Education Ministry Orders a National Smart-Learning Platform With a Vietnamese AI Tutor That Must Be 95% Accurate
Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training has published Decision No. 3190/QĐ-BGDĐT approving a commissioned strategic-technology task to build a national smart-education platform that applies “controlled” artificial intelligence and mixed-reality systems, VietnamPlus reported on November 6. The project sits under the special national science, technology and innovation programme on strategic technologies, and the organisation that carries it out will be chosen through a selection process.
The goal is to research and master three core technology groups under the “Make in Vietnam” banner: controlled educational AI, mixed reality and digital simulation, and education data infrastructure with interoperability standards. The resulting products, a Vietnamese-language AI tutor and an Eduverse mixed-reality system, must reach technology readiness level 7, be tested in real classrooms with priority for general education, and guarantee data sovereignty and technological self-reliance.
The ministry lists 12 requirements. The tutor, which combines a learning assistant for students with a teaching assistant for teachers, must follow the 2018 general education curriculum and Vietnamese culture, answer correctly at least 95% of the time, be piloted in at least 30 schools with 20,000 students and win acceptance of at least 80%. Eduverse needs a web-based XR core for AR and VR on computers, phones and headsets, no-code or low-code authoring tools, at least 30 mixed-reality lessons split between history, geography and culture and STEM, and four virtual laboratories with at least 20 experiments. The work must be completed within 36 months of contract signature.
What it means in practice
The order turns earlier policy into procurement, following the ministry’s draft national AI education framework and free platform and private outreach such as Viettel and IIG’s free AI contest for high school students. For schools, a 95% accuracy bar and an 80% acceptance target are clearer benchmarks than most edtech tenders offer, while the stress on “controlled” AI signals that answers must stay inside the curriculum rather than roam the open web.
What to watch is which organisations win the selection, how accuracy will be measured and by whom, and whether the platform actually lightens teachers’ workload or simply adds another system to manage.