Advanced Informatics Department, Faculty Technology and Informatics Razak, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Kuala Lumpur| Data Visualization and Analytics | Operational Business Intelligence Research Group
No OBE means no accreditation by MQA. Based on Washington Accord (1989), by using OBE means the students as the product of OBE can work anyway in the country within/signed Washington Accord. Means our student capable to sell themselves internationally.
When you plan your teaching for a course, what is the first thing that you think about?
Duration/important tasks – Kokilavani
CO and previous CO.
My answer is ‘what I want my student to get?’ = outcomes
Fresh graduate students quality I am looking for.
Problem solvers
Quality of the education
Motivation – self determination.
Communicate well
Cert for skills.
Employers rating of skills/quality (2002)
Communication (verbal & written)
(2016, Jobstreet)
Command of English language
Weak of communication skills.
Honesty/integrity
Teamwork skills
Interpersonal skills
Strong work ethics
Motivation & initiatives
Flexibility/adaptability
Analytical skills
Computer skills
Organizational skills
Detail oriented
Leadership skills
Self confidence
Friendly/outgoing personality
Well mannered
Tactifulness
GPA (3.0 or better)
Creativity
Sense of humour
Entrepreneurship
From 30 years Professor’s experience
Potential students for good job. Even 3.9 CGPA Students’ – not ready for the industries. Because they are straight forward. When they come to industry which are open book, then there is no one ultimate answer. Then they don’t know what to answer. They fail.
Another story, 2.5 CGPA student is able to be with the fifth company because he always get better offer within 2 years. Because the quality of him as a human being (friendly, good communication skills, helpful).
How to improve soft skills
Doing part time job. e.g Starbucks, receptionist, janitor.
Doing part time job can increase the communication skills
Down to earth – know how to respect people, listen to people.
Experience nurture us to be more independent and appreciate value of life
More nature than
HOTS is better to be teach using natural activity instead of modules in the class.
Alhamdulillah, we have a wonderful session with Prof Madya Dr Ahmad Johari Sihes. From 215 pm to understand more about curriculum development at Dewan CTL UTM Johor Bahru.
Life Learning I learn from him today: 1. Don’t see others as unimportant’. Especially we as technology people vs social science people. I experienced these a lot of time. I took it as the different shool of thought. Hence it is not easy to change others’ mental model. So I just adjusting myself. But his advice is quite relevant – when us become the big people, don’t do these to other people.
Don’t do syok sendiri research/curiculum – make sure do some needs analysis – then our curriculum will be more relevant since it must according to the analysis findings.
Academically, herewith is the key points he shared during the course.
Lecturer has 3P for curriculum design
Perancang – merancang dan menyediakan kkurikulum
Pelaksana – melaksankan kurikulum melalui pengajaran & pembelajaran
Penilai – adakah kurikulum efektif? (pensyarah perlu nilai sendiri).
Proses Rancangan Pengajaran
Kurikulum
Silibus/maklumat kursus – gabungan ‘course outline’
Rancangan Kerja
Rancangan pengajaran
What is curriculum
Kurikulum bukan bermaksud untuk akademik sahaja tetapi meliputi design secara keseluruhan dengan tujuan utama untuk membangunkan modal insan. Design for Curriculum akademik adalah menyeluruh, berkos tinggi dan hidden curriculum sangat penting untuk membentuk spiritual modal insan yang lebih baik. Curriculum is not only in the classroom but overview the learning process in IPTA
Definisi kurikulum
Currere (history from Latin word)
a race course atau satu litar perlumbaaan.
Untuk menamatkan satu litar perlumbaan, perlu ada banyak strategi untuk menang dalam satu perlumbaan.
Satu rancangan pengajian
‘a plan of learning’ atau satu rancangan pembelajaran.
Satu rancangan pendidikan yang dibentuk untuk suatu kumpulan pelajar bagi mencapai matlamat yang telah ditentukan.
For UTM, kurikulum dirancang di setiap jabatan atau fakulti berdasarkan 1) falsafah dan matlamat Pendidikan negara di samping mengambilkira 2) falsafah, 3) visi 4) misi dan 5) matlamat IPT dan 6) fakulti berkenaan melalui program-program yang ditawarkan.
