Toyohashi University of Technology,
Institute for Global Network Innovation in Technology
Education

News from Penang（Vol.15 2018/3/7）

Reports

Lectures at Polytechnics
Iori Nakaoka, National Institute of Technology, Ube College
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These are services that can call a hire using aOutline

On January 15, National Center Test for University

smartphone. These are handy applications thatAdmissions was conducted in heavy snow. We

can know who and when will pick up if you

departed for Penang the night, arrived in Penang thespecify your current location and destination on

next morning and began preparations for lectures atthe map. Also, we can know the arrival time

PSP (Politeknik Seberang Perai), PTSB (Politeknik

after the ride. Incidentally, Grab and Uber are

Tuanku Sultanah Bahiyah) and USM (Universiti Sains

one of the businesses that provides a platformMalaysia) at TUT Penang. After that, we gave lectures

to support P2P type sharing. Such a businessat PSP on February 6 to 10 and at PTSB on February

has dominated the world in recent years and13 to 16.

there is Airbnb which is famous for a vacation
rentals support service as a similar business. I2.

Lecture preparation period

handled marketing theory in my lecture, so I
devised to introduce examples of such sharing

During the 3 weeks since I arrived in Malaysia, weconcentrated and adjusted with Polytechnic staff aboutbusiness,

Malaysia'sautomobileindustry,the classes of Introduction to Marketing Theory,

which has highly relationship to Japanese

which are highly relevant to lecture subjects in Japan.

companies, and things I noticed in Malaysia

In my case, the lectures at PSP and USM were decidedlife.

to implement two classes of “Introduction to3.

Marketing Theory”, which are highly relevant toLecture practicelecture subjects in Japan. In addition, I was decided toI introduced STP and 4Ps of marketing as

implement one class of the same subject andintroductory contents for the students of“Effective Strategies for Digital Entrepreneurship”

Semester 2 on PSP and the students ofwhich is one of subjects presented from PTSB as theSemester 4, 5 on PTSB. Both students werelectures in PTSB. I was pressed by the work due toextremely enthusiastic and I was able toparallel adjustment and preparation for classes.

progress the lecture very smoothly. TheyBy the way, we went to TUT Penang every

positively participated some activities

that

day from Recsam we stayed. Although bus

use the classroom white board, and replied

utilization can be considered as a way ofwhen I asked understanding or not. On bothtransportation, there is a big disadvantage that

the PSP and PTSB lectures, I was extremely

we cannot know when the bus will arrive

anxiety whether I could give satisfaction,

because there is no timetable system on the bus

because I gave lecture in a situation that I didin Penang. Therefore, we commuted to Penang

not know the level of knowledge on theschool using Grab and Uber every morning. Istudents. In the second lesson, I upgraded theused Uber even in New York, but Grab seemed

contents based on the students' feelings. As ato be spreading at the same level in Malaysia.

result, according to the opinion in the class1

questionnaire form, it seems that satisfaction
degree on the lecture was high. However, I
received much comment on English speech andit is a future problem. Many stuffs attended thelecture at PTSB, and they also made a note ofthe contents, so I thought that could provide
new information to the teachers as well as thestudents in Digital entrepreneurship class.
PTSB stuffs and I also exchanged eachE-learning site information. I was surprised

Picture 2: E-learning session at PTSB

that all professors are using the E-learning site.
By the way PTSB is in Kedah state in theMalay Peninsula, so we stayed there for a week.
During that period, my office was set up in thedepartment, and they have done me manykindnesses. The picture was taken when I went
to have a Cendol with the department's stuffs. I
would like to take this opportunity to express
my appreciation.
Picture 3: A scene with Cendol

Picture 1: With students at PSP2

Looking back over the past year
Iori Nakaoka, National Institute of Technology, Ube College
Before looking back on a year, I would like tomy lecture successfully.

introduce an awareness in activities at USM.

In future, we must return the achievements of thisThe lecture at the USM in late February, like thetraining to student guidance. As a student's tendency,

lecture with Polytechnic, the students' eagerness toalthough there are students who are strong in English

learn was very high. I talked about the introduction ofwords, listening and reading skills, I think there aremarketing theory for this year's first grader using

very few students who have excellent speaking ability.

many actual examples. Through this lecture I felt thatI believe that it is caused by less opportunities tothey had the ability to think practically against thespeak English. There are also many students who areactual things. The feature was the same as the students

not used to speaking in public. Therefore, I amof commerce department in polytechnic. As a result ofplanning to start making a mechanism to utilize

thinking about the reason in the last few days of

English little by little in the lecture. In addition, I

staying in Malaysia, I came up with the hypothesis

would like to have opportunities that students

that it is based on mechanism to sell foods and goods

introduce in English in some cases. Also, I fully

on a daily basis as part of entrepreneur education. I

support when students present at international

think that practical skills can be gained byconference.

accumulating

experienceon

theflow

fromNIT, Ube college is one of the colleges whereprocurement to sales, so I learned as a businessinternational exchange is popular, but I’m going toadministration course stuff.

start with familiar opportunity.

In addition, I was asked to do a seminar at USM byProf. Hooy as a dean of the department, so I presented
on recent research results. It was a meaningful time
because some doctoral students and several teachers
participated in the seminar and it was an opportunity
to exchange opinions. I would like to take thisopportunity to thank all of the stuff and students.
When my participation in global FD was decided,
my heart that had no experience of long stay on
foreign country was anxiety because I had to be able

Picture 1: Seminar in USM

to lecture in English in Malaysia after a year. However,thanks to the training at TUT and QC and the strong
support of professors in Malaysia, I was able to finish

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