ASSALAMUALAIKUM W.B.T
So, this is my reflection on the second virtual microbes. Oh ya! It has been a semester not writing in this blog. (haha)
As usual, the positive feedback of this program is the students capable of co-operating and interacting with other people virtually. I also able to widen my circle of friends through this program as this is the collaboration program with UM and UKM. Besides, they also will be exposed by several websites that are useful for the discussion session such as Zoom, Padlet, OpenLearning and Blendspace.
Instead of having the positive feedback I also want to state the problems during completing this program.
As all of us know, there are 6 days of not having electrical supply, it’s hard for us to make this LR. We have to go to somewhere else which have electrics to complete this LR including IOI City Mall. (haha).
Next, the problem with UM students. They just join till the second discussion (padlet), it makes us hard to do this LR as we divided the task to them too. I’m sorry if I’m wrong but I think if they can’t join this program until the end, it’s better for them not to join this program at all. This is because, the task were divided to them, but they doesn’t complete it because they thought they just involve until discussion 2. So at the end, their task have to be completed by us, we have to search for journals and paraphrase all then cite the LR at the last minute. So, it’s better for them not to join at all as they don't contribute anything to the group. They don’t get any marks but we have to be evaluated, it is just not fair for us.
For improvement, I would suggest that the collaboration with other universities must be with the university that evaluates their students just like us, so that the students will do this LR by heart. They won’t do this LR slothfully if they were given marks. Just like us, we did this LR by heart because this LR will contribute 15-20% of our marks.
Besides, I think LR is not a good thing to do in VM. This is because, not all student able to do it in a group if we can’t sit down and discuss, check and finalize the LR face to face with our group members. I think, for the next program I would suggest doing VM just like previous VM, it easier for us as LR is too complicated to do it virtually. I’m sorry to say that but I said this for a better VM next time.
Lastly, the collaboration of university must be until the end of this program as it will not trouble other group members.
That’s all from me. I’m sorry and thank you J
