IQRI Update

ANUGERAH KUALITI KUMPULAN METEOR

2009-07-02T11:52:00.013+08:00

2 July - Prof. Ir. Dr. Rosli Hamir, Naib Presiden (Pengurusan Pelajar & Pembangunan Kampus) selaku Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Kerja Anugerah Kualiti OUM telah memberi taklimat berkenaan Anugerah Kualiti Tahunan Kumpulan METEOR pada majlis Perhimpunan Perpaduan Kumpulan METEOR 03/2009. Bagi kali ini, kategori yang telah dibuka adalah Anugerah Inovatif (Kumpulan).

Tujuan AIK adalah untuk menggalakkan pemikiran inovatif dan semangat kerja berkumpulan.

Kategori penyertaan adalah:

-Meningkatkan kecekapan
-Meningkatkan khidmat pelanggan
-Menjadikan tempat kerja lebih selamat dan kondusif
-Lain lain inovasi yang memberi impak positif

Kitaran Pelaksanaan:

-Penyertaan dibuka sepanjang tahun
-Penganugerahan 2 kali setahun:
-Januari dan Julai

Syarat Penyertaan:

-Terbuka kepada semua warga KUMPULAN METEOR
-Ahli kumpulan terdiri dari staf Jabatan/Bahagian yang sama atau pelbagai
-Mempunyai penasihat dikalangan MPTU (kecuali GMC)

Hadiah dan Anugerah:

- Hadiah bernilai RM 5000.00 bagi projek yang dapat memberi impak yang paling besar kepada kumpulan meteor.
-Hadiah merit bernilai RM 2000.00 bagi projek yang berpotensi
-Pemberian Sijil Anugerah, Sijil merit dan sijil penyertaan

Ingin menyertainya?

Sila muat turun borang penyertaan di sini sekarang!

IQRI
Sekretariat Anugerah Kualiti (SAK)

Academic Tea Talk 03/09

2009-04-13T08:49:00.004+08:00

The tea talk held on 31 March comprised of two presentations on:

Learning 2.0 by Prof Dr Zoraini Wati Abas, and
Lessons learnt on Mobile Learning from the IADIS Conference 2009 by Danny Ch’ng Loi Peng, Harvinder Kaur and Yuzery Yusoff

Attended by 27 participants in the Conference Room, many expressed that the session on Learning 2.0 was an eye-opener for them. The reports on mobile learning from the converence attended by Danny, Harvinder and Yuzery were interesting and highlighted some of the lessons learnt.

9th International Conference on Information, 12-13 August 2009

2009-03-17T11:33:00.002+08:00

OUM will be organising the ICI9 Conference on Learning Innovations in Higher Education at the Legend Hotel, 12-13 August.

For details, visit: http://ici9.oum.edu.my/

Anugerah Akademik Negara (AAN) 2008

2009-03-16T11:34:00.008+08:00

The Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE)briefed all invitees of all public and private universities at the Bengkel Jerayawara Anugerah Akademik Negaraat PICC in Putrajaya today. MOHE is inviting applications for any or all of the six national academic awards:

As stated at the Web site: "AAN merupakan anugerah tahunan berprestij tinggi yang merangkumi enam kategori utama iaitu:

Anugerah Tokoh Akademik Negara

Anugerah Penerbitan Makalah Jurnal

Anugerah Penerbitan Buku

Anugerah Inovasi dan Pengkomersialan Produk

Anugerah Seni dan Kreativiti

Anugerah Pengajaran"

A quick overview of the AAN 2008 awards can be obtained from:

Anugerah Akademik Negara 2008

View more presentations from zoraini.

Details such as the criteria and application forms are available from MOHE's Web site at: http://www.mohe.gov.my/aan2008/index.htm. The deadline is 5pm on 4 May 2009.

Academic Tea Talk 2/2009, 19 February

2009-02-21T13:26:00.005+08:00

IQRI's sec and academic tea talk in 2009 was officiated by Y.Bhg. Professor Tan Sri Anuwar Ali, Vice-Chancellor and President, Open University Malaysia and attended by Prof Mansor Fadzil, Senior Vice President as well as other GMC members, Puan Hajjah Kamariah Mohd Noor, Prof Ramli Bahroom and Encik Che Omar Hj Ahmad along with about 50 faculty and administrative staff members.

