NewsSupport policies for small- and medium-sized enterprises need to be updated if they are to develop, a senior Government official told a workshop in HCM City on July 28.
Successful e-learning project in the tourism sector
DT Ha
Small and medium size enterprises in the tourism sector of Vietnam have difficulties getting their employees trained at an affordable cost. A replication of a Danida supported e-learning project now helps them meet the needs of the fast growing industry while providing substantial employment and foreign exchange earnings for the country.
Top trends in e-learning and corporate training
This is an exciting time of change in enterprise learning and talent management. The tight labor market, coupled with the increased focus on integrated performance and learning strategies, will force further alignment between training and HR. Learning technologies will evolve, and self-published content and collaboration will become a significant element in enterprise learning solutions. Organizations will continue to evolve toward shared services and struggle to build integrated business plans that incorporate learning across the organization.
Bridge Office and Moodle via New Add-in from Microsoft
The Office Add-in for Moodle is not the first tool from Microsoft designed to bridge the Moodle Course Management System (CMS) with its own technologies. In mid-2009, the Redmond-based company released an open-source Live Services Plug-in for Moodle, and now teachers running two pervasive teaching solutions, Office and Moodle, have a new add-in available for download. The Office Add-in for Moodle promises to streamline as best as possible accessing documents in Moodle, as well as uploading files, straight from Microsoft Office. At this point in time, only Office 2003 and Office 2007 are supported, allowing teachers to open and save Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to a Moodle website.
First group of OMT trainers received Master Online Teacher Certificate from the Illinois Online Network (ION)
On April 8th, 2010, the first group of Vietnamese online instructors (OMT trainers and associates based in Hanoi and Dak Lak) officially received the Master Online Teacher Certificate from the Illinois Online Network (ION) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, one of US’s top-ranked public universities.
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Courses in this cluster aim to help companies to better navigate and manage external factors in their business environment and cover areas such as marketing, customer service and strategic management. 
Finance Management courses provide participants with fundanmental knowledge, principles of and tools for financial management in Vietnamese companies. These courses are scalable and practical, offering best practices and hands-on experience from practitioners. 
These courses are designed especially for the small business owners, production managers and QA/QC managers of small and medium enterprises. Participants are equipped with just-enough concepts and theories of operation management and quality management, while are shown real-life examples and practical tips on how to implement these best practices in their own business to save on production cost and improve their bottom line. 
OMT courses in this cluster are specifically designed for business owners, production managers and QA/QC maangers in the agri business and food processing industry. Participants are equipped with key concepts, principles and standards of food safety and hygiene, learn to apply these principles and standards in their productions of foodstuffs to meet the general safety and hygiene requirements of the domestic and export markets. 
Professionalism and effective inter-personal skills have become order of the day for the managers in Vietnamese businesses. To meet the increasing needs for “soft skills” training especially by companies located away from major urban hubs, with limited access to traditional classroom trainining, the OMT program offers online management skills training courses, focusing on the following essential skills
