FPT Polytechnic’s Curriculum Development Department organized training workshop about methods of standardlizing learning materials approaching to CDIO standards for profession of Tourism – Travel – Restaurants & Hotels Management.
Participants of the training course includeds Mr. Huynh Van Bay – FPT Polytechnic Head of Academic Department, Ms. Ho Thi Thao Nguyen – a representative of FPT Education’s Curriculum Development Department, Ms. Vu Thi Thao – a representative of FPT Polytechnic ‘s Curriculum Development Department, Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Hang Minh – FPT Polytechnic’s Quality Assurance (QA) Manager, and other faculties and staffs. This workshop was in the process of implementing new professions in September 2015.
Within the workshop, Mr. Bay presented CDIO standards’ overview and introduced the curriculum framework of the following professions: Tourism – Travel – Restaurants Management – Hotels Management. The new profession’s curriculum had been commented and approved by Review Board inlcuded FPT University ‘s Management Board and many reputational enterprises from Ho Chi Minh City on May 27, 2015.
Additionally, Mr. Bay emphasized that the process of designing learning materials approaching to CDIO standards would be examined, followed, and approved for lessons in each course. Ms. Ho Thi Thao Nguyen said that the learning materials would be designed closing to educational objectives and meeting the required learning outcomes at the end of the courses and after student’s graduation.
This orientation will help student to strenghthen their knowledge and skills, and to meet the demands of enterprises after their graduation. It was a practical approach suggested and implemented by FPT Polytechnic’s Curriculum Development Department.
CDIO is the abbreviation of Conceive – Design – Implement – Operate which mean Conceiving ideas, Designing ideas, Implementing ideas, and Operating them. CDIO initiatives came from the idea of the engineering professions of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – the U.S.A in collaboration with Swedish universities. It is a methodology which could solve the two major issues: what to teach students (What to teach?) and How to help students to deeply understand the knowledge (How to teach?).
The training workshop finished successfully with the satisfactions and excitement of participants. New Professions of Travel – Tourism – Restaurants Management – Hotels Management will officially be launched to recruit students at FPT Polytechnic’s campuses in the nationwide.
Translated from: Cao đẳng FPT Polytechnic