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Kurikulum Abad ke 21
Kursus SBEG3163 – System Analysis and Design dan SBEG3583 – GIS Software System akan menggunapakai kaedah Blended Learning/Active Learning sejajar dengan penilaian, pengajaran dan pembelajaran pada Kurikulum Abad ke 21 untuk Program Sarjana Muda Sains Geoinformatik Dengan Kepujian.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
In today’s socially conscious environment, employees and customers place a premium on working for and spending their money with businesses that prioritize corporate social responsibility (CSR).
CSR is an evolving business practice that incorporates sustainable development into a company’s business model. It has a positive impact on social, economic and environmental factors.
As the use of corporate responsibility expands, it is becoming extremely important to have a socially conscious image. Consumers, employees and stakeholders are beginning to prioritize CSR when choosing a brand or company. They are holding corporations accountable for effecting social change with their business beliefs, practices and profits.
Recognizing how important socially responsible efforts are to their customers, employees and stakeholders, many companies now focus on a few broad CSR categories:
- Environmental efforts: One primary focus of corporate social responsibility is the environment. Businesses, regardless of size, have large carbon footprints. Any steps they can take to reduce those footprints are considered good for both the company and society.
- Philanthropy: Businesses can practice social responsibility by donating money, products or services to social causes and nonprofits. Larger companies tend to have a lot of resources that can benefit charities and local community programs. It is best to consult with these organizations about their specific needs before donating.
- Ethical labour practices: By treating employees fairly and ethically, companies can demonstrate their social responsibility. This is especially true of businesses that operate in international locations with labour laws that differ from those in the United States.
- Volunteering: Attending volunteer events says a lot about a company’s sincerity. By doing good deeds without expecting anything in return, companies can express their concern for specific issues and commitment to certain organizations.
Main Source: https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4679-corporate-social-responsibility.html
Generic Skills and UTM’s Graduate Attributes
INTRODUCTION
In line with UTM’s vision and mission statements, the University is committed to graduating competent, creative and versatile professionals who are guided by high moral and ethical values in the service of God and mankind. This will require graduates with sound disciplinary and professional knowledge, high self-esteem and effective skills in communication, team working, problem-solving and lifelong learning.
The University has therefore identified a range of attributes and generic skills which will enable our graduates to function effectively in a wide range of social and professional contexts. The development of these attributes will be embedded within the contexts of the students’ discipline or professional field.
WHAT ARE GENERIC SKILLS?
Generic skills are the general skills, qualities, knowledge, abilities and traits that a person should possess to succeed in one’s studies and career. Such skills enable a person to function and contribute effectively in solving problems, communicating effectively, thinking critically and creatively, and acting as effective team members at work. Generic skills are also known in other foreign universities as ‘core skills’, ‘essential skills’ ‘employability skills’, ‘transferable skills’ and ‘trans-disciplinary’. Such skills once acquired, are transferable to other areas of one’s social, academic and professional life
Rapid changes since the early 1980s, especially in technology, manufacturing and marketing, ICT and worker mobility have resulted in an increasingly competitive borderless world. The industry, however, does not have the luxury of time to train or retrain graduates. What is needed now is a dynamic and versatile pool of human resources from universities capable of fitting in quickly to meet the challenges and demands of the workplace. Graduates must be knowledgeable and technically competent with the right attitude, traits and skills. Thus, they need value-added generic skills that go beyond disciplinary knowledge. Specifically, generic skills are needed for the following reasons:
- The need to remain competitive
- The need to acquire new knowledge in a knowledge-based world
- The need to socialise and interact in an interdependent world
- The demands of the workplace
The growing emphasis on the need for generic skills among graduates is partly a result of feedback from employers in the industry. Among the skills highly valued by employers are:
- communication skills
- honesty/integrity/ ethics
- teamwork skills
- interpersonal skills
- motivation/initiative/enthusiasm
- capacity for critical and independent thinking
- flexibility and adaptability
- personal presentation and self-confidence
- professionalism
- problem solving and creativity
- ICT skill
HOW ARE GENERIC SKILLS DEVELOPED IN UTM?
In UTM, generic skills will be developed through various in-class learning activities such as class discussions, group work, brainstorming sessions, presentation, role-playing and apprenticeships. There will also be out-of-class activities such as project assignments, independent studies, field trips, site visits, community placements and industrial attachments. In addition to academic activities, campus and co-curriculum activities will also be organised to help students develop generic skills.
HOW CAN YOU CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR GENERIC SKILLS
Generic skills cannot be developed overnight. You can enrich your generic skills by participating proactively in and out of classrooms, in co-curricular activities and through various informal contacts. You have to continuously seek opportunities to improve yourself through your daily activities and interaction with others.
UTM GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES
To ensure that generic skills are systematically developed in UTM, the university has identified the following seven (7) Graduate Attributes and their respective
Generic Skills:
- Communication Skills
- Thinking Skills
- Scholarship
- Leadership and Teamworking Skills
- Adaptability
- Global Citizen
- Enterprising Skills
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Very special instructions in the exam room for Geospatialist
- You are trained to be a Geospatialist and not a story writer, answer point to point.
