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The Global Online Workforce (GLOW) Program By Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)

By: RIDZWANSYAH IRWAN

On 24^th of September, MDEC was held a talk about GLOW program. The speaker of the talk is Nur Ashikin Halil, one of the program participant.

The participant that have success in the program

                                                                                 Source: erezeki.my

GLOW or first known as E-rezeki is a program by MDEC that was launch 17 June 2015 by the 6^th Prime Minister Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Razak. GLOW is a program that enables Malaysian citizens, especially low-income groups that household income of below RM4000 per month (B40, generate additional income by doing digital assignments via online crowdsourcing platform. This programs are not limited for the citizens that expert in ICT, because there are many kind of job that GLOW offer for all the participant. The main purpose of this program is to coach, mentor and nurture full time crowd workers that are able to consistently earn a stable digital income of more than RM2,000 monthly. The program aims to generate fixed and stable digital income for Malaysians via crowdsourcing.  Crowdsourcing is the future as it enables digital works to be offered and delivered online. Currently, MDEC collaborates with some of the largest global crowdsourcing platforms such as Freelancer.com and Upwork.com.

                                                               GLOW(E-rezeki) launch ceremony

                                                                                 Source: Amanz.my

Through this program, MDEC aspires to train and nurture qualified apprentices to become successful and capable online freelancers in global platforms. The reason why MDEC implement the program are because to create a community of full time high quality crowd workers among Malaysians, to establish a sustainable model on the Global Online Workforce Program through engagement with strategic partners, to provide alternative sources of income for Malaysians via multiple online platforms and to develop a support program for Malaysian freelancers to remain motivated, driven and committed in earning digital income via crowdsourcing platforms.

The main job that being offer on this program is digital micro task, digital works and digital-enabled task. Digital micro task is a simple task involving data entry, processing images or actions that required non-specific high level of skills to perform. Tasks can be performed and completed within few minutes. The examples of digital micro task are data entry of online form, removing duplicated data and video or image review. Besides, digital works is an online platform for freelancers to get hired and get paid. As a freelancer, the participants are enable to freely working from anywhere or anytime and choose any job that suits with the skills and expertise. For example, development of a website, mobile application development, creation of logo, graphic designs software testing, or audio or video transcription work. Next, digital-enabled task is a works or tasks such as survey, running errands or domestic services which online but has to be performed offline or on-site. The jobs are, conducting survey, products price watch, event part-time crews, running errands, plumber or electrician.

The citizens that sign up on the program will be able to get a lot of benefits from it.  One of the benefit is the flexibility of working online. The citizen can do the job without effect their main job and only need an internet, a laptop and personal time management.  This is due to some of the job that being offer by the program can be done anywhere and anytime. In addition, GLOW can be benefit to the citizen through increasing the quality family time. This is especially to women and can be applied to men also because as a working mother or father, its hard balancing the time for work and family. On the other hand, by joining the GLOW program, the working mother or father can work online. Working online allowing the citizen to work from their home giving the much-needed flexibility to spend time with the family. Besides, the other benefit that the Malaysians can gain from the program is it can save a lot of money. The citizen doesn’t need to buy fuel for the car or buy public transport tickets to go to the workplace. It also saves money for your food when at the workplace since you can get much cheaper food when cooking at home. Other than that, even the fee to register this program are free.

Moreover, the other benefit why Malaysian need to join the program now are various incentives offered to qualified individual, opportunities to generate a full time stable and consistent digital income monthly, helps individual to become disciplined and independent workers by having to complete the digital works within a stipulated timelines and requirements by employers, generate digital income based on individual capability, and opportunities to start a business for digital works to increase digital income monthly.

MDEC have do many program to give information about how important the Global Online Workforce program give benefit to the citizen of Malaysia. For example, MDEC have do a lot of talk, sharing success stories and even create video about the program on their website and others such as Youtube and Facebook. Besides, MDEC also has made a tutorial class for those who want to join the program. In the class, they will teach you how to register for a job, how to find a job regarding your own interest and tips on how to finish the job within the time schedule that has been given to you by the company or someone that offer the job.

The Malaysian citizen that want to participate in this program are must comply with the following basic terms.

Besides the basic terms, the citizen that want to participate in this program must fulfil one of the following side conditions.

The participant that joining this program will be given their scope of jobs by using the selection criteria. The selection criteria are as follows.

