• DocumentCode
    3314146
  • Title

    E-Rakan Universiti: A Portal for bridging knowledge and digital divide among the varsity and the community

  • Author

    Razak, Norizan Abdul

  • Author_Institution
    E-Community Res. Center, Univ. Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    8-11 Aug. 2009
  • Firstpage
    429
  • Lastpage
    432
  • Abstract
    The objective of E-Rakan University Portal is to develop a common platform for communication between the members of varsity and the community off-campus. As the university is the rich source of knowledge and housed the best brain and experts in different areas, the community off-campus should be given opportunities to tap these information and reach the experts without many barriers. E-Rakan University Portal provide services and information related to e-counseling, which contain topics such as education, career, lifestyle, health and religion. It also provides information based on user-generated content and based on the needs of the communities. E-Rakan University Portal also provide short learning modules together with communication facilities such as blog and Q&A. The impact of the portal is to help to bridge the knowledge and digital divide between the community who are unable to continue their studies in campus.
  • Keywords
    computer aided instruction; content management; portals; community off-campus; digital divide; e-Rakan Universityi portal; learning module; user-generated content; varsity member; Bridges; Education; Engineering profession; Information services; Innovation management; Internet; Portals; Qualifications; User-generated content; Web sites; E-Rakan Universiti; bridging digital divide; community; lifelong learning; portal;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Science and Information Technology, 2009. ICCSIT 2009. 2nd IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4519-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4520-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCSIT.2009.5234676
  • Filename
    5234676