vnEdu – A Comprehensive Digital Education Ecosystem Accompanying the Education Sector in the Digital Era

From operational digitization to building a synchronized digital education ecosystem

In the national digital transformation process, education is one of the prioritized sectors for promoting technology adoption, innovating management methods, and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning. In particular, the restructuring and merging of educational institutions along with data standardization requirements pose new challenges regarding centralized management, information synchronization, and ensuring uninterrupted system operations.

Reality shows that when software for student management, teacher profiles, admissions, online learning, and parent communication operates independently, data tends to become fragmented and duplicated, creating difficulties in aggregation, reporting, and administration. Teachers are burdened with multiple data entry tasks, while administrators lack unified tools to monitor information.

To solve this problem, VNPT has developed the vnEdu digital education ecosystem towards comprehensively integrating management, teaching, and learning activities on the same platform.

Instead of deploying separate software, vnEdu connects solutions for school administration, entry-level admissions, digital academic records and profiles, learning management, digital libraries, cashless payments, smart attendance, and parent interaction. Information is shared and utilized seamlessly across subsystems, minimizing duplicate data entry while establishing a unified data foundation for educational management.

Currently, the vnEdu ecosystem serves more than 15.000 educational institutions nationwide, progressively affirming its role as a platform accompanying educational institutions in the digital transformation process.

A comprehensively integrated, data-centric ecosystem

The highlight of vnEdu lies in its ability to connect administrative and professional activities into a seamless digital process, from admissions, student management, teaching organization, testing and evaluation, to record archiving and family-school connectivity.

In administration, the vnEdu system supports schools with centralized management of student, teacher, classroom, and professional activity information. The vnEdu HSS digital record solution enables the management of lesson plans and professional records electronically, combined with digital signatures to simplify the approval process and reduce reliance on traditional paper documents.

In admissions, vnEdu Enrollment provides end-to-end support from online registration, receipt, and review to the announcement of results. The system is developed to meet the requirements of organizing admissions within a two-tier local government model, while also applying GIS technology to support admissions based on geographical distance and serve centralized admission plans.

For teaching and learning activities, VNPT E-Learning and vnEdu LMS provide an environment for organizing online courses, assigning homework, conducting tests, assessing performance, and managing question banks. Combined with the vnEdu DigiLib digital library, the vnEdu Content digital learning materials system, and interactive lecture building tools, teachers are equipped with additional resources to innovate their teaching methods.

Learning contents are supported by 3D simulation technology, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR), contributing to visualizing knowledge, increasing interactivity, and sparking students' interest.

In addition, the ecosystem also integrates utilities such as smart attendance tracking applying artificial intelligence (AI), facial recognition, digital payment, and school-parent communication.

Notably, the integration of technology platforms within the VNPT ecosystem, such as the remote digital signature VNPT SmartCA, VNPT Money, eKYC electronic identification, and vnFace facial recognition, helps establish a synchronized digital service chain, reducing dependence on fragmented solutions from multiple vendors.

Standardizing and interconnecting data to meet the management requirements of the education sector

Beyond addressing operational needs at individual schools, vnEdu is developed with the orientation of building a unified educational database that serves management, administration, and decision-making at multiple levels.

The system supports connecting and synchronizing data with the sector database of the Ministry of Education and Training, while also assisting in verifying student information through identification codes and relevant data platforms in accordance with regulations.

Standardizing data right from collection, updating, and utilization helps minimize duplicate information, enhance record accuracy, and facilitate statistical and reporting activities.

In particular, VNPT IT has collaborated with the Department of Information Technology under the Ministry of Education and Training in advising on the development of data architecture frameworks, data governance frameworks, shared data catalogs, and the sector's data dictionary.

This serves as an important foundation for the vnEdu ecosystem to continue developing towards a data-centric approach, meeting requirements for interoperability, information sharing, and data-driven educational administration support.

