Knowledge audit portal for higher learning institution

Knowledge Audit is one of the activities that should be conducted prior to development of a Knowledge Management System in an organization. Knowledge audit facilitates identification of the various forms of knowledge that are required by stakeholders of a Knowledge Management System. However, despite its importance, few KMS developers perform knowledge audit.Thus, the main objective of this study is to develop a portal prototype that serves as a KMS as well as a knowledge auditor.The portal is developed specifically for academic staff and students in a public institute of higher learning.This study is initiated with a questionnaire that is used to identify explicit knowledge required by an academic community.The responses are used to develop the prototype Knowledge Audit Portal.This prototype was designed using Rational Rose 2000, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX(for interface development) and Active Server Pages (ASP) technology(used for prototype coding).The portal demonstrates how knowledge required by a community of academic staff and student can be identified as the community uses a basic portal

Multi-criteria decision making techniques in successful knowledge sharing behaviour among Malaysian student

This research was identified the success determinants of knowledge sharing behaviour (KSB) among Malaysian university students (MUS).Each university has their own method in delivering knowledge to their undergraduates, but occasionally there would still be incomplete or hidden information. The research question is: what are the success factors in knowledge sharing behaviour (KSB) among Malaysian undergraduate communities in one of northern university in Malaysia? The aim of this research is to identify the success factors for effective knowledge sharing behaviour (KS) among Malaysian university students (MUS) in one of northern university in Malaysia.The identification was done through multi-criteria decision making techniques, which are Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to the Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) and Ranked Base on Percentage.Both techniques has come out with same result, where the personal contributes as success factors in knowledge sharing behaviour among undergraduate students

The function of knowledge audit in portal's faculty decision making

Knowledge Audit is one of the activities that should be conducted prior to development of a Knowledge Management System in an organization. There are three knowledge audit methods, includes Knowledge Survey, Knowledge Inventory and Knowledge Mapping. Knowledge audit facilitates identification of the various forms of knowledge that are required by stakeholders of a Knowledge Management System. However, despite its importance, a few KMS developers perform knowledge audit. Thus, the main objective of this study is to make decision to develop a faculty's portal that serves as a KMS as well as a knowledge auditor. The portal is developed specifically for academic staff and students in a faculty or school in university. This study is initiated with a questionnaire, which can be applied from Knowledge survey and can be used to identify explicit knowledge required by an academic community. The responses are used to develop the prototype for faculty's Knowledge Audit Portal. The portal can be as output that shows how knowledge required by a community of academic staff and student can be identified as the community uses a basic portal

Success factors in knowledge sharing behaviour among student bloggers

The aim of this research is to identify which factors may enable to Malaysian undergraduate students in sharing their knowledge successfully. Each university has their own method of delivering knowledge to their undergraduates, but occasionally there is still a need to meet the requirements of students and this has not been achieved.The research question is: what is the criterion enforce knowledge sharing behaviour successful among Malaysian undergraduate students in Universiti Utara Malaysia.From the research question, it lead to form the aim of this research in identify the success factors for effective knowledge sharing behaviour among selected Malaysian undergraduate students in Universiti Utara Malaysia.This research is initiated with an introduction to knowledge.The importance of knowledge to humans and also its connection with this research is the focus to begin with

Potensi dan pendekatan dalam perancangan pembangunan pelancongan pacuan komuniti di bawah inisiatif Pusat Transformasi Luar Bandar (RTC) Kedah, Malaysia

Pusat Transformasi Luar Bandar (RTC) merupakan sebuah pusat pelaksanaan pelbagai program pembangunan dalam merealisasikan matlamat membangunkan masyarakat luar bandar dari pelbagai segi seperti perkhidmatan, ekonomi, sosial, teknologi dan pendidikan.Pada asasnya terdapat lapan (8) inisiatif yang menjadi fokus pelaksanaan program transformasi masyarakat luar bandar oleh RTC yang diterajui oleh pelbagai kementerian berkaitan iaitu penyediaan latihan kemahiran kepada penduduk luar bandar, penyediaan kios informasi, memupuk pertanian bernilai tinggi, pemprosesan produk agro-makanan, pengurusan rantaian bekalan hasil pertanian, kerjasama universiti, perkhidmatan keselamatan makanan dan farmaseutikal, dan kemudahan pembiayaan kewangan kepada usahawan luar bandar.Namun bagi RTC Kedah, terdapat inisiatif ke-sembilan (9) iaitu pembangunan pelancongan yang diterajui oleh Kementerian Pelancongan dan Kebudayaan Malaysia. Kertas kerja ini membincangkan potensi produk pelancongan tempatan dan pendekatan strategik dalam perancangan pembangunan pelancongan di Negeri Kedah yang dipacu oleh masyarakat luar bandar selari dengan peranan dan fungsi RTC. Dengan pelbagai nilai keunikan yang dimiliki selain Pulau Langkawi, fokus pelancongan bagi RTC Kedah dengan mengambil kira objektif transformasi masyarakat luar bandar, boleh dikembangkan melalui beberapa sektor utama iaitu penginapan, pengangkutan, pusat membeli-belah, makanan dan minuman, sukan dan rekreasi, produk pelancongan tempatan, serta kesenian, kebudayaan dan sejarah. Bagaimanakah masyarakat luar bandar boleh memainkan peranan utama dalam memacu industri pelancongan tempatan dan apakah pendekatan strategik yang bersesuaian dalam perancangan pembangunan pelancongan oleh RTC Kedah dan kementerian penerajunya

