The challenges in transferring technical knowledge: A Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS case study

This paper reports a case study on the challenges of transferring technical knowledge. The study focuses on the challenges of transferring technical knowledge between the lecturers to the students in programming courses conducted at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP). The purpose of this study is to present academics and practitioners insights on the challenges of transferring technical knowledge to learners. Programming lecturers are considered as a person with technical knowledge because they have the ability to explain theoretically and practically technical concepts and also has theoretical ability to face a technical problem, analyze it, describe it and solve it.