The role of teaching and learning technologies in multicultural education in the era of integration and globalization

Abstract

The era of integration and globalization has opened lots  of  opportunities  for  global cooperation, exchange  and  communication  with  mutual  understanding  for  an interdependent world. There is now a tendency towards multicultural education in higher education. In this tendency, the social-cultural competence has become the key competence for University students to become successful and happy “global citizens” with cultural tolerance and effective communication skills. They can make contributions to the development of the country and the peaceful, stable world. Meanwhile, in the process of industrialization and modernization, Vietnam is in need of high-quality human resource with professional knowledge, social-cultural competence and high-order thinking skills as well as other skills necessary for the 21^st century. Therefore, multicultural education has become an issue of great concern in higher education. There  are  many measures  to develop various models of multicultural education. Especially, teaching and learning technologies have been playing an increasingly crucial role in enhancing multicultural education. The paper proposes the importance of multicultural education at Universities as well as some ideas for the effective use of ICT, teaching and learning technologies in multicultural education in higher education