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Generating elements of Supervisory Input Support via Exploratory Factor Analysis for effective supervision in Engineering Education

Effective supervision has become a highlight in higher education in recent years. While striving for excellent student development, the constant stress in student supervision has become dominant. Outstanding supervisors can contribute to the prominence of institution image, especially in Engineering Education. This paper discusses the elements that are needed for developing effective supervision by using Exploratory Factor Analysis. The outcome of the study will serve as the competence dimensions for Supervisory Input Support that was developed by the researcher. It can be used in supervision practice especially in technical and engineering project supervision. Nevertheless, generalization of the outputs can also be applied to the other education landscape.

Improving Educator Development by Innovation in Teaching Activity via web 2.0

Preparing insightful teaching and learning materials for a lesson does need the effort from the educators. Educators should make some research of suitable ways to improve their teaching and learning sessions. In this 21st century, technologies are widely used as tools for education. Even so, there are educators that willing to support and some who do not agree to change. The aim of this study is to develop an innovation teaching materials by applying web 2.0 tools. The intention is to broaden knowledge and in the same time getting response and feedback from people regarding the teaching and learning session materials produced with proper instruction. Action research was used to give a structured flow of this study. The outcome of this study was encouraging and the reflection of this study can help educators in improvising their teaching and learning sessions and materials using action research.