Miri Vocational College empowering digitalised classrooms in its administration

Miri Vocational College (KV Miri), through its Coordination of Innovation and Cultivation of Research and Action Studies Unit, is currently empowering digitalised classrooms in all its administration areas.

College director John Atong said KV Miri had held an ‘Action Research Colloquium in Education’ to cultivate the culture of research and action studies among educators in the college in particular, and Sarawak in general.

“In this colloquium, we chose ‘Classroom Digitalisation’ as the theme in addition to other related sub-themes to provide high-momentum exposure and encouragement to educators to produce high-quality action studies and achieve the aspirations of the Ministry of Education and the state Ministry of Education, Innovation and Talent Development.

“Therefore, the collection of action research in this colloquium will be documented and journalised as one of the efforts to dignify worldclass education in Sarawak,” he said in his address for the ‘Sarawak Level Action Research Colloquium in Education’ at Pustaka Miri yesterday.

In providing exposure as well as the empowerment of classroom digitisation, John said the college had invited two speakers from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) and the Sarawak Department of Education who had extensive experience in the field of digitisation of the classroom and the field of action research to share good practices and useful findings to be shared during the colloquium.

He hoped KV Miri would be given another opportunity to organise similar scholarly programmes such as colloquiums, seminars or educational conferences in the coming years.

The college, he said, was keen on working with others and welcome joint organising of such events with various educational institutions in Sarawak; namely Unimas, Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Sarawak, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) Bintulu Campus, Teacher Education Institute Sarawak Campus and Pustaka Miri as strategic organising partners on a larger and high-impact level such as the national or international level.

He believed that through such cooperation and collaboration, they would be able to elevate the field of education to the international arena and also produce world-class educators and students, who were skilled in the digital world, in facing the challenges of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 and 5.0.