Cabaran PdPR menggunakan aplikasi buku teks digital Pendidikan Islam KSSR

Textbooks are one of the main teaching resources in Teaching and Facilitation (PdPC) sessions. The change of the PdPC education system face to face to Teaching and Learning at Home (PdPR) is changing the way of learning in Malaysia whether at the primary, secondary and institutions of higher learning. The use of printed textbooks during PdPC has changed to the use of digital textbooks during PdPR. The purpose of this study is to identify the challenges of using digital textbooks of Islamic Education Primary School Standard Curriculum (KSSR) during PdPR and propose solutions to overcome these challenges. This study is qualitative in nature by obtaining data through interviews and document analysis. The study found that the challenges in conducting PdPR exist in terms of teachers, students and materials. Several solutions have been proposed to overcome these challenges. The conclusion is that textbooks still remain the main resource in PdPC sessions even when conducted online. This study has implications for Islamic Education teachers to apply digital textbooks during PdPR

Challenges of quantity surveyors in Klang Valley to work from home

With the uprising trend of modern management systems adoption, the enthusiasm for corporates to exercise the working culture of work from home are seemingly proliferated to fit in the recent corporate world. However, the published research papers and statistics regarding the information and comprehension of quantity surveyor to work from home are unexpectedly sporadic. Therefore, this research reviews the insights of quantity surveyor to work from home while drawing discussion and conclusion on the uprising challenges of work from home for quantity surveyors to execute their roles. The paper compiles the responses obtained from the methodology of surveying 145 related professions in construction industry around Klang Valley area. The questionnaire was designed with five-point Likert scale, and the data was analyzed by using SPSS software. The study displayed reduced supervision and direction as the greatest challenge, followed by significant challenges which include communication and coordination challenges, organization performance and productivity, job performance and productivity, and unclear performance metrics. Hence, personnel in the industry should be aware of the potential challenges of a quantity surveyor to work from home due to their roles, in order to indicate the potential effects that may incur to the individual and organization

Challenges of quantity surveyors in Klang Valley to work from home

With the uprising trend of modern management systems adoption, the enthusiasm for corporates to exercise the working culture of work from home are seemingly proliferated to fit in the recent corporate world. However, the published research papers and statistics regarding the information and comprehension of quantity surveyor to work from home are unexpectedly sporadic. Therefore, this research reviews the insights of quantity surveyor to work from home while drawing discussion and conclusion on the uprising challenges of work from home for quantity surveyors to execute their roles. The paper compiles the responses obtained from the methodology of surveying 145 related professions in construction industry around Klang Valley area. The questionnaire was designed with five-point Likert scale, and the data was analyzed by using SPSS software. The study displayed reduced supervision and direction as the greatest challenge, followed by significant challenges which include communication and coordination challenges, organization performance and productivity, job performance and productivity, and unclear performance metrics. Hence, personnel in the industry should be aware of the potential challenges of a quantity surveyor to work from home due to their roles, in order to indicate the potential effects that may incur to the individual and organization

Effects of poor communication in the construction industry in Klang Valley, Malaysia

The construction industry is a risky and complex industry involving various parties characterized with different objectives, skills, cultures, and values. This requires effective communication management to facilitate interaction between them and ensure delivery of successful projects. The poor performance of the Malaysian construction sector has its root in poor communication. Poor communication may result in project failure. Therefore, this paper is essential to investigate the effects of communication issues in the construction industry. This research study was conducted and analysed using SPSS Software. The five-point Likert type scale has been adopted for the questions which is distributed to over 121 respondents who are working in the construction industry around Petaling Jaya, Klang Valley, Malaysia. A total of 8 effects of poor communication in the construction industry were identified. The most dominant effect is time overrun while other effects include project failure, cost overrun, fatal and non-fatal accidents, waste generation, increase carbon footprint and contribute to greenhouse effect. However, questionnaire surveys may result in dishonest answers. Hence, the study recommends conducting physical interviews to better understand respondents view on the negative impacts of poor communication and at the same time, raise awareness as a strategic approach to achieve successful construction projects

Effects of unethical behavior among professionals in Klang Valley construction industry

Professionals are integral to the project. However, conflicts of interest among professional such as clients and contractors, project managers, architects play an important role in unethical practices that have an adverse effect in the construction industry. Therefore, this study aims to identify the effects of unethical issues that occur among the professionals in Klang Valley construction industry. The data collection has been conducted via questionnaire survey and has been analyzed using SPSS. Most respondents agree that “Delay of construction project” is the main effect of unethical behavior with a mean of 4.36 and SD= 0.848. When a project is delayed, it would cause major problems such as project abandonment, cost overrun, conflicts against parties and poor-quality works. This is because a project depends on the cost and time in order to be completed. Furthermore, a delayed project leads to a rushed project that will cause defective works. Frequent maintenance will be needed for repairing works, thus increasing the cost to bear in the project itself. Lastly, it is recommended that the timeframe for future studies should be increased to allow researchers to have sufficient time to collect more data in order to improve the accuracy and reliability of data collected

Soft shadow rendering based on real light source estimation in augmented reality

The most challenging task in developing Augmented Reality (AR) applications is to make virtual objects mixed harmoniously with the real scene. To achieve photorealistic AR environment, three key issues must be emphasized namely consistency of geometry, illumination and time. Shadow is an essential element to improve visual perception and realism. Without shadow, virtual objects will appear like it is floating and thus will make the environment look unrealistic. However, many shadow algorithms still have drawbacks such as producing sharp and hard-edged outlines, which make the shadow’s appearance unrealistic. Thus, this paper will focus on generating soft shadow in AR scene, rendered base on real light sources position. The reflective sphere is used to create environment map image that can estimate the light source from the real scene and generate the soft shadows

A Review of Shadow Techniques in Augmented Reality

The seamless integration between computer-generated objects with real scene is desirable in Augmented Reality applications. The challenging task in Augmented Reality application is to make virtual objects mixed harmoniously with the real scene. To achieve these photorealistic rendering, it is not only considering visual complexity of virtual objects but the consistency of illumination between virtual objects with real scene must also be determined. With the consistency of illumination, virtual objects can cast shadows that appear as part of the real scene. The consistent shadow of the virtual objects will give a correct explanation of the relative distance between the virtual and the real objects. This paper will explore regarding shadow techniques to improve photorealism for rendering virtual objects in Augmented Reality system. The evaluation among previous techniques presented in this paper is also important as a preliminary step for future findings related to the field of Augmented Reality

A review on augmented reality for virtual heritage system

Augmented reality is one of the emerging technologies to reconstruct the historical building and monument in the previous era, where the user experiences with the real environment or virtual scene. In education, Virtual Heritage becomes as a platform of learning, motivating and understanding of certain events and historical elements for the students and researchers. The significance of reconstruction of digital culture heritage are to preserve, protect and interpret of our cultural and history. In recent year, there are a number of significant researches and techniques that have been developed, which is focusing on virtual restitution of historical sites. This paper will present an overview on augmented reality in Virtual Heritage system and also consists with the explanation of techniques to reconstruct the historical sites