Educamp

Abstract

FPT Education has long strived to become a learning organization, which, by definition, is one skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights. Therefore, since 2014, FPT Education has firstly launched Educamp, an annual educational conference. Educamp is to connect educators and industry experts, in and out of Vietnam, to share ideas, knowledge, and experiences to enhance Vietnamese education. In the range of this paper, the author will describe and evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of Educamp at FPT Education and which specific outcomes this conference has directly brought to the faculty and staff of FPT Education. Firstly, the author will give an overview introduction of the concepts of 'learning organization', as well as of 'Educamp'. Educamp's main purposes and its continuous development throughout five years at FPT Education will also be provided in this paper. Previous conferences' themes and topics will be compared to the trends in education of the respective years. Secondly, how Educamp has had the positive impact(s) on FPT Education will be analyzed. An online survey, which consists of open answer questions, will be conducted on a group of Educamp's past participants. The actual comments and feedback from them will serve as the base for said analysis. The survey results indicate that Educamp's participants, both educators and industry experts, are 'transformed' after participating in the conference, hence showing a positive impact of Educamp on FPT Education. Last but not least, the author will suggest some other models to enhance building the learning organization model at FPT Education.