The Ho Chi Minh University of Sciences has successfully applied a new pedagogic model: Experiential Learning for students from Bachelor of Science in Management with a major in International Business collaborated between HCMUS-VNU, Vietnam and Keuka College, USA. From 2011 up till now, this model has had 203 graduated students, 30 business projects and contributed almost 200 millions dong for social activities.
Every class is a company:
Frankly different from other traditional teaching methods, Experiential Learning is a heuristic approach through pragmatic projects. Specifically, knowledge from IT, business, telecommunication, public relationship, human resources, finance will be delivered in a visual and realistic manner through “every class is a company” teaching model.
A discussion in our model class
With that saying, students do not only hold firmly their lectures in classes but also they can figure out a way to apply that knowledge into their projects: planning and delivering project or deploying products. Moreover, this model also inspires students to have a passion in learning and studying, because they can see the value right in front of their eyes. This shall be used as a motivation for themselves.
Professor Paul McAfee (Keuka College, USA) said: “How companies arrange weekly meeting to present their plan and resolve their problem is the best way students can apply what they’ve learnt into reality”. Furthermore, international students from both IT and Business programs have the opportunity of working together on startup projects.
To the worthy results
By experiencing this kind of model, students shall build their own principles of skill set like: having presentation, team working and most importantly resolving problems.
When we witnessed the students stayed up late together just to catch up with deadline or team leaders urgently put up a meeting with their teammates when the competition between each group was too harsh, we can see the business flame burning inside.
A memorable moment in a charity trip after the successful event.
Phuong Uyen, student from the international program said: “What we’ve learnt here is not only come out from textbooks, we’ve learnt from these projects and pragmatic field trips. I believe that this shall be our concrete foundations before taking off to the next flight in our careers”.
Prof. Paul McAfee
Please join us in our Experiential Learning seminar, presented by Prof. Paul McAfee (Keuka College, USA).
Time: 9 am 20/8/2016
Location: 227 Nguyễn Văn Cừ, Dist.5 HCMC.
Booking at: 090 7171 140 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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