eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2018-06-07 6 6 804 810 10.12691/education-6-6-32 EDUCATION20186632 article Nguyen Thi Thanh Hong hongtlgd@gmail.com 1 Trinh Thuy Giang 1 Nguyen Nam Phuong 1 Mai Quoc Khanh 1 Faculty of Psychology and Education, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam Education is a subject that directly demonstrates occupational characteristics of teaching career, setting up an important professional foundation for teacher education at pedagogical universities in Vietnam. This subject equips teacher students with basic modern theories of education to create their pedagogical skills so that after graduation they can conduct well their teaching and education activities, enabling them to continuously improve their pedagogical capacity to meet the increasing demands of education. One of the new directions to improve the teaching quality of the subject Education is the use of E-learning to organize self-study activities for teacher students in pedagogical universities. In order to have an effective E-learning model, we conducted a survey on the reality of using E-learning in organizing self-study activities in the subject Education for teacher students of Vietnam's pedagogical universities. The results gained in the survey will be an important practical basis for schools to adopt E-learning methods in an appropriate and quality way. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/6/6/32/education-6-6-32.pdf status E-learning self-study teacher students the subject Education pedagogical universities