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Competence-based Education in Media and Communications

News Monday, 09:00 10-05-2021

While the traditional teaching method focuses on transferring knowledge from teachers to the learners, competence-based education motivates them to acquire, create and translate knowledge into reality effectively. Competence-based education is to train the capacity and active thinking so the learners know how to make the best out of other people’s knowledge and apply what they have learnt into real-life situations. Based on the concept and experiences of competence-based education, the author proposes some recommendations to standardize the media and communication programs at the Academy of Journalism and Communication in particular and in the country in general.


Source: Journal of Political Theory and Communications, no 11 (2019).

Vu Thanh Van

PhD, Academy of Journalism and Communication

Some solutions to improve the quality of online political theory education at universities in Vietnam in the context of the current industrial revolution 4.0

Abstract: The Industrial Revolution 4.0 has been having strong and deep effects on all fields of social life, including higher education in general and political theory education in particular. In the development trend of the era, universities in Vietnam are comprehensively renovating and implementing online training method to meet the needs of developing high-quality human resources in the digital era. Online training is considered an optimal choice in the current context. The article mentions the advantages and disadvantages when applying the online training method in political theory subjects to students of the universities in Vietnam and proposes some basic solutions to improve the quality of political theory education at universities in Vietnam in the context of the current Industrial Revolution 4.0.