Data is confirming what we already know: recruiting is an imprecise activity, and degrees don’t communicate much about a candidate’s potential and fit. Employers need to know what a student knows and can do.

Something is clearly wrong when only 11% of business leaders — compared to 96% of chief academic officers — believe that graduates have the requisite skills for the workforce. It’s therefore unlikely that business leaders…

Malaysian Creative Industry: In A Nutshell

Creative Multimedia, Arts & Culture, and, Heritage, Where's our future?

With only 45,031 workers, creative industries gave Malaysia USD 2.7 worth of revenue, what is the magic formula?



Is it just timely or too late to talk about creative industry in Malaysia?…

Today, more than ever before, technology plays an important role in society. It is changing and will continue to change every aspect of how we live. It is changing the way we communicate, the way we do business, how we learn and teach, and even it’s changing the way our brains work.

Because the arrival of technology, the learning environment is changing. Students have more options than they ever would have imagined. In olden…

Massive Open Online Courses, known under the widely used acronym MOOCs, have taken the modern education world by storm, offering a wide variety of options for students worldwide. Their greatest advantage is, of course, the fact they are provided for free or at low prices, which is why both people with no official education and those with a university degree are readily embracing the opportunities.

Clearly, the rapid rise in…

How you present your eLearning content to your audience is critical. Engaging your learners requires a creative approach to visual design and, more often than not, effective online presentations are creative presentations. Luckily, there are several tools you can use to build your own presentation, such as Prezi, Aurasma, and Powtoon; all you need to do is bring in your fresh ideas. In this article, I´ll share 10 creative ideas for online presentations eLearning…

Creative Content Association Malaysia (CCAM) is an industry led government funded association of the leading content creators in Malaysia formed in 2012 for the express purpose of promoting and exporting local content and creative services to overseas markets and international broadcasters. This will be done by utilizing the latest digital technology, creativity, as well as by exploiting the unique cultural of Malaysia.…

Chapter 1·Concept and context of the creative economy

1.1 Evolving concepts and definitions

Fundamental to an understanding of the creative economy — what it comprises and how it functions in the economies of both developed and developing countries — are…

1.1.3 Cultural industries

The term “culture industry” appeared in the post-war period as a radical critique of mass entertainment by members of the Frankfurt school led by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, followed subsequently by writers such as Herbert Marcuse.4 At that time,…

Overview

The Creative Economy Report 2008 is the first study to present the United Nations

perspective on this emerging topic. It is an initiative of the partnership between UNCTAD

and the UNDP Special Unit for South-South Cooperation. Furthermore, it is a pioneer

example of the work being…