期刊名称:International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN:2222-6990
出版年度:2019
卷号:9
期号:5
页码:756-760
DOI:10.6007/IJARBSS/v9-i5/6004
语种:English
出版社:Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要:Personal Financial Planning is technical subject offered by actuarial science program in preparation for the professional actuarial examination under the Society of Actuary (SOA) as well as getting students to understand the monetary aspect of the current financial system. The present methods of teaching the subject underscore the difficulty students faced in trying to master the subject matters. Major difficulties included difficulties of the subject contents, limited face to face discourse with lecturers, and time limitation on teaching the subject contents. A new platform using the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is considered to address the above issues to ensure students have assessed to understand the subject in a more conducive manner. MOOCs provides a new era of learning style with various learning methods. Using attractive notes with the aid of video, animation and variety of activities promote better learning environment adaptively. It is accessible anytime, anywhere and gives flexibility to students in managing their own learning routine. Therefore, this study illustrated and described the development of Introduction of Personal Financial Planning using MOOCs. On top of that, MOOCs have been a beneficial platform that gives a new perspective towards the effective learning approach.