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A comparative study on learner's performance in the selected special undergraduate business programme of Open University Malaysia
Get PDFThe main challenge in Open Distance Learning (ODL) environment today is providing education to as many people as possible. Besides open market, Open University Malaysia (OUM) has introduced special market in living up to the life-long learning principles with its flexibility and self-managed learning. As its motto states, OUM is a ‘University for All: Opening Minds, Transforming Lives’, special market has the potential to add value of learning environment in open and distance learning. Programmes in the special market are designed in consultation with the sponsors of specific groups or organisations and may be delivered varies in length as needed. Army College (KTD) has enrolled at the special programme of Diploma in Management with OUM. This is a comparative study on KTD learners using two different batches between intakes of December 2007 and December 2008. The primary purposes of this study are: 1) to compare the learner’s performance between two different batches of KTD; and 2) to determine the impact of conducting different approach in teaching and learning system. The different approach of teaching and learning system is focused on daily learning hours, assessment format and the numbers of learner’s intake. Information or inputs for this study are gathered directly from final results from the learners. Observations on the learner’s results above are collected and analysed from two different batches based on different level of performance with high, medium and low. The outcome of this study will be useful to measure learner’s performance after changes in the approach of teaching and learning system. The final result of this study will be able to show the different approaches in influencing learner’s performance. Furthermore, recommendations will be proposed and suggested in hope for the business programme in special market to be further enhanced. It is also hoped that this study should inspire other researcher to explore the new approach of teaching and learning in ODL special market environment. (Authors' abstract
Preparing Future-ready Learners: 21st Century Skills in an Open and Distance Learning Education in Malaysia
Get PDFThe 21st century requires a dynamic, flexible and highly skilled workforce to ensure that the sustainability of economic growth remains viable in a period of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Furthermore, digitalization which is a driving force for economic growth in the 21st century has also changed the way of practice in every aspect of life and its rising significance could not be taken lightly. Education is no exception and has undergone significant changes over the years, such as the introduction of online learning compared to brick-and-mortar education, and the emergence and adoption of new technologies. Graduates produced by the education system must be globally competent and competitive for the 21st century. A transformative educational approach is needed to nurture an adaptive, inquisitive person with strong skills and values to meet the demands of the 21st century and beyond. It is vital to be future-ready in education moving away from the conventional teaching method. This paper aims to study the significance of 21st century skills in preparing future-ready learners in an open and distance learning (ODL) institution in Malaysia. The results of this paper could provide insights to the various stakeholders to formulate appropriate teaching and learning processes, to develop and nurture 21st century skills among graduates in ODL institutions while sustaining the economic growth in Malaysia
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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