Falsafah Pendidikan Negara (bermula tahun 1987)
Pendidikan adalah satu usaha berterusan(continuity dan perlu sentiasa tambah baik) kearah memperkembangkan lagi potensi individu (walaupun dia OKU) secara menyeluruhan dan bersepadu untuk mewujudkan insan yang seimbang dan harmonis dari segi intelek, rohani, emosi dan jasmani (JERI) berdasarkan kepercayaan dan kepatuhan kepada tuhan.
Falsafah UTM
Hukum Allah adalah dasar kepada sains dan teknologi. Maka Universiti Teknologi Malaysia berusaha secara menyeuruh dan bersepadu memberkembangkan kecemerlangan sains dan teknologi untuk kesejahteraan dan kemakmuran sejagat sesuai dengan kehendaknya.
Visi UTM:
Diiktifat sebagai pusat kecermerlangan akademik dan teknologi bertaraf dunia (for 2017 they want to be top 50 with differentiation in kejuruteraan & technology)
PPPM(PT )
Enhance quality education
Promote excellence in research, innovation and graduate education
Enhance professional training and lifelong learning – article review, pergi library, buat video, gambar (gambar dan video yang lebih konkrit) masa discussion/pergi library)
Enhance international standing Strengthen community outreach
Provide quality management and effective risk management in Malaysia Education Blueprint (ada 10 shift)
Kurikulum mesti mengandungi elements tersebut:
Rancangan pendidikan
Mengandungi matlamat dan objektif.
Menyenaraikan kandungan, topik atau pengalaman pembelajaran
Menentukan kaedah dan aktiviti.
Menetapkan kaedah dan instrument yang perlu untuk menilai pencapaian matlamat dan objektif.
Community is a group of people living in the same palce or having a particular characteristic in common. E.g. Muslim community, Malaysia community, Putrajaya community. Then a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals is essential to tie them up.
For muslim, there are four fundamental elements to develop solid community:
1. Healthy relationship with AlQuran – Understand in deep and meaningful way. Deeper and evolving over the time. Halaqah of Al Quran means community exercise to understand Al Quran comprehensively.
2. Engage in our solat – Have heart and concious in our solat. It is the real way to remember Allah is through practicing quran in solat.
3. Solat Jumaat – Muslim convention every week without marketing. Khutbah jumaat is the opportunity to connect them back to Al Quran. Then please talk productive things – something related, practical and can help the individual and community in their life.
4. Study of Sirah – Muslim cannot really feel islam without understand their struggle – e.g Nation teach history. This is the way to give them the national/islam identity.
Barakah is a word from Tabarakah. Direct english translation -blessing has limited meaning. Here, we try to understand the deeper and beautiful meaning of barakah from arab definitions. Nouman Ali Khan helps us a lot on these.
Basically, arab linguists breakdown the barakah into three main parts:
Growth and increases above and beyond expectations – it is like you plant a tree and then you get the forest.
Something keeps coming continuously – it is like the rain keeps coming.
remains in its place – stay and stable – it is like a camel kneels and sunk in the sand.
So part of what Barakah means is that logic says when you plant one seed in the ground, you expect one tree to come out of it; but in return, you get ten trees! Or after 10 years you come back and you get a forest in return!
That is barakah.
I hope one day the book we (UKM alumni) readers will say this “I remember I read only this book to start my phd journey, today that book still remains in my heart and I do realize what it saying one by one”.
That is barakah.
You may hear some people say “in my first year, I struggled to find one student to come to my classes, but today my school has grown so much that I have to turn away students because I don’t have capacity even though I have expanded three times already!”
That is barakah.
Finally, when Barakah from Allah comes, know that there is no end to Allah’s Barakah.
The concept of Overview and Details has been long introduced by Schneiderman 30 years back through visualization mantra. At that time I am form five at Sekolah Menengah Sains Muar 🙂
“Overview First, Zoom and Filter, then Details on demand”
Then after 30 years, we found the overview concept has been taken as the big picture. But the function for overview to cover the big picture concept is still inadequate. That’s why we need to extend the overview – by relating to its details and more importantly emphasized the interconnectedness between these elements.
To custom current BI tools, we tried to apply these concept by proposing the design below:
By proposing this layout, we intend to facilitate the challenge 1 that we shared from previous posting.
Barakallah. Saya telah diberi penghormatan oleh Institut Visual Informatik UKM bagi menyampaikan ucapan wakil pelajar semasa hari pemakaian jubah tempohari.