- If you have missed my classes and have not prepared, don’t waste your time, instead, pray to God.
- Do not unnecessarily smile at the person sitting next to you, they may also not know the answer, moreover, exam hall is not the right place for networking.
- Do not get nervous if your friend is taking more sheets, they may be just showing off to make you nervous.
- It’s good to have a lot of beautiful options in life but all questions are compulsory here.
Future trends in geospatial information management: the five to ten year vision
Revised draft based on feedback provided following the Second Session of the UN-GGIM Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management
January 2013
The use of geospatial information is increasing rapidly. There is a growing recognition amongst both governments and the private sector that an understanding of location and place is a vital component of effective decision-making. Citizens with no recognised expertise in geospatial information, and who are unlikely to even be familiar with the term, are also increasingly using and interacting with geospatial information; indeed in some cases, they are contributing to its collection – often in an involuntary way.
A number of important technology-driven trends are likely to have a major impact in the coming years, creating previously unimaginable amounts of location-referenced information and questioning our very understanding of what constitutes geospatial information. These developments offer significant opportunities but also present challenges, both in terms of policy and in terms of the law. Meeting these challenges and ensuring that the potential benefits can be realised by all countries will be important in ensuring that the full value of geospatial information can be maximised in the coming five to ten years.
It is recognised that different countries are at very different stages in terms of the development, sophistication and use of their geospatial information infrastructures. There is a risk, inevitably, that not all countries will be in a position to invest in and realise the full potential of geospatial information, for governments, businesses and citizens. International institutions such as the UN have an increasingly important role in helping to minimise this risk, communicating the value and importance of investing in and developing a solid geospatial information base and reducing the prospect of any ‘digital divide’ emerging.
Ensuring that the full value of geospatial information is realised in the coming years will also rely on having the necessary training mechanisms in place. New and changing skills will be required to manage the increasing amount of geospatial information that is likely to be created and to ensure that the maximum value is secured from it.
The number of actors involved in generating, managing and providing geospatial information has increased significantly in the last ten years, and this proliferation will continue and indeed will likely accelerate in the coming five to ten years. The private sector and the public will continue to play a significant role in providing the technologies and information required to maximise the opportunities available. They are likely to provide valuable, and in many cases unique, elements of geospatial information and the technologies and services required to maximise it, in addition to offering a growing understanding of the end-user base for geospatial information.
Governments will continue to have a key role in the provision of geospatial information and be substantial users of geospatial data; however, governments’ role in geospatial information management may well change in the coming five to ten years. Nevertheless, it will continue to be vital. Building bridges between organisations, collaborating with other areas of the geospatial information community and, most importantly, providing complete geospatial frameworks with trusted, authoritative and maintained geospatial information, will be crucial to ensuring that users have access to reliable and trusted geospatial information and have confidence when using it. This information is vital to inform decision-making, from long-term planning to emergency response, and to ensure that the potential benefits of a fully spatially-enabled society are realised
As with all technology-driven sectors, the future is difficult to predict. However, this paper takes the views of a recognised group of experts from a wide range of fields related to the geospatial world, together with valuable contributions from the National Mapping and Cadastral Authorities (NMCAs) and attempts to offer some vision of how this is likely to develop over the next five to ten years. Based on contributions received, trends have been broken down into broad themes covering major aspects of the geospatial world. They are as follows: technology trends, including the future direction of data creation, maintenance and management; legal and policy developments; skills requirements and training mechanisms; the role of the private and volunteered geographic information sectors; and the future role of governments in geospatial data provision and management.
Garis Panduan Penilaian Kualiti Data Geospatial
Oleh Jawatankuasa Teknikal Standard MyGDI (JTSM) 2010
Garis panduan ini disediakan bagi tujuan penilaian kualiti sesuatu data geospatial oleh pembekal data. Ia merupakan satu prosedur yang jelas dan konsisten bagi membolehkan pembekal data menyatakan sejauh mana produk mereka memenuhi kriteria spesifikasi produk yang ditetapkan. Ini membolehkan pengguna data menilai data tersebut sama ada memenuhi keperluan mereka atau sebaliknya.
Spesifikasi produk adalah kriteria yang penting dalam menjalankan penilaian kualiti data geospatial. Bagi maksud garis panduan ini, spesifikasi produk merupakan penerangan teknikal yang jelas dan tepat mengenai sifat-sifat sesuatu produk data geospatial serta boleh digunakan dalam pelbagai keadaan dan kegunaan oleh pihak-pihak yang berkenaan.
Walau bagaimanapun, bagi sesuatu produk data geospatial yang belum mempunyai spesifikasi produk, garis panduan ini masih boleh digunakan untuk menilai kualiti data geospatial tersebut. Sehubungan dengan ini, peraturan-peraturan berkaitan kualiti data sedia ada boleh digunakan untuk menyemak tahap pematuhan kualiti data tersebut.