The papers presented include:

- A study learner readiness for mobile learning at Open University Malaysia by Danny Chng Loi Peng

- Implementation of m-learning: Pedagogical perspectives by Harvinder Kaur Dharam Singh

- A conceptual framework for OUM m-learning portal by Yuzery Yusoff

- Smart Tool for Virtual Learning by Dr. Safiah Yusof

- Demo of the Pulse Smartpen by Mr. Mike Lim, Big Ant Sdn Bhd

The papers on OUM's mobile learning initiatives will next be presented at the IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2009 in Barcelona, Spain, 26 - 28 February 2009.

The purpose of the presentations at the tea talk was to, among others, to solicit any suggestions on how to improve their presentations during the conference.

IA Retreat, 5-7 February

2009-02-21T13:00:00.005+08:00

IQRI's first retreat for OUM internal auditors was held at Awana Genting. It was officiated and declared open by YBhg Professor Tan Sri Anuwar Ali, President and Vice-Chancellor at 3pm. Tan Sri emphasized the need for OUM to ensure quality in all aspects of our work at OUM when catering to the needs of our learners. He stressed the need for workshop participants to also deliberate on how they can further contribute to OUM's quality journey.

The workshop started with a panel comprising the heads of the four departments that have ISO certification and the Chief Financial Officer. Chaired by Prof Madya Dr. Wahab, the panel members shared some of their experiences and issues surfaced during auditing or in preparation for audits. This provided some of the input necessary for further deliberation by OUM internal auditors.

Attended by about 50 internal auditors, the retreat aimed to provide and enhance skills in finding the root cause of problems, such as those uncovered through audits. The workshop was facilitated by two external facilitators along with Prof Madya Dr. Wahab and Puan Ruzita, our chief internal auditor and deputy chief internal auditor, respectively, together with Prof Zoraini, IQRI Director and Tn Hj Mohd Izanee, PP Kuantan Director, the workshop achieved its objectives.

The resolution from the workshop were shared with SVP and will soon be presented to the members of the GMC.

Other January Events

2009-02-21T11:39:00.002+08:00

15 January

OUMH 1103 students informed of OUM's mobile learning initiative. View m-Learning portal at http://mlearn.oum.edu.my/

Attended meeting on E-Learning Strategies chaired by Prof Ahmad Hashem.

16 January

Updated the Senior Vice President on the m-Learning initiative.

19 January

Presentation of Faculty SOPs.

20 January

Demonstrated the usefulness of the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen to the Senior Vice President, Deans of FBM and FITM in creating online learning objects.

22 January

Presentation to GMC on MQA’s COPIA (Code of Practice for Internal Audit). Delineating action and steps to be taken by OUM for MQA audits.

Attended meeting on the Asian Journal on Open Distance Learning chaired by Prof Rosli.

Academic Tea Talk 1/2009

2009-01-08T14:58:00.009+08:00

Richard Ng gave an interesting tea talk on Online Supplemental Learning (OSI). The presentation is based on a paper that was presented at the AAOU2008 conference held in Tianjin, China last October. The paper won a sliver award. The attendees were a mixed group: Deans, Professors and our younger academicians including a couple of instructional designers and an editor from OUM.

Interesting approach to help overcome student weakness in basic mathematics - online supplemental instruction. The OSI model of instruction would include Pre-instructional Workshop, Coaching and Mentoring, and Short Video Clips on You-Tube. The model allows for collaborative work and clearly increases synergy in the discussion forums. Selected learners become mentors and provide help and guidance to the weaker learners; not a too far-fetched concept, since we have long heard of peer-tutoring. So it was good to see how it worked successfully online. When learners help others, it helps reinforce what they know and what they have learned. Being able to get help from the mentors, i.e. coursemates, will also help reduce the anxiety level of the weaker students who normally will not ask questions or ask for help. Keep in mind though that this does not mean that the tutors will no longer be doing anything. In fact, the tutors have to play an active role in coming up with the activities or assignments suited for collaborative learning. And it is the tutor who has carefully selected the learners who have the potential to be good mentors.

The addition of short video-clips on You-Tube further helps students grasp topics that are slightly more difficult to understand just by reading. They get the benefit of seeing how problems are worked out with or without the audio, as many times as needed to understand the methods used, and they can do it at their own time.

The OSI approach seems applicable to any course offered at OUM. According to our speaker, there is still more to be done, but one of the steps to be taken next will be to educate and train the OUM tutors nationwide on using OSI in their courses.

