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TEACHING & LEARNING

“The educational technology of VinUniversity can be captured in 3 Early Faculty Development (EFD)
words: learning-centric, best practice, and continuously improving. We
are using various technological systems and applications for teaching
and learning, and these systems focus strongly on student-centered
learning. Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, VinUniversity has integrated Selected EFD faculty will be appointed Visiting Fellows at Cornell
and combined many leading educational technologies, such as SIS, University for two semesters to receive research and teaching
Panopto, Canvas, etc., to create an online environment that helps mentorship and professional development training.
increase communication and enhance collaboration between university
members,” Cornell-VinUniversity Research
Vu Ngoc Khanh Mentorship (CVRM)
Technological Educational Officer.

This program pairs research active VinUni faculty with research active
Cornell faculty to help achieve two objectives: to improve research skills
and capacity and to maximize research productivity.

Lunch & Learn Series

Taking place every Friday for 13 weeks, this program seeks to train faculty
on how to use a mix of pedagogically focused and Canvas-focused
sessions to improve their course content and teaching approach, thus
effectively facilitating both offline and online teaching and learning.

Workshops included:
• Hybrid Teaching + IT Walkthrough: Differentiating offline from
online teaching and highlighting best practices in conducting
hybrid learning environments
• Designing Effective Assessments (Multiple choice and gap fill
questions): Explore evidence-based practices on designing
formative summative assessments and MCQs
• Building Quizzes on Canvas: Take advantage of the Full functionality
of Canvas quizzes to reduce workload
• Giving Feedback: How to provide Effective and constructive
feedback to students in various teaching contexts
• Engaging Students in Learning: Improving VinUni student
“We value high quality teaching, so right from the first year, engagement in all learning environments
we allow faculty to share with one another best practices • Canvas Gradebook + Assessments: Using SpeedGrader and
in teaching. The objective is to foster a fun, interactive, and Rubrics in assessments for efficiency, transparency and objectivity
voluntary environment wherein our faculty can sit down in grading
to catch up with each other and share about how they are • Designing Team Projects for Student Success: Planning student
promoting teaching in their own classes,”
projects to facilitate collaboration, accountability, and fair
assessment
Amita Verma • Gamification + Game-Based Learning (90-minutes): Using
Executive Director of Research Management and Gamification and Game-Based Learning to drive learning
Accreditation.
outcomes
• Panopto Advance Training: Creating and editing videos to facilitate
teaching and learning