International Summit on Employability and Soft Skills (ISESS2017) 23-25 March 2017

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    Strategizing Competencies via Open and Distance Learning (ODL)
    (Daffodil International University, 2017-03-22) Idrus, Rozhan Mohammed
    The digital educational landscape is now ubiquitous to the point that we need to redesign the teaching and learning environment. Leveraging on technology, we now approach the concept of open and distance learning and addresses pertinent issues in employability as learners have the affordances of constructing their own resume of competencies and become job creators instead of job seekers. This paper analyses the current underpinning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and coupling that with innovative pedagogical approaches such as a multidisciplinary based learning to propose a strategy for competencies of the next generation.
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    To Post or Not to Post: An Empirical Investigation on the Factors Influencing Student’s Knowledge Sharing Behaviour Through Facebook
    (Daffodil International University, 2017-03-22) Mahmud, Imran; Md. Shohel Arman; Jahan, Nusrat; Sadia, Farzana; Rumel, Rayhanul Islam
    Since the number of posts and social relationships are implanted in the largest social network sites, the use of Facebook is increasing, and the number of knowledge sharing behaviour of individuals is increasing as well. This paper aims to illustrate the relationship between the constructs of social cognitive theory and social exchange theory on students’ knowledge sharing through Facebook. This research was administrated to 101 students using self-administrative survey questionnaire. Structural equation modelling technique was employed to examine the hypothesized relationship between the variables. The findings of this study will help researchers to understand why students choose to engage in social network, specifically Facebook, to share knowledge. This research will also assist educators and practitioners to understand the factors behind knowledge sharing behaviour of the students. Most previous studies have examined in knowledge sharing attitude or intention in industry settings. This study is conducted in educational settings and particularly focused on the influence of institutional climate and outcome expectations on students’ knowledge sharing attitude.
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    Integrating Language Learning through CLIL in Tertiary Level Literature Classes in Bangladesh
    (Daffodil International University, 2017-03-22) Kamal, Asif; Begum, Fatema
    In the tertiary level literature classes in Bangladesh, majority students with Bangla as 1st language considerably struggle to comprehend lessons in English which is either second language (SL) or lingua franca (LF) for them. In this case, adapting Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), which puts equal emphasis on subject teaching and language teaching for enhancing both the skill of communicating and transferring the content knowledge, appear to be more effective than just conducting lecture based content teaching. With existing skill of English, for the contemporary aspiring graduates of BA in English program in Bangladesh, it seems to be rather difficult to cope up with the original body of English literature, and in most cases, turns to be less successful in meeting the objectives and goals of the program. The agenda of this research is to ascertain whether adapting task-oriented use of literary materials integrating content and language teaching in tertiary-level English literature classes in Bangladesh is more effective in developing students’ comprehension level of literary contents as well as enhancing their English language skills simultaneously. The adopted research method is basically qualitative in nature based on qualitative data collected from a trial of CLIL lesson, class observation, questionnaire survey etc.
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    Empowering tertiary level students to solve their own study related problems to improve performance and prevent drop-outs
    (Daffodil International University, 2017-03-22) Nishat, Nazia; Khalid Been, Md. Badruzzaman
    Students progressing to tertiary level education often have many problems – problems that may affect their studies. In addition to other problems, they may suffer from low self-esteem, which in turn may result from another set of problems, negative parents, negative peers, past poor results, inability to get into a school of choice, etc. Those who have to live away from home to attend a university could have their own set of problems. To provide support many universities have counseling offices to help the students tackle their problems. The counseling officers often give repeated appointments in an attempt to help solve these problems. At Daffodil International University (DIU), a relatively new private university, more than 75% of the students come from a rural background, i.e., they have had to move to the urban metropolitan city of Dhaka for the purpose of their tertiary level education. These students have additional problems like adjusting to urban life, missing home, managing all household chores by themselves, even a culture shock given the nature of urban life, etc., all of which may affect their studies. Being a new university, DIU has an international division that looks after incoming students but does not employ a student counselor. So at DIU we experimented with a collaborative approach to help students solve their own problems. From three different departments, Software Engineering, English and Law we took students with a low CGPA (<2.5) and held a collaborative problem solving workshop. The students were guided in a collaborative environment where individual problems were first identified anonymously by working in pairs and possible solutions were presented by the students themselves by collaboratively working in groups. The paper proposes a model of how the approach can be beneficial, shares application of the model and how many in the sample have ultimately graduated with a better CGPA or currently have improved their CGPA. The perception of effectiveness of the collaborative guidance model was also measured by taking feedback from students. Finally, the collaborative problem solving approach is compared with the traditional counseling approach. The collaborative approach benefits students by empowering them to solve study related problems by themselves, develop self-esteem and prevent dropping out.
