Education Reform as a Platform to Improve Interactions of the Engineering Students During Online Teaching and Learning at Higher Education Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The objective of this study was to outline the education reform approaches which could implement during online teaching and learning activities. The approaches consisted with online teaching, online mentoring /student induction programmes, online examinations and online guest lectures/webinars. The approaches practiced, were discussed in activity 1 to 7 in the methodology section. In addition, the outcome assessed using 4Rs model for reflection and PDCA cycle at the results and discussion section. In conclusion, this study showed that the approaches implemented assist to improve the interaction of the students.

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assessments education reform engineering education higher education online teaching

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