Analytical hierarchy process and Markov Chain in shared knowledge through social media

Many studies have been performed to measure successful knowledge sharing in general.However, limited study has been done to assess successful knowledge sharing through social media.Hence, in this paper intend to discuss our approach to assess knowledge sharing among personal social media user.In order to achieve our objective, we proposed to integrate Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Markov Chain (MC) technique to investigate the pattern of the shared knowledge through social media.Markov Chain will be used to model the knowledge sharing success through expert opinion and stochastic process.We anticipate the outcome of the assessment in a form of a final matrix showing the probability of successful knowledge sharing through social media.The elements in each row of the Markov Chain transition matrix will be calculated using Analytic Hierarchy Process. The assessment tool produce from our research is expected to benefit policy maker or internet user in order to enhance their knowledge sharing strategy in social media application

Perceptions of foreign language study among KPTMAS students.

This article is to determine the student perceptions of foreign language study (FL) in Kolej Poly-Tech Mara Alor Setar. A foreign language is also known as a second language. Case study method was used to explore and investigate contemporary real-life phenomenon through detailed contextual analysis of the student perceptions of foreign language study with very limited number of individuals as the subjects of the study. The researchers were becoming more concerned about the limitations of quantitative methods in providing holistic and in-depth explanations of the student perceptions of foreign language study. The data derived from in-depth interviews with eight students from two programs which are Diploma in Business Management and Diploma in Tourism Management and who had taken high school or college foreign language courses or both in this study. There were four categories of data: learners’ perception and beliefs, common language learn on FL, factors that influents FL learning and evaluation of their own level of success in FL study. In general, some students report low estimates of their level of competency towards oral communication due to their lack of effort in the foreign language classroom

The impact of knowledge sharing through social media among academia

The world of research require researcher, academia and lecturers to share knowledge among them. With the invention of social media, knowledge sharing process has been more effective and easy. Previously, there were numerous researches done to investigate the effect of social media utilization for public used.There were also study that aimed to study social media effects in educatioanal sector but those study were centered around student’s perspective.Less consideration is given towards academia’s perspective. Therefore, this study is directed to explore other niche area on knowledge sharing environment where it will focused on the effects of social media on knowledge sharing among academia.Initially, literature review analysis was done to discover the potential factors that encourage academia to engage in social media.Ability to facilitate communication, idea generation and group establishment are the most cited reasons. Not only that, this paper will highlight the significance of performing this study.In conclusion, there is no doubt that social media do enhance and upgrading the knowledge sharing process thus assisting academia in their scholarly work

Measuring successful knowledge sharing among academia through social media

This paper aims to study the influence of social media on knowledge sharing among academia. Previously, many researches have been done to explore the importance emergence of social media for public use, but there are still limited studies on how this technological advancement affects the academia.For this study, Facebook is chosen as one of the online social networking tools as the medium of knowledge sharing. To begin with, this study is started with the identification of factors that encourage the academia to share their knowledge through social media. These factors are then categorized based on Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). After this knowledge has successfully shared, the level of successful knowledge sharing through Facebook is modeled using Fuzzy Logic.Fuzzy inputs for this study are the number of like, comment and share. Findings from this study indeed showed that there are many reasons encouraging academia to utilize social media for their work.Besides, this paper contributes new knowledge to fuzzy logic application as it is the first known research in measuring Facebook engagement for knowledge sharing purposes.In conclusion although there exist some barriers and limitations with the use of social media, academia are showing a positive shift in the application of these tools for work

Impact of instagram on self-esteem among students in Northern University: a case study in UUM

Instagram is utilized each day universally and it is a more up to date free social networking site. It is an online versatile photograph sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that empowers its users to take pictures and recordings and offer them on various stages. Self esteem refers to both an individual’s affective feeling towards themselves (how much they like themselves) as well as their cognitive judgment of their own self-worth. This study was conducted through interview among selected students in Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). Focus of this study is the impact of Instagram on selfesteem in individual and the different on self-esteem between genders. The result shows many of the responses were positive feelings about themselves. Meanwhile, findings also show that there is a difference in self-esteem between the male and a female students which is female students has more self-esteem than male students. Social media play an important role in individual life. It is further pointed out that more current and future research is relevant to the use of social media and its importance to the development of one's self-esteem