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The purpose of this paper is to highlight the significance of considering the organizational ecosystem in implementing wikis for knowledge sharing.The findings suggest that a prerequisite of an effective wiki is the appreciation of the factors that make up the organizational ecosystem; technical and organizational factors are variable elements of the ecosystem that can significantly impact the wiki; and the task of re-aligning an existing wiki taking into consideration these factors can be complex.The case study was based on knowledge sharing in a public project management organization, thereby limiting the generalizability to other organizations. Organizations which are keen to adopt wiki as part of their knowledge management initiative need to contextualize their wiki initiative within the organizational context.This research contributes to extending the knowledge-base of the factors that impact the effectiveness of wikis for knowledge sharing by linking the wiki to the broader organizational factors.

This study aims to evaluate the implementation of the Integrated Special Education Program-Learning Disabilities (ISEP-LD) in secondary schools in Peninsular Malaysia. This study examines the contribution of ISEP-LD (input) components toward goal achievement (product). This study found two important sources of input, human resources, and non-human resources. The data showed that the non-human resources input is the key aspect that assists special education teachers to achieve teaching and learning goals, which are the inservice training (IST), scheduling, parent and community, as well as financial support. On the other hand, for the human resource input, only the knowledge aspect contributed to the teaching and learning process of special education teachers. The education of students with special needs (SNS) has never been neglected by the government. Therefore, this study provides information to the government so that the integrated special education program could be continued with improvement by focusing on the regular in-service training for special education teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Special education transformation requires Special Education (SE) teachers to have competent skills, attitudes, and knowledge to provide the best education so that the potential of students with special needs (SNS) can be developed. However, SE teachers face challenges because these students suffer mental, emotional, behavioral, and sensory problems as well as physical. Therefore, this study aims to identify the level of skills, knowledge, and attitudes of teachers in implementing and conducting the Integrated Special Education Program - Learning Disabilities (ISEP-LD) in national secondary schools in peninsular Malaysia. A quantitative study was conducted on 409 teachers from 242 secondary schools implementing ISEP. Data were collected using a set of questionnaires containing 44 items. The data were analyzed descriptively using SPSS software to obtain the information on the research questions. The results found that the level of skills, knowledge, and attitudes of teachers in implementing ISEPLD was moderately high. Therefore, the findings of this study can provide valuable input to the MOE in providing appropriate courses and training for ISEP teachers to improve skills, knowledge, and attitudes in implementing the teaching and learning of SNS in schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Malaysian Nature Education in Preschool (MyNEPs) is an initiative to incorporate nature education in the preschool syllabus. It involves learning and hands-on practice in a natural environment setting on five nature elements (climate, flora, fauna, insects, and microbes). This research aims to assess the efficacy of the MyNEPs module towards preschool children through pre-, intervention, and post-assessment. This research adopted an experimental research design using quantitative approaches. A total of 29 preschool children from Bangi, Selangor were involved in this study. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics involving normality tests and paired sample t-test. The data normality was measured using the Shapiro-Wilk test, and the result indicated that the data is normally distributed where p=0.072 > 0.05. The overall t-test result shows significant differences (p=0.006) between pre- and post-achievement, with the total mean of post-test was higher with 35.90 than pre-test achievement with 33.59. This result indicated that this module significantly contributes to children's performance on nature prior to the intervention program. As a result, this study shows that the nature education program proposed has improved preschool children's knowledge of the natural environment. Nature education is essential to enhance creativity, problem-solving, and cognitive abilities, thus improving academic performance and setting a strong foundation for science and technology. Therefore, it is suggested that the MyNEPs module should be applied to all preschools premises in Malaysia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Government had drawn up various strategies to enculture the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in urban and rural schools. However, existing studies indicated that ICT usage among teachers are still at a moderate level and focused on similar school's locations. The purpose of this study is to identify the difference of knowledge, skills and attitude in using ICT among teachers in urban and rural areas. This study is a cross-sectional survey and used questionnaires as the main instrument. Data was collected from 1440 teachers from national secondary schools (SMK) in urban and rural areas and later analysed using Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA). The study found that there is a significant difference in knowledge and skills of teachers in using ICT in urban and rural areas. On the other hand, there is no significant difference in the attitude of teachers in using ICT in urban and rural areas. The study indicated that the Malaysian Ministry of Education (MOE) needs to improve teacher's knowledge and skills in using ICT at rural area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The variety of planning and design solutions occasionally turns into an underpinning factor for the defects and maintenance issues in built forms. Defects and maintenance that emerges from deficient design indicate that the design has not been conceded in the perception of quality. Reviewing the nature of deficient designs and resulting maintenance problems in various types of built forms revealed that housing sector is most effective of this phenomenon. The reason could be set as; housing planning, design, and construction are a most practiced activity to address the living needs of the ever-growing world population. This research considered that design quality of housing is severely affected in developing countries. In this regard housing standards and bylaws plays a minor role to ensure the housing quality in developing regions. However, it is notable that, in developing regions, the majority of populations have easy access to mobile communication technology. Therefore, it is possible to use mobile technology to educate the people about quality issues of housing and to help them to evaluate the quality of proposed or existing housing. At present, the use of mobile technology has not only heightened the need for IT knowledge but also extend the capabilities of many designers/architects and builders. Hence, there is a niche to develop an integrated hub that could appraise the function of each professional involved in housing processes. This research has established a criterion that, the mobile technology can help common people to understand the quality of house/housing and to ascertain it. The results of the research have surfaced a model of mobile application that could be used later to prepare the real-time mobile application to work as a "design quality assessment tool." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2007, the QLASSIC was introduced to assess the quality in projects workmanship which included landscaping works and due to this, many elements of non-compliance were recorded all round. The purpose of the paper is to discuss the possibility of why non-compliance in the QLASSIC assessments continued, which had opened up several subjects' worth re-examining. A combination of mixed qualitative and quantitative research methods were employed. Critical literature review in revisiting the landscape workmanship's quality definition and construct was conducted by using the Atlas.Ti software. Meanwhile, QLASSIC data was obtained from the onsite certified third party quality assessor over a period of nine years, which began from 2007 until 2015. The findings suggested that problems of workmanship quality in landscape architecture works are quite significant. The tip of the iceberg tends to replicate that there is absence of recognised landscape workmanship assessment standards and best practices regarding landscape workmanship quality. Strategically, certification for landscape quality that encompasses the elements and assessment method is necessary as a way forward. Subsequently, it is also vital that the industry at large delivers a higher quality of physical landscape towards environmental sustainability. The construction workmanship quality should be measured through its very basic external work s elements in the construction industry through QLASSIC. Furthermore, this article provides insight on the Malaysian workmanship quality in landscape works of public construction projects for over nine years. It also pinpoints the gap in landscape workmanship quality that must be seriously considered for future projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]