Introduction to Vietnam Open Educational Resources

The Vietnam Open Educational Resources (VOER) program, supported by The Vietnam Foundation, aims to build an Open Educational Resource for Vietnamese people. VOER provides free, up-to-date, and high-quality learning materials for educational purposes.

As an open educational resource, VOER offers a rich variety of content, with knowledge presented in small modules or entire sets of materials related to a subject. Each uploaded content is created by reputable authors (such as lecturers, and industry experts), and is reviewed by other peers.

VOER allows users to download textbooks in PDF format so they can read without Internet access or print it out as normal paper books. Without copyright fees, printed books like that are cost-effective and accessible for most students. All materials are available for free use, reuse, and access, initially for educational, teaching, and research environments, and ultimately for the whole society.

VOER is not exclusively for Vietnamese users; as an open educational resource, it is accessible to users worldwide. In addition to collaborating with universities globally to gather up-to-date, high-quality materials for users in Vietnam, VOER also helps share Vietnamese history, literature, and culture with the global community. VOER has become an essential portal for students and educators both within and outside Vietnam. According to the system’s records, VOER receives over 80,000 visits per day. To date, the program has over 22,000 knowledge modules contributed by more than 10,000 authors.