The printing press greatly expanded learning opportunities when it appeared in the 15th century. Now, online learning plays an increasingly larger part, with a history that goes back to the 1950s when distance learning was offered on educational TV.
In the 1960s, there were classes conducted via kinescope to navy personnel on nuclear submarines. Late 1990s, tech-savvy learners began to benefit from audio and video streaming as computers became more powerful and modems ran faster.
The shift to remote teaching has made learning possible without the close contact characteristic of conventional education. Now more than ever, learning needs to be less dependent on physical proximity. As social distancing turns crucial to curbing the Covid-19 epidemic, online is the rising social saviour.
Digital technology is an important element in learning and teaching at Management and Science University (MSU). Supporting faculty pedagogy are the smart classrooms, designed to facilitate engaged and active learning through various teaching aids of the 21st century. Equally important supplements of classroom learning are the digital platforms eKLAS and MODeL or MSU Online Distance e-Learning, both University-wide initiatives for technology-embedded teaching and learning.
Besides social-distancing compliant, online learning presents other specific benefits. Whereas lectures happen just once for classroom-sitting students, they can last as long as needed by distance learners. Online lectures can be paused at various points for a learner to load up on background material, and then started up again.
Interspersed tests during an online lecture help instill the expectation to express what had just been learned. The testing is an incentive for learners to pay closer attention in anticipation of the questions coming and needing answers. Research has shown that such short frequent tests triple note-taking efforts, halve the likelihood of the mind wandering, and generally improve material retention through better absorption.
As per the current global situation with the Coronavirus, efforts at Management and Science University (MSU) aim to reassure and reconnect by bringing virtual normalcy to the local as well as the larger communities. Other than reaching out through the MSU Social Media platforms of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube to offer informational support, helping people stay connected and motivated, the University is also offering online counselling for potential future MSUrians to explore their learning opportunities.
Throughout the MCO, Management and Science University (MSU) supports the learning of all its students with online materials in a blended mode of learning. Full-time lectures that had been scheduled pre-MCO go online, delivering the MSU commitment to the index for graduation on time (IGoT). Though student participation is currently not mandatory, it is encouraged to ensure uninterrupted learning.
Online assessments and exams are nothing new at MSU as the University had successfully run online classes in blended learning mode. Scores of teachers working full-time have graduated successfully with a Bachelor of Education (Honours) - TESL, a Bachelor in Early Childhood Education (Hons), or a Bachelor of Counselling and Guidance (Hons) from Management and Science University (MSU), through blended learning under the Graduate Teachers Programme (Program Pensiswazahan Guru, PPG) by the Ministry of Education Malaysia. Navy officers, too, have been earning their Diploma in Culinary Arts through blended learning at MSU.
As we acclimate to the unprecedented circumstances in which the whole world is finding itself, with in-person activities restricted until further notice, a future possibly necessitating a re-route to remote learning is anticipated in a state of readiness at Management and Science University (MSU).
Gold for MSU at Teachers Innovation Carnival on e-Learning
MSU’s Health and Life Sciences teaching tools win kNOVASi awards
MSU launches MODeL ahead of 23rd Convocation
Flexibility for the lifelong learner
The printing press greatly expanded learning opportunities when it appeared in the 15th century. Now, online learning plays an increasingly larger part, with a history that goes back to the 1950s when distance learning was offered on educational TV.
In the 1960s, there were classes conducted via kinescope to navy personnel on nuclear submarines. Late 1990s, tech-savvy learners began to benefit from audio and video streaming as computers became more powerful and modems ran faster.
The shift to remote teaching has made learning possible without the close contact characteristic of conventional education. Now more than ever, learning needs to be less dependent on physical proximity. As social distancing turns crucial to curbing the Covid-19 epidemic, online is the rising social saviour.
Digital technology is an important element in learning and teaching at Management and Science University (MSU). Supporting faculty pedagogy are the smart classrooms, designed to facilitate engaged and active learning through various teaching aids of the 21st century. Equally important supplements of classroom learning are the digital platforms eKLAS and MODeL or MSU Online Distance e-Learning, both University-wide initiatives for technology-embedded teaching and learning.
Besides social-distancing compliant, online learning presents other specific benefits. Whereas lectures happen just once for classroom-sitting students, they can last as long as needed by distance learners. Online lectures can be paused at various points for a learner to load up on background material, and then started up again.
Interspersed tests during an online lecture help instill the expectation to express what had just been learned. The testing is an incentive for learners to pay closer attention in anticipation of the questions coming and needing answers. Research has shown that such short frequent tests triple note-taking efforts, halve the likelihood of the mind wandering, and generally improve material retention through better absorption.
As per the current global situation with the Coronavirus, efforts at Management and Science University (MSU) aim to reassure and reconnect by bringing virtual normalcy to the local as well as the larger communities. Other than reaching out through the MSU Social Media platforms of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube to offer informational support, helping people stay connected and motivated, the University is also offering online counselling for potential future MSUrians to explore their learning opportunities.
Throughout the MCO, Management and Science University (MSU) supports the learning of all its students with online materials in a blended mode of learning. Full-time lectures that had been scheduled pre-MCO go online, delivering the MSU commitment to the index for graduation on time (IGoT). Though student participation is currently not mandatory, it is encouraged to ensure uninterrupted learning.
Online assessments and exams are nothing new at MSU as the University had successfully run online classes in blended learning mode. Scores of teachers working full-time have graduated successfully with a Bachelor of Education (Honours) - TESL, a Bachelor in Early Childhood Education (Hons), or a Bachelor of Counselling and Guidance (Hons) from Management and Science University (MSU), through blended learning under the Graduate Teachers Programme (Program Pensiswazahan Guru, PPG) by the Ministry of Education Malaysia. Navy officers, too, have been earning their Diploma in Culinary Arts through blended learning at MSU.
As we acclimate to the unprecedented circumstances in which the whole world is finding itself, with in-person activities restricted until further notice, a future possibly necessitating a re-route to remote learning is anticipated in a state of readiness at Management and Science University (MSU).
Gold for MSU at Teachers Innovation Carnival on e-Learning
MSU’s Health and Life Sciences teaching tools win kNOVASi awards
MSU launches MODeL ahead of 23rd Convocation
Flexibility for the lifelong learner