Electronic learning, known as E-Learning is a term for all types of technology-enhanced learning , where technology is used to support the learning process. Often the medium of instruction is through computer technology, particularly involving digital technologies. It does not require any face-to-face interaction throughout the learning process. It has been implemented by several colleges and universities in Malaysia, such as Open University Malaysia, Multimedia University, University Tun Abdul Razak and so on.
There are ample of PROS can be derived from e-learning:
1) Ease of Accessibility
E-learning has shown its great advantages through its accessibility to all students irrespective
of their residence. It help students to communicate with their lecturers and tutors, get clarifications regarding their subjects and study and access teaching materials through Internet. What you need is just have a computer and a line connectivity.
2) Flexibility
Another advantage of e-learning is its time flexibility. Students may be able to get online resources and communicate with his lecturers, tutors or classmates at anytime, anywhere, even during midnight as the resources can be access for 24*7*365. Despite, students can arrange their timetable according to their own time when he or she is available.
3) Low Cost
E-learning has been becoming more and more popular among students because they can afford getting higher education degrees at respectable universities and colleges by saving extra expenses for traveling, accommodation, food and high fees for tutors. E-learning can offer such students much easier and affordable way to get a good education and a prestige higher degree.
However, there are several CONS in implementing e-learning too:
1) Lack of Communication
Lack of face-to-face communication with lecturers and tutors leads to a lack of understanding between a student and a tutor. While a tutor cannot easily feel a student’s demands, interests and motivations, a student can simply be lazy being non-motivated enough and having free time schedule for his e-learning. This may result a low scope of the student’s knowledge and the teacher’s accusation in lack of proficiency.
2) Language Barriers
The extensive use of English in e-learning contents is also one of the factors that has hindered the success of e-learning. this is obviously occur in Malaysian universities, especially to the student who is weak in English, they need to refer to a dictionary whenever they are learning. This may cause the student to loss interest in studying and become lazy and unmotivated.
3) Bandwidth Issue and Connectivity
E-learning requires a rich combination of multimedia components.However, due to bandwidth and connectivity limitations, downloading of the e-content to the students will be slow. This creates frustration and boredom among students and affects the ease of learning. This issue happens in most of the Malaysian universities regularly.
Related links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_learning
http://asiapacific-odl2.oum.edu.my/C33/F80.pdf
http://writingandsnacks.blogspot.com/2006/08/pros-and-cons-of-e-learning.html
Prepared by Chong Hui Qi'
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Catalog
This the catalog site, it provides the thumbnail photos which the small photo that can be enlarged by clicking on the photo. It also provides the product price below the product features.
Download Speech
The download speech of the website is consider fast and the animation icon is not too much. Therefore it do not required a longer time to run the page.
Site design
"Simple and nice" can be used to describe in this website designation. As i love this concept a lot. In addition, Some of the features are created by flash player and make it more attracting.
The layout is smooth and tidy, the arrangement is follow sequent and in categories. So the users will easily get what they need and it is nice to view. There is one thing that i am very interesting which is the icon on the heading bar. It is aesthetic and easy be recognized , people will easily get the meaning from that icon.
Search engine can access a database of the Internet resources, search for specific information or keywords, and report the results. While search engine is available in this website and users search by keywords or by code.
Shopping cart
It is an order-processing technology that allows customers to accumulate items they wish to buy while they continue to shop. Shopping also available in this website where it shows as below.
Cash Out Features
This site provided information of payment option such as payment by credit card for Master Card and Visa, direct Bank-In, payment by mail (cheque, bank draft, money order) or third party fund transfer (Maybank2u.com).
Security
The company provides the buyer with information as to how the buyer's information is secured and how it will be used in the future. The information of protecting customers privacy is available in this website. Moreover, customers can access to their human contact by telephone and street address.
Navigation Bar
The navigation bar is on the top of the page and it has attached with some pictures with the bar to make it more interesting.
As a consequences, i have a nice journey to exploit this website and it had gained me more knowledge of transactional e-commerce site by study on it.
Prepared by Wong Chuan Chi
Various countries including Malaysia are implementing electronic government which also known as 'e-government'. The initiation of e-government was initiated by the introduction of Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) in 1996. Using e-government, it will improve the accessibility and quality of interactions with citizens and businesses. Simultaneously, information flow and processed improved the quality of policy development and as well the coordination and enforcement.7 main projects which is the core of E-government applications:
Under these seven pilot projects, it is divided into three categories:
i) Government to Citizens
ii) Government to Businesses
iii) Government to Government
Government to Citizens (G2C)
1) Electronic Services Delivery (eServices)
Now everyone can conduct transactions without going through queuing, traffic jams or any bureaucratic hassles as they can conduct transactions at their own wish and convenience through various convenient channels such as eServices kiosk and Internet. Examples of e-services includes Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) and Telekom Nasional Berhad (TM).