We thank Mr. Richard Ng for taking the time to share his work with us and we commend him and his team for their achievement.

Kick-off meeting for COL Performance Indicators

2009-01-08T14:54:00.003+08:00

It was a good kick-off for OUM's continual improvement efforts. The SVP, as chairperson of the group, expressed that it was important for OUM to focus on quality in 2009.

The tools designed by COL will be one of the ways to help us achieve a certain level of standard. There are ten PIs. An 11th one on financial will be added.

Good start for quality at OUM!

IQRI Meeting 1/2009, 8 January

2009-01-08T14:50:00.003+08:00

The first staff/department meeting for the year was held in the morning....we aim to achieve much more this year to help spur quality assurance efforts at OUM. Also in the pipeline are more research projects among OUM academicians and several innovative learning projects to help make learning more effective.

We're definitely looking forward to a better year!

8th Mobile Learning Meeting

2009-01-06T16:24:00.004+08:00

The team met for the 8th time this morning.

Most exciting is knowing how close we are to getting the mobile learning resources in place. The past 6 weeks were challenging for every faculty member but deadlines are slowly out of the way and we can now re-focus on the project.

Harvinder, Ruzita and Hazna are preparing various parts of the content for the OUMH 1103 course. We're now using blogger (for a start) to post the contents unless there's a better alternative. CiDT is still preparing the graphics, before the whole file is compressed and uploaded. They said the first content is expected to be ready at the end of this week.

First semester students will receive their first SMS on the project next week. Christine's working on this.

The mobile learning portal was conceptualised before the holidays. The CiDT team will be working on this.

Almost every mobile learning research team is now on Twitter so that we keep close, quick and convenient communication in terms of updates on what everyone is doing or thinking right now with regards the project. With email you'd have to sift through all the other messages and that takes time.

Each representative from the Faculty & CGS will next be identifying their respective courses for May and September. I think once we get the hang of what works and what doesn't, the contents can be generated quite fast.

The most impressive smart pen looks very promising and we're testing it soon. We're very hopeful that this device will help further our project.

How smart can a pen be?

2009-01-05T22:46:00.003+08:00

It's been a long time since I was impressed, no . . . that's an understatement . . . . very impressed with something that looks like a normal pen and normal note book (with dotted pages) but can be, listen to this, a personal productivity tool, a learning aide, an e-learning content creator, and a personal secretary during meetings, lectures, conferences, discussions, and more.

What I saw, at this moment in time, is a tool that OUM could use to develop e-learning content. Designed to help someone write notes or draw and at the same time capture the lecturer's voice in the classroom, or if in a meeting, capture the discussions during the meeting, can actually be used to conduct a tutorial on how to solve math equations, or understand graphs, diagrams, and so on.

Notes/images and voice can be stored in the pen's memory and recalled instantaneously with great ease. This can be played back, listened with or without earphones or uploaded to the Internet and played back through audio streaming. Imagine....a whole world of possibilities!

Check it out. It's a smart pen designed to help us to never miss a word! Visit: http://www.livescribe.com/.

Or, if you prefer to listen to what the smart pen is all about, click on:
http://www.livescribe.com/media/mp3/070530/ls_chpt2_070530.mp3

Dr. Safiah will soon be able to borrow a test unit to record a "tutorial" to see how it can really help our students who are poor in Mathematics.

Christine, we owe it to you for insisting that I view the demo! You were absolutely right . . . an intelligent tool for sure.....our mobile learners will absolutely benefit.

Come back for our report on this innovative tool next week.

Conferences to aim for

2009-01-05T17:59:00.005+08:00

If you're looking for conferences on educational technology or those related to education, visit: http://elearnspace.org/media/EdTechConferencesJanToAug2009crw.doc.

The list is impressive, but by no means comprehensive. Still, a lot to choose from.

In addition, don't forget the SEAAIR 2009 conference in Penang in October. For details: www.ptpm.usm.my/seaair2009/

Hello 2009

2009-01-03T11:29:00.002+08:00

2009 will be the best year yet!

With three main activities related to quality management, research and innovation, the IQRI team is set to make a bigger difference in each of these three areas, thus contributing to overall quality improvement, increasing the number of research activities and contributing to the quality of education at OUM through learning innovations.

Visit us often. We will keep you updated on our activities. We will also be providing useful resources from time to time.