Application of On-line Facilities in Producing Human Capital for Malaysian New Economic Model

摘要

Malaysia launched New Economic Model in Mac 2010 to drive Malaysia's transformation into a high income economy by 2020. The foundation of this economy is innovative entrepreneurship. This new model was introduced in response to the current world situation where job market is constantly changing at a very fast rate and stiff competition between countries and between individuals. As Malaysia moves to innovation and entrepreneurship based economy, universities must produce graduates who are very independent, innovative and highly entrepreneurial. In addition, more and more digital-native students whose learning habit very much different from ours are enrolling to universities. This is a convergence of education needs and the new student learning habits that require immersive-collaborative environment, more student initiative, experience-led, and project based instead of course based To facilitate this learning requirement, on-line facilities are required to enable the students to gain new knowledge as much as possible, to collaborate globally, to synthesis new knowledge or to engage in computer simulations that replicate the real situation.