Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI) has organized the Staff Excellence Award to recognize and appreciate the outstanding commitment and achievement of staff at UPSI. Award nominations are open to all UPSI staff according to the defined terms and conditions.
The Teaching, Learning, Assessment and Supervision (TLAS) program is a structured training program to empower the method delivery of teaching and learning (PdP), curriculum, assessment and supervision teaching practice at UPSI.Through this structured training program approach, various exercises meet the requirements of Education 4.0 in particular and Industrial Revolution 4.0 in general was introduced to all academic staff at UPSI.
The 9th surge in Malaysia’s Education Development Plan 2015-2025 has outlined online learning to a global level aimed at widening access to education, improving teaching and learning quality, reducing the cost of delivering and highlighting Malaysian IPTs in the international arena as well as fostering lifelong learning in particular among Malaysians.
Blended Learning is a model that combines online and face-to-face learning spaces and experiences. This is due to digital and social media become more and more prevalent in the life of learners.
High impact practice:
learning activities that provide meaningful learning experiences that support holistic student development (hsd) based on the nation’s education philosophy – maximizing individual potential in physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual.
Constructive Alignment (CA) refers to the principles used to design teaching and learning activities as well as assessment assignments that directly link learning outcomes that are typically unreachable in traditional lectures, classroom tutorials and exams. Fostering holistic, entrepreneurial and balanced graduates requires transformation and shifting minds in terms of curriculum design, learning activities and tasks used for assessment.
One of MQA’s accreditation requirements is continuous quality improvement. Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) is taking steps to monitor the program of study at UPSI by gaining performance indicators to achieve program learning outcomes through the achievement of course learning outcomes. The CLOM (Course Learning Outcomes Monitoring) system has been introduced since Semester 1 of the 2010/2011 Session to assess the course’s learning outcomes. CLOM provides an achievement index for each learning outcome of a course as well as the overall index for the course.
On each 8th week of seminars in each semester, lecturers for each course need to monitor learning and teaching (PdP). Monitoring can be made through the online monitoring system 8th week online through the MyGuru Portal.
Course assessment by students is held at the end of each semester. Evaluation This course is held to improve the quality of lecturers in implementing PdP. According to UPSI’s Strategic Plan, the university needs to monitor the quality of lecturers in implementing PdP by looking at the percentage of lecturers to score 80%.
Exit Survey is a survey conducted to obtain feedback on student satisfaction on the facilities and services provided by the relevant center of responsibility (PTj) during the student study period at UPSI. It is implemented on the final semester student of the program of study.
Concept of Study Mode 3u1i
- Known as a mode of industry study, the incorporation of learning inside and outside of campus.
- This Study Mode describes 3 years of study within the campus and 1 year of study in the industry.
- This mode of study incorporates elements of integrated work education (Work Integrated Education-WIE), Work-based Learning (WBL) and Work Integrated Learning (WIL).
The Malaysian Qualifications Framework (MQF) is Malaysia’s declaration about its qualifications and their quality in relation to its education system. MQF was first published in 2007 and its implementation was enforced in 2011. After 7 years of implementation, the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) has revised MQF to ensure its relevancy/currency, according to dynamism of national and international higher education system. The revised version, MQF 2nd Edition is approved by the MQA Council Meeting in December 2017.