The crucial role of mentors in STEM education

The crucial role of mentors in STEM education

Published on 08 May 2019 , Expired on 30 Jun 2019

The Graduate Academic Competence Empowerment Programme (PKAS) at the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, of which Kalaivani is the director, has introduced an online mentoring platform formotivated mentors and mentees to be engaged virtually under a guided platform to share data and translate it into meaningful information that facilitate learning. “The e-mentoring system provides mentors a platform to exercise their mentoring by personalising the needs of each mentee by takingtheir learning abilities into consideration. The platform allows a mentor to facilitate five mentees at any point of time. Mentor and mentee are matched based on their interest areas stated upon their enrolment in the system,” (by Dr. Kalaivani Chellappan, PKAS Director) The e-mentoring system won a gold medal in the recent Malaysia Technology Expo 2019, The 18th International Expo on Inventions & Innovations in the STEM Mentor-Mentee Awards 2019 category. The STEM e-Mentoring Platform is an in-house design that was used to facilitate the UKM- Selangor State Education Department Mentor-Mentee programme, which ran from 2017 to last year.


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