Keeping up with new technologies

EDUCATION is evolving at a very much faster pace. The current education landscape demands educators to be equipped with teaching methods, techniques and strategies to meet the needs of the 21st century learners.

Deputy Rector of the Institute of Teaching Education Malaysia, Dr Rusmini Ku Ahmad, said that learners today need to be equipped with communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creative skills to be competitive global players in a highly challenging world.

She was speaking at the closing ceremony of the Malaysian Technical Cooperation Programme (MTCP) 2017 at the English Language Teaching Centre (ELTC) in Nilai, Negri Sembilan.

The three-week course which ended recently, saw both local and international participants in attendance. Rusmini said for this year, the course focused on Online English Language Teaching (ELT) for trainers.

“I believe that through this programme, we can also create professional learning partnerships between the participating countries and ELTC.

“I am confident that such partnerships will yield numerous technology benefits beyond the tangible outcomes and output of this programme.

“We expect this programme to enable participants to implement the skills learnt into their own practice and to disseminate what they had learnt to other ELT practitioners in their respective countries,” she said.

She added that the MTCP course was undertaken in collaboration with the Education Ministry. It focuses on the need to keep up with the emerging 21st century technologies.

“The urgency to keep pace with technological advancements is indeed vital to produce 21st century learners who are able and capable of being key players in the workforce,” she said. – Bernama