1. Specialized skills sets in IT - programming, website development, mobile apps development
2. Creative design - graphic design, multimedia
3. Linguistics - translation, transcription in foreign languages such as Mandarin, Arabic, French
4. Proof of specialized skills set – portfolio, resume, certifications or work assignments

The participant that give commitment to participate in the full time intensive training for 3 months at the E-rezeki Apprentice centres and commitment to become active digital workers able to consistently generate a minimum digital income of USD500 / RM2,150 monthly. In addition, English language proficiency is important to be master so the participant be able to develop work proposals and interact with international employers or organizations.

The E-rezeki or Global Online Workforce (GLOW) program has gave a lot of big impact to Malaysia and its citizen since it been launch in 2015. A lot of citizen under B40 group that joining the program have been success and manage to increasing their household and now has a stable income. on the other hand, the economics of Malaysia are getting good day by day in line with Malaysia's goal of becoming a developed nation by 2020. Other country has look Malaysia as a highly potential developing country and have interested to make Malaysia as a place of investment. The improvement of the economics has make Malaysia be able to cooperate with other country in terms of business partnership.

To summarize, after attending this industrial talk, I have become more interested to know more about working on an online platform. I discovered that by joining this such of program, it gave me a lot of opportunity to know any jobs on the internet that really suits me rather than just sit on the office doing the things that we do not like. As everyone have their own point of view, but I really think that after the talk, finding money is not that hard as many people think. We can find money with our skills as long as we trust in ourselves that we can do the jobs. Besides, I discovered that even that our simplest skill like photography, or even just reviewing a photo or video can give us a lot of benefits if we put enough creativity and effort into working on them. On the internet, even the simplest things can be valuable if we can sell them to the person that need them. Last but not least, I learn that the Malaysia government has do a lot of works to help its citizen out of poverty and increasing their income. This is the reason that make me should be proud and being thankful as the citizen of Malaysia.

References

1. https://erezeki.my/
2. https://www.mdec.my/
3. https://glowmalaysia.com

                                             New Academia Learning Innovation (NALI) 2018 Exhibition Report

                                                                                  By : Group Tetrahedron

On 25^th and 26^th September, New Academia Learning Innovation (NALI) 2018 Exhibition was held at Dewan Sultan Iskandar, UTM Johor Bahru. The exhibition was brought by UTM Academic Leadership (UTMlead) in collaboration with School of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities UTM and Asia Technological University Network (ATU-NET). At the exhibition, we manage to visit four booths and gain information about how innovation are implemented to teaching and learning. The booths are as follow.

For booth 45, E-Paluv short for Electronic Problem Based Learning for Sustainable Development Indicator. E-Paluv is an interactive learning module that suitable for the Z-generation students. It is a practical learning platform where students can apply their knowledge on the current issues through gamification. Instructor can easily assess the individual student performance and understanding by using an interactive online assessment. This module is useful as best practice and self-paced learning parallel with the 10th Shift: Transformed Higher Education Delivery according to the Malaysia Educational Blueprint. E-Paluv works based on three task.

Task 1 is about eCity or SimCity, a city simulation game where you are challenged to solve different engineering issues. In this task, students must be able to do three project on the simulation game. The first project is to develop a virtual sustainable city. The objective on this project is to identify major issue or problem of sustainable development in a city, to propose solutions by developing a virtual city using eCity and to enhance understanding on sustainable development. The second project is win the game. The aim for this project is to solve sustainable development issues using eCity. The student need to play and win the game so that they can enhance their understanding on sustainable development issue. Next, after finishing with project 2, student must do project 3 which is developing the Sustainable Development Indicator(SDI). This project aiming to solve sustainable issue, relate with SDI using eCity. The objective is to play and develop SDI Indicator using eCity game and to enhance understanding on sustainable development issue and SDI indicator.

After that, the student will continue with task 2 which is Kahoot!, a free game-based learning platform. In this task, students need to answer all the questions in limited time given via smartphone. The instructor will share Game Pin for students to log in. Then, the student will write a report which is the third task. The report must have the following content.

• Introduction

• Description of selected city

• Issue of selected city

• Description of scenario and relate it with sustainable development issue

• Propose solution using eCity/SimCity

• Describe how you play and win the game? What strategies had been used?

• Every member should write their experience playing the scenario

• Describe how you develop the SDI and how you measure it

 After all the task finished, the teacher will do the assessment. As for the evaluation purpose, Task 1, 2 and 3 were linked to MOHE (Ministry of Higher Education). Suitable rubric was used to assess the student performance.

