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Monday, October 13, 2014

World Ranking

There is only four Malaysian Universities that had submitted the worlds ranking for 2014/2015. However the the better universities, UM and UKM had not submitted. Thus none of the Malaysian universities are ranked to even the top 400 universities in the world. UM VC said that the reasons were: 1. UM has not completed building up the publication lists. 2. It has poor financial standing. The main issues are, Malaysian Universities score very low scores in the reputation and citations. These two criteria are heavily weighted. The new ranking was...

Online Learning through MOOCs

The Malaysian Government has taken the initiative to launch MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses for Public Universities. The MOOCs is being used by universities worldwide, but only in Malaysia that the implementation was started by the government. The objectives of implementing MOOCs by the government are: 1. To transform learning and teaching method in the IPTA, 2.  To improve the quality and standard. 3. To support life long learning 4. To reach to the massive population To get it started, four IPTA..., UPM, UKM, UiTM and UniMAS...