TY - JOUR T1 - MOOCs and Youth Employment Strategy AU - Wahid, Ratnaria AU - Sani, Mohd. Azizuddin Mohd. JO - The Social Sciences VL - 10 IS - 7 SP - 1726 EP - 1731 PY - 2015 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1818-5800 DO - sscience.2015.1726.1731 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2015.1726.1731 KW - higher education KW -youth KW -industry KW -MOOCs KW -virtual education AB - The new development of virtual educational delivery feature Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) where educational institutions are able to offer courses that are taught and assessed on the internet with students afforded the opportunity to follow courses on mobile phones as well as computers. By way of document and policy analysis, this study explains the causes of youth unemployment in Malaysia and how the Malaysian government policies towards the use of information communication technology in the Malaysian higher education, particularly MOOCs could be used to address some causes of youth employment problem. This study reiterates the importance of harmonizing both higher education as well as industry involvement in order to support MOOCs potential towards access to information and encouraging creativity and innovation in youth human resource development. ER -