Online degrees piloted with Australian universities Vietnam has embarked on a pilot project with five Australian universities to offer online and blended degree courses in partnership with Vietnamese universities, under a new directive allowing foreign providers to offer online courses. This could open a new chapter for blended learning in transnational education where foreign universities offer their own degrees or joint degrees with local universities, experts say. Vietnam is one of the first countries in Asia to officially allow online delivery of foreign degrees to students within the country, also known as transnational education or TNE, with other countries hesitant to change their regulations, fearing a pandora’s box of unrestricted and unmonitored ‘entry’ of foreign providers using the online space.