UTM Grand Challenges 2019 (UTMGC 2019)

Office of Undergraduate Studies once again will be conducting UTM Grand Challenges 2019 (UTMGC 2019) starting from 15 September to 15 December 2019. It is our great pleasure to invite submission of proposal from Team Leader among academic staff. The best 10 proposals will be selected to receive a maximum of RM4000.00 research grant to conduct their UTMGC 2019 project. 
The criteria of UTMGC 2019:
  1. Project must involve a minimum of 20 multidisciplinary UNDERGRADUATE students as team members (Eg. 15 SKM, 5 SKE, 2 SK and 2 AHIBS).
  2. Collaboration of facilitator, academic and/or non-academic UTM staff, from different school/faculty (team leader must be an academic staff)
  3. Project must have research element and conducted within 15 September – 15 December 2019 (3 months)
  4. Final project report must be submitted to UGS Office by 22 December 2019
    5. Every project must be presented in UTM iLeague Exhibition in December 2019.
  5. Every project must follow UTM Grand Challenges theme (either engineering or non-engineering) –  please refer to list of theme as attached below
  6. Grand Challenges for Engineering Theme
Template of proposal is as attached in this email. All completed proposal must be submitted through the following link:
Deadline for proposal submission is 10 September 2019.

An example of learning management system for e-content: Flipgrid

I was searching for more examples of learning management system.  When I googled the meaning of learning management system, a good example of learning management system is our UTM elearning.  So, using Prezi is not enough to be considered as learning management system because there is no online interaction.  Prezi, Padlet, Trello and such could be categorised as collaborative tools.  

BUT, Flipgrid is different.  You can upload your note, link Youtube videos and such and ask students to discuss about a topic.  I am still a novice in using Flipgrid (I just found out about this today).  But, if you want to have a look an example of my activity (a trial and with no students, I could not show any interaction yet).  For Flipgrid, your students can provide a short video clip of their responses.  So, if you have very busy students who always on a go, they can stay engage outside classroom with you through Flipgrid.  

Unlike Prezi, Flipgrid is FOC (Free of Charge) [Note: It might change in the future though].  

P.S: Psssttt… Flipgrid is an example of e content [Learning Management System]  😀

 

Penulisan dan Penerbitan Jurnal Berindeks: Pendekatan dan strategi yang efektif

Both speakers some tips on publishing at international journals.  One of the tips is do research that you are passionate about.

Prof Yeo Kee Jiar presented a token of appreciation to Dr Tole Sutikno
Prof Yeo Kee Jiar and Dr Lina Hanayani with a token of appreciation from School of Education
Dr Husna was giving a short and sweet welcoming speech before the session began.