages:

• Vietnamese: mother tongue;
• English: professional proficiency;
• French: full proficiency.

* Computers skills: good knowledge of Windows, willingness with Linux and Open-source softwares

• Office: very good knowledge of OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice.org, Microsoft Office...;
• Graphics: ractice of image processing (Photoshop, GIMP...) and vector designing (Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, FreeCAD...); good knowledge of free mind mapping tools (FreePlane, CmapTools, XMind, VUE, EDraw...);
• Audiovisual: practice of audiovisual processing tools (Audacity, Final Cut Pro, VSDC Free Video Editor, OBS, Filmora...);
• Web: experiences acquired as webmaster and administrator of Internet forums (phpBB, vBulletin), Web portals and CMS (Joomla, SPIP, WordPress, Drupal) and learning content management systems (Moodle, Claroline, Canvas, Open edX...);
• Educational & scientific applications: very good knowledge of educational and quiz designing tools (HotPotatoes, Xerte Toolkits, Scenari Chain & Opale, Open eLearning, Lumi...) and bibliographic management (Zotero, Mendeley, ZabRef, Docear…); practice of quantitative analysis tools (R, SAS, SPSS...);
• Project management applications: practice of open project management softwares (GanttProject, OpenWorkbench).

* Hobbies & Interests: sport (football, badminton, chess), photography and literature (with the publication, among others, of the translation in Vietnamese of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novella “The Little Prince”, by the Vietnamese Writers’ Association Publishing House in 2005, then republished with corrections in reinforcement by the Vietnamese Women’s Publishing House in 2021 and 2022. This translation, among several others, was selected in 2020 for the textbook Literature 6^th of the Vietnamese Education Publishing House (2021) and Literature 8^th of the University of Education Publishing House (2023).

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