Eye on Learning

The Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) is inviting applications for the 2008 National Academic Award in six categories as listed below (for details see http://www.mohe.gov.my/aan2008/konsep.htm): Anugerah Tokoh Akademik Negara Anugerah Penerbitan Makalah Jurnal Anugerah Penerbitan Buku Anugerah Inovasi dan Pengkomersialan Produk Anugerah Seni dan Kreativiti Anugerah Pengajaran A briefing to public and private universities was held at PICC on 16 March 2009. Deadline for applications to reach MOHE is 4 May 2009.

Educators are forever inundated with change. As we often hear, "change is constant." Change is part and parcel of today's life, thus the importance of change management, paradigm shift, managing change because being able to change is changing for the better and so on. Education today is also no longer what we knew it as. Fundamentally, it is the same. It is about learning and learning is about content, interaction and assessment. However, content may no longer need to come from the teacher alone. The teacher, has truly, I think needs to become more and more a facilitator of learning, more so today than before. I remember the first time I heard the word facilitator (in the context of learning) was in 1985 when I was about to leave for the US for my university studies. I was to become a "facilitator" at the end of my studies in MRSM or Maktab Rendah Sains Mara (Mara junior science colleges - secondary schools with an emphasis on producing brilliant science...

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