An Analysis of the Difficulties in Learning Soft Skills through the Synchrounous E-learning for Students of Public Universities in Vietnam

The Covid-19 pandemic has spread and seriously affected the whole world since its first appearance in 2019. In early 2021, after two successful anti-epidemic attempts, Covid-19 broke out again with the relatively big number of Coronavirus infected cases in the community in Vietnam. When the government decided to apply social distancing, Vietnamese Ministry of Education immediately allowed pupils and students to be off school and conduct synchronous e-learning at home. The implementation of this form of Synchronous e-learning this time is not new to both learners and lecturers as well as universities. However, it cannot be said that the form of Synchronous e-learning in Vietnam has been well built or met the needs of learners. There are still a few limitations when the adaptation is temporary in the context of the pandemic. Without major changes in methods and programs, the teaching of skill subjects through the Synchronous e-learning has to face challanges. This causes the students to find it very difficult to learn the subjects and the learning results seem to be not high. The authors choose to study these difficulties to give solutions to the problems.