Learning outcome (LO) as follow:

-           MOHE LO3: Problem solving and scientific skills

-           MOHE LO7: Information management and lifelong learning

After attending the NALI Exhibition, I was impressed on how innovation in this 21th century can be implement for upgrading the teaching and learning to a new level. By using the innovation and technology, teaching and learning become more affective and fast. This environment makes a new meaning for the use of technology. I believe that, when every school and learning institute in Malaysia apply the innovation and technology on teaching and learning, Malaysia will become a developed country with first class minded citizen in no time.

                                    Note: The picture show about the booth in the NALI exhibition that I went

Therefore, for the booth 53, ENHANCING LEARNING THROUGH GAMIFICATION is a simulation game where the participants play a game that has many modules that teach them about business in a practical and entertaining way, then they make a presentation about what they have leant while playing this game.

The objective of this program is:

 Introducing a new way of business education through Gamification.

MONSOONSIM BUSINESS SIMULATION aims to make a new way of education which lets the students learn through a simulation game that give them the experience they need for the job.

Benefits:

*Anyone can join this program .

*The certificate of this program can boost your CV. 

*The program give you the experience you need for business.

Awards received:

*Two UTM teams became the Malaysian champion and 1st runner-up (2017) respectively.

*Sponsorship by Knowledge.com (10,000RM) for three consecutive years (2016,2017,2018).

*Represented Malaysia at the regional competition.           

Names of certified trainers:

*Shafudin Mohd Yatim .

*Dr.M.Shah Kassim.

*Dr.Zulkifli Khair.

My view:

I think MONSOONSIM BUSINESS SIMULATION program is an interesting way of teaching and it could potentially make learning easier and more enjoyable to students 

Name of speaker:

Mohamad Shah Kassin.

                                    Note: The picture show about the booth in the NALI exhibition that I went

 In addition, for booth 53 the topic that were discuss is adapting gamification approach in massive open online courses to improve user engagement. Gamification has become another platform for a student to increase their knowledge in every aspect of knowledge. This is because student nowadays always spent lot of their leisure time to play games. In other to prevent students from wasting their time by playing bad games, so this approach is really good for us as a students. It can make us spend our time wisely at the same time had some fun by playing an educational games. Other than that, gamification also helps student to understand more about their subjects study. Massive Open Online Course(MOOC) has give an opportunity for students to enhance their skills in their own preferred study. MOOC is a model for delivering learning content online to any person who wants to take a course with no limit on attendance. By using MOOC gamification can be spread widely by lecturer or even by student himself to another student. Besides, student do not need to worry if they fails when playing the games or how many time they want to play that games because gamification approach in Massive Open Online Course does not have any time limit or how many time you must play it. In conclusion, adapting gamification approach in Massive Open Online Course to improve user engagement is a good steps to the students nowadays in other for them to succeed in every life challenging that they had or will encounter in their life.

My view:

I think that gamification is a good thing for a youth nowadays but depends on how you use it in your daily life. If you make a wrong choice then it will be a bad thing to you and vice versa.

                                   Note: The picture show about the booth in the NALI exhibition that I went

 Lastly, in booth 21 we visits a booth that discuss about forming interdisciplinary engineering teams using personality type differences. There are four personality type that they were focus on. First is artisan. This personality describe about our courage to be a confident person, quick-thinking and dynamic. Second, is guardian. In other to form interdisciplinary engineering teams we must have personality type of guardian which mean that we need to be a loyal towards each other and always respect each other. Third, is rational. Rational mean that someone need to have a great strategist to form a team with others. Someone with rational personality can view problems from multiple perspectives,will bring well thought-out arguments and independent one. Lastly, is idealist. Idealist is a personality more to easy-going one. People with this personality is always calm, steady and have a strong desire to improve their surroundings and the people they meet. This personality type is really important to form interdisciplinary engineering teams among each other.

My View:

Those personality is important to form a good team in any circumstance but to form a team you must have a good cooperation among each other. So in my opinion even we do not have all the four personality type as long as we have enough faith in our team members and good cooperation we still manage to overcome the problem that we has to face.

                                           Note: The picture show about the booth in the NALI exhibition that I went

The Centre for Information and Communication Technology (CICT) is responsible for ensuring that staffs and students in UTM have access to teaching, learning and research ICT resources. To achieve this, CICT provides the university's IT infrastructure, acquired, developing and supporting new and emerging technologies and systems, and provides access to digital resources across the university's campuses.

