Masitah Ahmad

Design for Songket Weaving in Malay Cottage Industry

Songket is a traditional cultural heritage and national identity of Malaysia. Yet the hand-weaving practices are increasingly endangered and we know little about the current challenges faced by rural songket weavers. This paper interviews with 12 home-based weavers from a Malay village. We recognized two key actors in songket supply and demand chain: weavers and middlemen, and outlined the motivations and challenges of three types of weavers, alongside the multiple roles played by the middleman. We concluded with three design implications supporting songket cultural heritage preservation and weavers» economic empowerment.

Factors influencing the use of social media in adult learning experience

The uses of social media are very popular nowadays as a platform of informations exchanges among the users. It has been used to support e-learning, where lecturers uploading lecture notes and tutorial videos on a group page that joined by their students. For young generations, this is something that they expect from their lecturer. However it is different with adult learner who are not all used to today’s technologies. This paper study the factors of that influenced the use of social media in adult learning. By understanding the factors, practitioners can used it as a basis to build a more specific social media tools that is intended for adult learner. To understand the factors, a survey has been distributed to a group of postgraduate students, and the data is analyzed by using IBM SPSS 2.0. The research suggested that technology acceptance factor as most dominant factor among the others that influenced the use of social media in adult learning. The results of study also suggested there is significant relationship of all factors specified.

A design of a Personalized Educational Resources Management System

Academic institutions have developed the institution-wide e-portfolios under the label of institutional learning management systems (ILMS) applicable for teaching and learning (TL) for both educators and students. In addition to ILMS, individual educator has established a variety of e-portfolios dedicated for personalized TL upon a variety of platforms, designs and contents without special reference to students expectation and preference. This paper discusses the design of the Personalized Educational Resource Management System (PERMS) for TL tailored into a course taught by individual educator following a five steps guideline set forth by [5]. In this enhanced concept of e-portfolio, the variety of modules of PERMS provides additional and meaningful learning materials compliment the ILMS.