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    Poor Proficiency of English Language among Tertiary Level Students in Bangladesh and its Effect on Employability: An Investigation to Find Fact and Solution
    (Daffodil International University, 2017-03-22) Fahima, Nahian Fyrose; Majumder, Subrata; Ahmed, Tanvir
    English is unanimously recognized as the second language in the world and no one can deny this truth. People believed that having English proficiency is the key especially for developing countries, which can bring success by ensuring access to education, business and technology. Bangladesh is a developing country of about 160 million people. A notable number of students are perusing higher education, especially in tertiary level, in more than 150 public and private universities in Bangladesh. The medium of instruction of tertiary level is English and the majority of our students complete their primary and secondary education in Bangla medium. For this reason at the beginning of the university life, the atmosphere is new to them though students have to complete at least 14 courses to acquire proficiency in English. After getting tertiary education certificate, students wish to get a good job in the market but unfortunately most of them fail because of poor English proficiency. Our study finds the students of public and private universities (n=150) and education experts (n=30) in Bangladesh. We prepared two sets of questionnaire based on literature review to collect data to identify the reasons of and solutions to overcome these problems. After statistical analysis the study suggests certain remedial measures to develop the proficiency in English to ensure employment according to student’s desire. We have got some ideas and suggestions which need to implement to ensure employability for Bangladeshi students.
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    I-STREAM Camp: A Creative, Fun and Hands-on Community Outreach Programme for Graduate Employability
    (Daffodil International University, 2017-03-22) Noh, Nor Azila; Basri, Hassan; Dahan, Awang Mat; Salleh, Sheikh Hussain Shaikh; Latif, Abdul; Zubaidi, Ahmad
    Graduate employability has become a global concern due to the significant decline in the employment prospects of the fresh graduates. In Malaysia, there is a significant decline in the employment of the fresh graduates, where it is reported that 161,000 of new graduates are currently unemployed. In order to solve this crisis, the government introduces several policies such as the Malaysia’s 2050 National Transformation Policy (TN50), Firdaus 2050, National Blue Ocean Strategy (NBOS) and the National Graduate Employability Blueprint 2012-2017. These policies capitalise on the collaboration among the institutions of higher learning, government agencies and private sectors to provide initiatives and programmes that are high impact, low cost and rapidly executed. As part of this initiative, we propose a creative, fun and hands-on community outreach programme for graduate employability called the I-STREAM camp. I-STREAM stands for Islamic Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. It is a comprehensive and holistic education for Muslim school-going children in rural Malaysia that integrates both modern technology and spiritual Islamic knowledge. The programme has five modules which are Introduction to TN50 and Firdaus 2050, Neurolinguistic Programming, Islamic Arts and Religious Knowledge, Islamic STEM, and the fourth Industrial Revolution. Here, the undergraduates will polish their hard skills and soft skills by working hand in hand with the industries and the government agencies. I-STREAM camp is a unique and novel community outreach programme, which will stimulate deeper learning for graduate employability as well as motivating them to strive to become icons for the Muslim ummah.