2) Electronic Labor Exchange (ELX)
ELX is a one stop-centre for labor market information that supervised by Ministry of Human Resource (MORH) that enables employer and job seekers to communicate at the same platform with the objectives of:
- Enabled an effective and integrated job matching process
- Provide an effective center of labor market information and references
- To improve mobilization of the nation's human resources and to ensure the manpower utilization is optimized.
3) E-SyariahThis is the seventh project under e-government. A case management system that integrates the processes related to management of cases for the Syariah Courts. And, the objectives are:
- To improve the quality of services of Syariah Courts
- To improve the effectiveness of JKSM (Jabatan Kehakiman Syariah Malaysia) in coordinating jurisdiction and supervising related agencies under its
- To upload the splendors of Islam through the use of ICT (Information Communication Technology)
Government to Businesses (G2B)
1) E-procurement
E-procurement system enables suppliers to sell goods and services to the Government through Internet. Suppliers advertise their pricing, process orders and deliveries. The objectives includes:
- Enables accountability and transparency
- Creates more skilled and knowledgeable workforce
- Equips the workforce with the latest technology at minimum cost
2) Generic Office Environment (GOE)
A fully customized web-based with powerful document and office management solution that enables users to effectively and efficiently manage their office environment with the objectives of:
- Efficient preparation and storage documents
- Fast search and retrieval of documents
- Effective and productive collaboration and sharing of information
- Secure and traceable access to documents
Government to Government (G2G)
1) Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS)
HRMIS is integrated for the Malaysian Public Service , incorporating Global Best Practices in HR that allows Public service successfully deal with with the challenges of the K-Economy. The objectives are:
- Effective Staffing and right-sizing of civil service
- Improve paperless HRM capabilities
- Open and flexible system
- Automated human resource managerial and operational processes
2) Project Monitoring System (PMS)
Online system that monitors the entire lifecycle of national programs. The objectives includes:
- To support and monitor entire lifecycle of Malaysia's 5-year development program
- To have quality projects
- To provide a platform for exchanging ideas and demonstrating best practices models in project implementation
Citizen's adoption strategies
Government should increase the awareness and gain as much attention as possible from the citizens for the services provided in e-government. A higher level of customer satisfaction will increase the rate of e-government adoption which moving the same way with the government. Satisfaction can obtained by providing a better protected privacy and confidentiality of the user's information.
Other than that, to retain a long-term users to use e-government frequently, service quality should be competitive with the other developed country in terms of speed, problem serving approach and ease of use of the website.
Lastly, e-government must be advertised through suitable medium such as radio or television. workshop can be held to create awareness on the existence of e-government as this services provides problem solving as they are all full-focus in providing the best services to its citizens.
More information:
1) http://www.intanbk.intan.my/psimr/articles/Article1%20-%20Full.pdf
2) http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTINFORMATIONANDCOMMUNICATIONANDTECHNOLOGIES/EXTEGOVERNMENT/0,,menuPK:702592~pagePK:149018~piPK:149093~theSitePK:702586,00.html
3) http://www.w3.org/2007/06/eGov-dc/papers/SecureEGovernmentPortals
Prepared by Wong Kai Lei.
Corporate blog is published and used by an organization to reach its organizational goals. The advantage of blogs is that posts and comments are easy to reach and follow due to centralized hosting and generally structured conversation threads.Currently, corporate blogging is being used as a new marketing communication tool for companies. A corporate weblog is published and used by an organization to reach its organizational goals. Corporate blogs also giving established companies the ability to connect with their audience on a more personal level, build trust and collect valuable feedback that will help the company for the future use.
There are two types of blog which are internal blog and external blog.
Internal blog is normally accessed through company intranet and viewed by the employees within the organization. Using this way, it can help the employees to communicate with each others and share their experiences. Other than that, it also helps communication between different layers of management because every employees have their own freedom to discuss whatever topic together which they called it as a forum.
External Blog is a blog that can be viewed by public where people can live their comments or give their direct feedback through the blog. By using this external blog, companies can communicate with the clients, employees, the media, prospective employees and customers. Apart from that, corporate organization can conduct communication to public relations by posting press releases and updates about a new company products and services on the blog. By other means, corporate blogging has become a platform of direct communication between corporate organizations with outsiders which can build a better relationship with customer.
Although there are benefits, but there are still limitations of corporate blogging:
1) Negative comments
Companies are often sensitive to criticism. Negative comments from the outsiders can be offset or deleted by the company somewhat with a consistent and clear communication and moderation policy.
2) Neglect
When a blog had set up, companies should spend some time and incur cost to maintain and update their blogs regularly.
3) Misunderstanding the audience
The blog audience is not the same as the company's typical customer base, as blog readers are universally more tech-savvy, up-to-date on industry news, and more passionate about the company's products and the organization, and also likely to be highly critical of dishonesty and insincerity.
Therefore, companies that participate in blogging should manage their blogs well and effectively to bring benefits to the companies.
Additional information:
1) Corporate blogging guidelines
2) Corporate blogging policy
Prepared by Wong Kai Lei.