Walaupun durasi ucapan hanyalah sekitar 3 minit tetapi saya mengambil masa yang panjang – 3 hari untuk merangka teks ucapan. Itu juga atas Allah yang mampu mengilhamkan kata-kata dari hati untuk menyentuh hati yang lain. Namun ada 3 elemen persuasive yang boleh saya kongsikan menerusi penghasilan teks ucapan ini. Ketiga-tiga elemen itu saya tandakan dengan (1), (2) dan (3) dalam teks di bawah:
Sidang dewan, para pensyarah, supervisor, Ibu bapa, pasangan, sahabat handai, keluarga, Warga IVI dan FTSM yang dirahmati sekalian,
Syukur alhamdulillah kerana akhirnya kita sampai ke destinasi ini. Setelah mungkin hampir 2,3,4,5 mahupun 6 tahun bergelut dalam dunia keilmuan ini. Dan saya percaya dalam tempoh tersebut, kita berkongsi cabaran jatuh bangun yang hampir sama sehinggalah kita sampai pada hari ini. Hari kita diraikan.
Ini kerana Hamka (1) berkata, (2) repeatition x1 Dalam mengejar hari ini, kita belajar supaya jangan takut jatuh,
kerana hanya yang tidak pernah memanjat sahaja yang tidak pernah jatuh”
Dalam mengejar hari ini juga, Hamka (1) berkata, (2) repeatition x2 kita belajar supaya jangan takut gagal,
kerana yang tidak pernah gagal hanyalah orang-orang yang tidak pernah melangkah”
Dalam mengejar hari ini juga, Hamka (1) berkata lagi, (2) repeatition x3 kita belajar supaya Jangan takut salah, kerana dengan kesalahan yang pertama, kita dapat menambah pengetahuan untuk mencari jalan yang benar pada langkah yang kedua”
Dan dalam proses kami belajar itu, (3) Ada supervisor dan pensyarah yang tidak jemu menyuluh jalan Ada ibu bapa dan keluarga yang saban waktu mendoakan Ada pasangan yang berkorban untuk memenuhi segenap keperluan Ada sahabat handai yang berkongsi suka duka kehidupan dan warga IVI dan FTSM yang banyak menghulur bantuan Justeru, di kesempatan ini, saya mewakili sahabat-sahabat lain yang diraikan ingin merakamkan ribuan penghargaan dan terima kasih atas jasa dan budi kalian. Sehingga kami mampu berdiri di pentas ini, menyarung jubah dan memakai topi ini.
Hanya Allah yang dapat membalas segala kebaikan kalian. Kami juga berdoa agar institusi dan fakulti ini terus maju jaya, melahirkan ilmuwan terbilang yang menjadi sumber kepada kemajuan yang bermanfaat. Sekali lagi kami mengharapkan doa dan restu, supaya ilmu yang ditimba ini berkat dan mampu menebar kebaikan dunia akhirat.
Akhir kalam, saya akhiri ucapan ini dengan serangkap pantun,
Selaut kasturi, Segunung emas kalungan budi setinggi pohon Jasamu tuan puan tidak terbalas sebagai hutang seribu tahun.
Deskripsi elemen-elemen persuasive itu adalah seperti berikut:
(1). Pinjam reputasi orang lain – memetik ucapan daripada Prof Hamkaselaku bapa keilmuan untuk bercakap dengan golongan berilmu malah ibu bapa seantero nusantara yang tidak punya PhD pun pasti mengenali beliau.
(2) Repeatition – Ini ialah konsep storytelling. Pengulangan fakta/plot yang sama melalui perspektif yang berbeza membolehkan pendengar dapat menghadam isi yang hendak disampaikan dengan lebih kemas dan mendalam.
(3). Refleksi situasi yang paling terkesan – durasi dan proses pembelajaran adalah elemen yang paling hampir pada hati semua yang menjalani phd – maka elemen itu yang disentuh.
Perbezaan pekerjaan bukanlah pangkat tetapi pembahagian kewajipan. Menurut darjat, kecerdasan otak serta pendidikan dan nasib masing -masing (Hamka, 1941)
Diantara buku yang mempengaruhi pemikiran saya ketika ini. Lembaga Hidup – Adat diisi, lembaga dituang.