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    Graduates’ Employability and Importance of Communication Skills: A Study on Public University in Bangladesh
    (Daffodil International University, 2017-03-22) Rahman, Marzia; Debnath, Ananna
    English has been included in the education system of Bangladesh for a long time. However, after getting twelve years education in English, learners average competency in spoken English at tertiary level is not yet up to the standard which is a consequence of negligence of teaching speaking at every level of education (Imam, Ropum & Arif, 2013). Unlike the private universities, the public universities of Bangladesh hardly give emphasis on communication skills to make the students able to compete in the job market. Consequently, graduates are found to have problems in communicating in English and they feel shy to speak in English (Azizul, 2010 in Tahereen, 2015) and often in the job market their communication ability fails to impress the interview board. This paper aims to find out whether the public universities offer any Spoken English course and to what extent communication skills is given emphasis on the other compulsory disciplinary courses. Two public universities inside Dhaka have been selected to find out the answers of the central research questions. Interview questions for the teachers and classroom observation checklist have been used to collect data. As a theoretical framework this paper has used Brown and Yule’s framework of three types of speech (1983). It is found that in public universities most of the departments do not offer specific spoken courses and even they do not give any emphasis on spoken skills on other disciplinary courses which create adverse effects on graduates’ employability.
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    A New Approach of Portable Smart Table for Interactive Classroom
    (Daffodil International University, 2017-03-22) Das, Remon; Uddin, Mohammad Rajib; Islam, Md. Maruful; Rashid, Humayun; Robin, Mohammad Sijanur Rahaman
    Most of the entity in the world has been changed except educational materials. Today’s classroom materials are same as those innovated in 1800s. With the development of technology, transformation of current classroom materials is the most convenient needs. In this paper a complete smart table for interactive classroom is proposed as a design. It is a combination of analogue and digital technology. Portability, LED screen access by central software, calculator combined with watch, power point for electronic device, USB, Head phone and brainstorming by creating group through central software are the main features of this product. By the use of individual LED screen, the student can see the question paper; books, slides and any type of video lectures which exclude the use of paper in classroom. By the use of question answer button in the table, the communication between teacher and student becomes more interactive and effective.
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    Graduate Employability: Industry Requirements and Responsibilities of Institutions of Higher Education.
    (Daffodil International University, 2017-03-22) Rana, S.M. Sohel; Akter, Asma
    Research on employability skills has gained much attention as employers now are concerned about finding good workers who not only have basic academic skills but also higher order thinking skills like learning, reasoning, thinking creatively, decision making and problem solving. This study attempts to investigate the core skills required by the industry from the graduates. Through extensive literature review, the study identifies soft skills, problem solving skills, functional skills, leadership skills and academic reputation as the employability skills of graduates. For the purpose of the study, data have been collected with a structured questionnaire survey from the CEOs and HR managers of some selected companies in Bangladesh. Collected data have been analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique with smart PLS software 2.0M3. The findings reveal that the industry experts have placed utmost importance on the soft skills of the graduates followed by problem solving skills, leadership skills and functional skills. Thus, this study provides insights into the value of skills and their application from the perspective of the employers. The broader stakeholder understanding of employability skills can assist institutions of higher education to equip their graduates as per the demand of the industry. As this study has explored the skills of effective graduates from the opinions of industry experts, it provides the taxonomy of graduate skills from demand side view. The outcome of this study might pave the ways for the universities to develop new guidelines so as to make their teaching effective which consequently leads to the development of employability skills among the graduates
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    Industry-Academia Collaboration: Conflicts and Strategies to Stimulate Innovation and Employability
    (Daffodil International University, 2017-03-22) Zamal, Md. Fahad Bin; Begum, Afsana; Rawshan, Lamisha
    Industry-Academia relationship is an essential element to generate innovation and employability. Systematic and coordinated approaches are absent in most industry and academy relationship which brings unsuccessful collaboration among them. Current trend of relationship between industry and academia failed to impact on revenue generation, hence was not able to create employment opportunity. Identification of the gaps between industry and academy will allow more outcome based research and innovation. Most research collaborations nowadays are ad hoc or opportunistic which often fail to meet the expectation and difficult to sustain in competitive world. Successful collaboration can be established if we are able to recognize potential sources of conflict and ensure that they are addressed properly. In this paper we address those gaps by presenting a systematic review of the literature on industry-academy relationship. Here we investigate on areas of conflicts, suggest strategies to overcome those and identify the driving forces that can stimulate the relation between industry and academy.