1 SOME CRITICAL ISSUES OF E-PEDAGOGY: A CASE STUDY AT UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION (VNU-UED) Ton Quang Cuong * , Pham Kim Chung, Dao Thi Hoa Mai Faculty of Teacher Education, VNU-UED Abstract Since 2010 the first e-learning courses had been started for teacher education program at University of Education, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU-UED). There were some non-traditional tracks of pedagogical operation and learning environment changes. These courses aim to build and deliver content knowledge in new ways of teaching to enhance learning outcomes, professional development skills for UED student-teachers. This research was conducted to approach the pedagogical perspectives of e- learning format and to present some critical issues grounded on the core principles of known learning theories (LTs) which proposed premises of e-pedagogy phenomena. Keywords: E-pedagogy, E-learning, learning theories, technology acceptance 1. Introduction Many authors and educators have documented that implementation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in higher education represents challenges and changes in pedagogical paradigm and approaches of new learning format in the 21 century [1]. Actually, with the staging of routinely use interactive technology (virtual rooms, online learning, blended learning etc.) today’s instruction and students’ activities enhance the best learning scenario. Thus the teacher's action is transformed to the extent that his or her own role encompasses a variety of tasks and functions, showing a consistent dynamic in the assimilation of content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and technology pedagogical knowledge, innovation and training for a community, circumscribed in a digital condition. The need to provide more engaged learning experience and outcome is common interest course’s designers-instructors today. And many faculty begin their own courses with primarily question: “How to change passive teaching and learning approach toward to students’ achieving high-order learning outcomes?”. Recognizing the core principles is not obvious because we know many online courses provide students and faculty the ability to interact with each other via an Corresponding author. Tel: 0903276534 Email: cuongtq@vnu.edu.vn