On 1^st October 2018, we have managed to go to the Centre for Information and Communication Technology (CICT) for an industrial visit. On that day, we have been exposed about the functions and objectives of CICT, ICT services that being offered to all of the students and staffs of UTM and the ICT regulations or policy of UTM. In short, the briefing tells about CICT introduction and their objective towards giving the best for students and staff of UTM. The speaker also explained about the services provided by CICT such as WIFI-UTM, ACID, VPN and UTM Live@edu. In addition, the briefing also told about the facilities at CICT building. As example, computers, project discussion area and specialize multimedia and content authoring production lab (SMAL). CICT also provides free softwares for students, such as Office 365, Final Cut Pro, and Adobe Suite. After the short briefing, we have been taken to see CICT Gallerium to look and learn about the history of ICT technology.  The visit ended about 6 o’clock.

Our industry visit to CICT began at 4.00 pm in the evening. All of us gathered with participating students from other classes ten minutes beforehand in front of N24 building. As soon as we got the instruction from our lecturer, we all walked to the seminar room to listen for briefing on CICT services and regulations. The visit started with attendance checking and a briefing by a member of CICT department. It was given by Mr. Zahari bin Zainal Abidin. The CICT objectives are to increase the adoption of Information Technology in all university activities, to provide guaranteed ICT infrastructure and facilities, to become a reference centre in ICT Services in the university, to explore new technologies in ICT services and implementation, and to increase ICT competencies of the university’s community.

There are a lot of ICT services provided for students. It is divided into five categories which is basic ICT services, student management Services, ICT instructional services, ICT social services and additional e-services. Basic ICT services includes PPICTP, Wi-Fi UTM, VPN, ACID and UTM Live@edu. The facilities for students to do their ICT project is located at Student ICT Service Centre, which also called as PPICTP. This service centre has approximately 450 computers with different types of OS (380 Windows platform, 50 Mac OS and 20 Linux OS). Three project discussion areas were also designed to create proper discussion environment. Besides, PPICTP also provides photocopy services, CD/DVD burning, binding and laminating. For multimedia students, Specialize Multimedia and Content Authoring Production Lab (SMAL) is specially provided for them to do multimedia-related projects. This lab has multimedia facilities such as lighting and chroma key, mixer, DVD printer, whisper room, Mac Pro computers and many related softwares.

Next, internet can be accessed by all colleges whether using wifi or wired. For administrative and academic network, mostly the connections are wired in faculties and admin offices. In contrast, colleges network use wi-fi as it can be used by many people in the areas remotely. There are over 1600 access points for network connection entire this university and the backbone for the network infrastructure is the CICT. Then the network is distributed to all UTM colleges. To access UTM Wi-Fi network, the students need to use their ACID for authentication. The bandwidth dedicated for residential college network has a total amount of 1Gbps. Other than that, there is also Virtual Private Network (VPN) service to access UTM intranet from the outside of UTM campus. The users just need to enter http://vpn.utm.my and use their ACID to login.

All online services provided by CICT now all integrated under one domain which is One Stop Student Services. This includes student management services such as AIMS and student financial system, and ICT instructional services like e-Learning, MyLine and e-PPP. E-Learning is an educational portal that assists student  and lecturers  in the teaching and learining process to be more effective and flexible. While the lecturers give you score for your test, you also can give your lecturers score as evaluation on their teaching performance through e-PPP. Students don’t have to worry that the lecturers will be angry with them because the information you give won’t be known by the lecturers. Therefore, students are requested to evaluate with honesty.

It was a good briefing by Mr. Zahari bin Zainal Abidin. Next, we all moved to CICT Gallerium to see early ICT technologies. All of them were not used today because they are developing exponentially so the old ones were discarded. Today’s technologies are really advance and their specifications are thousand times more superior. For instance, old computer storage is really big in size but it can store only a little amount of data, compared to our generation’s. After learning about the past, this visit finally came to its end. We all started to leave CICT by 6 o’clock in the evening and headed to our college.

From this visit, we managed to increase our interest in studying software engineering course. This visit made us understand what we need to do so we can reach our goals and how to get there by working hard on our studies right now. We can never waste our time doing meaningless activities. Eventually, we should also learn on how to make schedules to differentiate our time between studying, fun activities, sleeping etc. Hence, to improve ourselves in this field, we have to inform ourselves about all the new improvement that happens very fast in this industry and how we should keep up by improving our knowledge about technologies that I will face in the future. In addition, we should keep practising what we have learned from time to time so we will not forget it when we finish our study.

Last but not least, by involving in this visit, we as students and dreamers want to learn more regarding our course which is software engineering and become really good at it so that we could achieve our dream, to get the jobs that make us apply all of our knowledge for good causes. We also dream to meet more people from similar course so that we can improve ourselves and learn more from their experience.