Today’s story is about Samuel Ansong, our MSc IT Management alumni. We call him Sam Song. He has been passionate to purseu his PhD degree, unfortunately due to his commitment with his employer who has sponsored his MSc study, he has to say Goodbye (temporarily I hope) to UTM and went back to Ghana. Sometimes…
PhD Progress Meeting with Irliana
PhD journey is different from one to other student. It is a unique experience. Irliana did her MSc Computer Science by research under my supervision. I always admire her motivation, confidence and perseverance in her learning journey. She is working full time and studying part time AND she pays her tuition fees on her own….
Online Workshop: Mendeley Reference Manager Software
Alhamdulillah, I had a great session with UTM Postgraduate students sharing on usage of Mendeley Reference Manager and Mendeley Cite for managing references while writing thesis and research articles. I managed to capture some screens of the participants during the starting of the session. It feels good to look at the faces and feel that…
PhD Progress Meeting
Today I had a meeting with Dr Norasnita (main Supervisor) and Lina for her PhD progress update. Lina has graduated MSc IT Management at the School of Computing just last year. Oh Yes, her graduation ceremony was online! Congratulations Lina for receiving the Best Student Award during the ceremony. Alhamdulillah, great supervision from Dr Norasnita….
IIUM PhD External Examiner
Alhamdulillah for the opportunity given by IIUM to examine their student’s PhD thesis entitled : THE ROLE OF E-SERVICE QUALITY IN PROPELLING BRAND ATTACHMENT AND WILLINGNESS TO PAY MORE. Date / Day : 11 March 2021/ Thursday Time : 9.00 a.m.(Malaysia Time) Venue : Video Conferencing (via GOOGLE MEET) Student is Gul-E-Rana from Pakistan and an academician in Saudi….
Gamification in Paper Review
This is the first time I got points for reviewing a journal article. Yes this is gamification in paper review. This journal is one of my favourite journals in the area of e-Health and it is categorised as Q1 journal indexed in Web of Science. I was surprised and at the same time very excited…
Bibliometric Analysis Workshop
We had a 3-day break for Chinese New Year holidays in Johor. I have decided to join this online workshop. It was a very beneficial and interesting workshop in which I gained new knowledge specifically on: The basics of Bibliometric Analysis Using the Harzings’s Publish or Perish software for getting detailed data for the bibliomteric…
UUM PhD External Examiner
Alhamdulillah for the opportunity given to be the external examiner for Murtaja Ali Saare Almzrae for his PhD thesis entitled ADOPTION FACTORS MODEL OF MOBILE HEALTH APPLICATION FOR OLDER ADULTS.
GERAK!
Alhamdulillah so happy to moderate this session. A good sharing session by 2 AHIBS lecturers on their efforts to being more healthy and losing weight. Both have their own style and strategy. 1. Dr Mahadi focused on nutrition and having balanced meal and snacking everyday. The program is 5 meals a day. Dr Mahadi has…