Smartcom: Passion from Insight

Choosing English as his second language at Hanoi University and Hanoi Foreign Trade University, Nguyen Anh Duc laid a solid language foundation for himself. This leads the path to success of Nguyen Anh Duc nowadays.

 

With the determination and consensus of his friends and relatives, Nguyen Anh Duc started his own businesses with very poor facilities at an old office on Thai Thinh Street to create software for teaching English online. He remembers the early days with a lot of difficulties when he started joining the education market by opening an English centre with the first 80 students. The first 80 students reflects nothing, but this small number brought meaningful rewards to Duc on the very beginning days of his professional business. The first milestone motivated him to continue to develop his learning model. Smartcom got to be known by more and more people and Nguyen Anh Duc soon became a young entrepreneur with passion and assertiveness in the 8X generation.

 

Currently, he is the founder and CEO of Smartcom, one of the renowned companies in the field of E-learning. Although he is busy with his leadership role, Nguyen Anh Duc is still always enamoured with the teaching profession and every week, he teaches three classes to expose his enthusiasm and strong inspiration to the teaching career. This helps him to exploit the potential capacity of the learners and motivate them a lot. Because of the exciting and inspiring lectures, Nguyen Anh Duc always attracts thousands of participants in every class, and three such courses are opened each year.

 

Recently, he is of very few Vietnamese people who won the scholarship for a leadership-training programme at Harvard University. The leadership course at Harvard will be taught by leading Harvard professors as well as the leading experts from Harvard and from countries around the world. In order to participate in the leadership training programme, the candidates have to prove their real leadership talent and their companies' revenue must be over VND100 billion per year. Although the revenue of Smartcom Corporation has not reached VND100 billion per year, Duc still convinced Harvard's professors with his sincerity and 8 year leadership experiences.

 

Born in 1981, he has more of an 8X person's youthful features and a maturity of a man who has experienced many ups and downs in a turbulent life. However, a smile is always on his face. Characterized by the white sunglasses and a round face, Duc is really an open person to many people at first sight. And when asked about the English programme for Vietnamese people, he keeps talking about his passion and lights up the passion of those who listen. He stressed that passion is the main motivation, which helps hem to continue researching and launching new software and English programmes to attract new learners.

 

Smartcom is an English centre, which is proud to be the only educational institution in Vietnam to write training programmes and offer international standard training. Smartcom is also known as the only institution to successfully develop and apply an advanced learning - the Hybrid Learning model, also known as Blended Learning in the English language training. The model is a combination of self study, face-to-face classroom methods and online learning. This model is known as a unique point of the English training model of Smartcom as well as the most advanced and effective English learning model in Vietnam this moment.

Based on the level of technology, financial strength and brainpower, Hybrid Learning programme is divided into two main levels: one is for the low-level learners and another for high level learners. At each level, the learners are open to have different applications to achieve the most effective outcomes. The most advantage of the Hybrid Learning model is to help all students maximise every lesson through online databases and continuous interactions with friends and teachers that they do not directly meet. With this advantage, Hybrid Learning model has been widely applied in many countries with developed education.

Nguyen Anh Duc has replicated the Hybrid Learning model through software and a variety of language programmes to awaken potential English learners. Along with English training programmes, Smartcom starts providing soft skills training courses.

 

Smartcom has become a phenomenon of the special English training market for its capacity of providing leading high-quality and professional training services in the Vietnamese market today. As of 2012, Smartcom had trained more than 150,000 students through the online learning and 9,500 students through the Hybrid Learning model. And now many corporations, universities and academies have taken advantages of the training solutions provided by the Smartcom. The passion from the insight of Nguyen Anh Duc and the Smartcom brand has reached out to light up the overseas dreams of Vietnamese.