Geoinformatics Education and Training at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
By Mohamad Nor Said Mohamad and Ghazali Hashim, Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (2013)
Human resource development is a part of the major components that constitute a successful implementation of Geographical Information System (GIS). Technical knowledge and skill is always required in ensuring a GIS is applied effectively, no matter for what purpose. Hence, a properly designed curriculum at various levels of teaching and learning of the subjects related to the discipline is very important. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) has taken a lead in this very demanding field by offering a bachelor degree program in Geoinformatics since 1994. The curriculum was initially designed by referring to various academic development and GIS applications and implementation throughout the world. It is further improved from time to time to suit and fit the local requirements both by the industries and the government authorities such as Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE), Malaysian Qualification Agency (MQA). Having a current number of about 500 graduates, the GIS industries seem to grow significantly and thus help the government speeding up various development projects with the use of GIS. At a higher level, UTM also offers postgraduate programmes mainly to carry out researches related to various issues related to GIS implementation and developments. With the establishment of Malaysian Centre for Geospatial Data Infrastructure (MaCGDI), UTM plays greater roles in collaborating with this agency in providing professional training as well as contributing expertise towards helping the development of Malaysian Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). This paper reports on various academic and research activities as well as professional training conducted by UTM.
Location-Based Service (LBS)
A Location-Based Service (LBS) is usually a service running on a mobile device that provides facts or recreational information. It employs geolocation to make the facts or entertainment more personal to the user of the application. An example of a typical LBS is one that identifies the location of a device and then discovers the location of restaurants in the immediate vicinity of that location. As LBS become more common, their commercial value will become more readily evident to corporations, who can use them to personalize users’ experiences with location-aware weather, coupons, and advertising. This is already becoming more common, and will only continue to grow in the future.
An LBS begins by gathering a location for the device using one of its available methods, which could be through GPS, the GSM/CDMA Cell ID, or its IP Address, for example. Once it has a location in latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates, it can then retrieve whatever additional information it is programmed to receive. This information is then presented to the user, most likely to be interacted with in some fashion.
Some popular examples of LBS are:
- Turn-by-turn navigation to an inputted address
- Notifications regarding traffic congestion or accidents
- Location of nearby businesses, restaurants, or other services
- Social interaction with other people nearby
- Safety applications for tracking members of a family
This list could go on and on, as there are countless things to be done with LBS today. LBS is a large part of geolocation today, but they are not the only services that use geolocation for their functionality.
Source: Holdener (2011). HTML5 Geolocation. O’Reilly Media, Inc.
API (Application Programming Interface)
“What’s an API?” When a new programmer asks this question, they typically get the answer, “an application programming interface.”
But APIs are so much more than their name suggests—and to understand and unleash their value, we must focus on the keyword interface.
An API is the interface that a software program presents to other programs, to humans, and, in the case of web APIs, to the world via the internet. An API’s design belies much about the program behind it—business model, product features, the occasional bug. Although APIs are designed to work with other programs, they’re mostly intended to be understood and used by humans writing those other programs.
APIs are the building blocks that allow interoperability for major business platforms on the web. APIs are how identity is created and maintained across cloud software accounts, from your corporate email address to your collaborative design software to the web applications that help you order pizza delivery. APIs are how weather forecast data is shared from a reputable source like the National Weather Service to hundreds of software apps that specialize in its presentation. APIs process your credit cards and enable companies to seamlessly collect your money without worrying about the minutiae of financial technology and its corresponding laws and regulations.
Source: Jin, Sahni and Shevat (2018). Designing Web APIs. O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Definition of GIS
GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems, but the “S” is increasingly being used to stand for science and studies as well. Geographic Information Science, and Geographic Information Studies are used increasingly. No universally agreed-upon definition has been put forth. Surprisingly, a number of GIS texts do not even attempt to define the term.
Traditionally, GIS is a computer-based system for collecting, managing, analyzing, modeling, and presenting geographic data for a wide range of applications.
Geographic Information Science, then, is the discipline that studies and uses a GIS as a tool. GIS is not simply creating maps with a computer. The technology is a very powerful tool for analyzing spatial data; while maps can be and are produced with GIS, their main power is analytical.
GI scientists do not consider themselves primarily as mapmakers. Although they may produce maps as an end product, their primary emphasis is on analysis of the data. In fact, it is comparatively recently that GI systems people have given much thought to presentation of data.
Edited from: Tyner, J. (2010). Principles of Map Design. The Guilford Press.
Cartography
Cartography has been defined by the International Cartographic Association as “the art, science and technology of making maps, together with their study as scientific documents and works of art.” It has also been defined as “the production—including design, compilation, construction, projection, reproduction, use, and distribution—of maps” (Thrower, 2008, p. 250)
The term geographic cartography is frequently used to distinguish the kinds of maps that geographers use in world and regional studies to distinguish it from engineering cartography, which is used for the type of maps that city engineers create for water lines, sewer lines, gas lines, and the like that would be used in planning and engineering. Many of the principles apply to both; the difference is one of scale.
Source: Tyner, J. (2010). Principles of Map Design. The Guilford Press.
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