The UiTM Webitors team from the Academy of Language Studies (APB), Universiti Teknologi MARA, Cawangan Pulau Pinang (UiTMCPP) has managed to win a Silver Award in the recent International Invention & Innovative Competition (InIIC Series 1/2020) on 18 April 2020. With the theme ‘Changing Lives in Brilliant Ways’, the competition sought innovative, cost-effective and practical solutions to accessibility-related barriers in the community and invited all professionals and students to use their creativity, working individually or in teams with industry, government and community partners, to identify an accessibility-related issue, and create an innovative and unique solution to it. With the combination efforts made by 4 UiTMCPP APB English lecturers (Mr. Noor Azli bin Affendy Lee, Dr. Mah Boon Yih, Pn. Suzana Ab. Rahim and Ms. Marni Jamil), the UiTM Webitors managed to enter their own innovation called the UiTM Webitors’ English for Second Language Learners’ Autonomy Platform (UiTM WESLLAP) under the Professional – Social Sciences category (A1). The website for English language learning is created in response to the induction of UiTM into the Education 5.0 era and this creation helps to push the department of Academy of Language Studies forward in championing Education 5.0 that focuses on open online learning and linked websites with innovative delivery. The novelty of UiTM WESLLAP is it serves as a singular hub, freely accessible and easy to navigate for students and anyone else who wants to improve their English skills in Malaysia and UiTM, specifically.
Due to the recent Movement Control Order (MCO) in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic spread in Malaysia which started on 18 March 2020, the InIIC Series 1/2020 competition was held virtually in which competitors had to upload their video presentation on YouTube and submit the YouTube video link and virtual poster to the competition committee and juries for the judging process. The judging criteria was based on product novelty, benefits to users and society, commercialisation value, publication, award and intellectual property. The UiTM Webitors team managed to design and develop the UiTM WESLLAP and taught UiTM semester one diploma students from three different classes on learning how to use the website throughout the first 3 weeks of the current semester (March 2020 to June 2020) before the MCO was announced and implemented. A survey on the users’ perceptions in using the innovation was conducted and its results were included in the competition video and poster as well as a full paper for a chapter in the InIIC Series 1/2020 eBook titled ‘Changing Lives in Brilliant Ways (Series 1)’ that will be published at the end of April 2020.
The video presentation can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRAi60B4WqY
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