In the context of school network restructuring, vnEdu has also been upgraded to support a management model encompassing main schools, branch campuses, and satellite locations. This facilitates data consolidation and standardization across multiple educational institutions while maintaining continuity in administration and teaching.

Cloud computing platform ensuring scalability and information security

To meet the demands of large-scale operations, vnEdu is built on a service-oriented architecture, supports a multi-tenant model, and is delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS) on the VNPT Cloud infrastructure.

This model helps educational institutions reduce investment and operational costs for on-premises servers, while also making it easier to scale usage and update new features.

The system is supported by the data center infrastructure of VNPT, in which the Nam Thang Long Data Center has been certified as Tier III by Uptime Institute. VNPT Cloud holds ISO/IEC 27017 certification for cloud computing information security; the data centers comply with ISO/IEC 27001 standards.

Solutions are deployed in conjunction with requirements for ensuring information security, access control, data protection, and compliance with personal data protection regulations, especially regarding students' information.

Thanks to its centralized infrastructure platform, vnEdu aims to ensure stable operations and flexible expansion, meeting the demands of regular utilization as well as peak periods throughout the school year.

Step-by-step application of AI, heading towards a smart educational environment

Along with perfecting management and learning platforms, VNPT is gradually introducing artificial intelligence into the vnEdu ecosystem to enhance the level of automation and support users in their daily activities.

One of the typical applications is smart attendance using facial recognition technology combined with anti-spoofing mechanisms, helping schools automatically record attendance information and reduce manual operations.

In professional activities, online learning platforms, question banks, testing systems, and digital learning resources continue to be improved to help teachers design, organize, and evaluate the learning process more effectively.

Combining educational data with AI technologies opens up the possibility of developing analytical tools, supporting management, and personalizing learning activities in the future, based on ensuring requirements for security, privacy, and data governance.

This orientation shows that vnEdu not only focuses on digitizing existing processes but also aims to build a smart educational environment where technology plays a role in supporting teachers and enhancing students' learning experiences.

Affirming technological capabilities through domestic and international awards

Throughout its development, products within the vnEdu ecosystem have been recognized at numerous prestigious technology awards.

In 2020, vnEdu was honored in the Top 10 Sao Khue and won the First Prize of Make in Viet Nam. In 2021, the product continued to receive the Silver Award at the ASEAN ICT Awards, while VNPT E-Learning won the Stevie Awards Gold Trophy in the Excellent Online Learning Solution category.

Specialized solutions within the ecosystem also made their mark with the Sao Khue 2022 for vnEdu IOC, the IT World Awards 2022 for vnEdu Enrollment, and the Globee Business Awards Silver Award 2024 in the Innovation in Education category for vnEdu DigiLib.

These awards contribute to affirming VNPT's R&D capabilities in Make in Viet Nam technology products, while demonstrating its dedication to developing solutions tailored to the practical needs of the education sector.

vnEdu – Partnering to build a comprehensive digital education

Digital transformation in education is not simply replacing paper records with electronic data, but a process of changing management methods, organizing teaching and learning, and connecting stakeholders within the educational system.

With a strategy geared toward developing an integrated, data-centric ecosystem combining cloud computing infrastructure, AI technology, and shared digital platforms, vnEdu is gradually meeting the digital transformation needs of the Education sector, from management levels down to individual educational institutions.

Not only does it help schools reduce administrative workloads, assist teachers in innovating teaching methods, and make it easier for parents to support their children, vnEdu also contributes to forming a unified data platform serving management, administration, and educational policymaking.

With the vnEdu digital education ecosystem, VNPT continues to affirm its role as a Vietnamese technology enterprise accompanying the Education sector, aiming towards building a modern management environment, smart teaching and learning, and a connected, safe, and sustainable digital education system.

For more detailed information about the vnEdu digital education ecosystem, please visit https://vnptit.vn/products/education or contact the hotline 1800 1260.