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HELLO! I am a Professor of Food Technology at the School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and current Director of Centre for Academic Excellence (CDAE), USM.

I've been teaching for almost 24 years. I'm very passionate about learning and education. I believe our role as educators goes beyond transmitting knowledge — our role is to nurture our students, the future nation builders, to become lifelong learners — to teach them the skills of 'learn how to learn' and to teach them the appreciation and the love for knowledge.

As Socrates said,

I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think.

More about my teaching & research here:
http://www.profkarim.com/

My blog:
http://onestoplearning.blogspot.com/.

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Assalamualaikum & Good Day everybody..

Welcome to Kursus PnP 1/2018. My name is Azidah a lecturer from School of Educational Studies, cum the Deputy Director of CDAE. Before joining USM. I taught Graphic Design & Multimedia in Politeknik Johor Bahru (+-3.5 years). Then I left PJB to do my PhD in University of Canterbury, New Zealand. I started teaching in USM on May 2018. So this year will be my 10th years in USM.

I'm a person who love teaching so much. For me teaching is my passion and my life. However, we as educators should also look at the term 'teaching' closely..  Do we have to actually 'teach' our students??

Alhamdulillah I have been awarded with the Anugerah Pengajaran in the Anugerah Akademik Negara ke 10 in 2017. :-)

My website is: http://www.azidahaz.com/

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Assalamu'alaikum dan salam sejahtera. :)
Saya, Norliza dari CDAE.
Sedia berkhidmat.
Selamat berkursus kepada tuan/puan.

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Hi everybody. I’m polymeric chemist at School of Chemical Sciences. My current research interests are in the field of polymeric materials regarding it synthesis, fabrication, characterisation and properties especially in opto-electronic application.

The prophet Muhammad SAW said “…The best of person is the most useful for others,….” [HR Thabrani].

Thus, I believe that each of us has certain functions to uphold the organization's mission. We are a basic function of the other functions of this organization.  Each person with a definite function, combined with another person, will be able to create an organization with certain characteristics that are desired. Like the polymeric materials which do not exist without its monomer. Also, no P & P program if no participants has attend even a goal has already been set.  I want to be the useful person.

“Fundamental is core, Technology is derivatives and Sync” Although, we are not GOD, but we are the creators of what we want because we are given the choice.

More about my Research:

https://scholar.google.com.my/citationsuser=16NPwO8AAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Muhammad_Bisyrul_Hafi_Othman

https://orcid.org/my-orcid.org/0000-0003-1443-622X

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36344955600

http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-2172-2013

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Assalamualaikum dan Salam sejahtera semua!

Saya Zanna dari CDAE. Saya akan membantu tuan/puan sepanjang 9 hari berkursus. Jangan malu-malu untuk meminta bantuan yer 😉

Salam perkenalan dari saya dan selamat berkursus!

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Hello fellow colleagues. I am Puay from River Engineering and Urban Drainage Research Centre (REDAC). I am a lecturer at REDAC.

My field of research / interest are : computational fluid dynamics (CFD), open channel hydraulics, rheology of fluids and Sustainable Urban Drainage system (SUDs).

Prior to my coming to REDAC, I was a lecturer in the Department of Urban Management in Kyoto University before joining REDAC in 2014. I could see huge differences in teaching style as well as students attitude between Kyoto University and USM, and I am looking forward to share it with all of you in the coming P&P session.

Besides improving my teaching skill, I am also looking forward to make new friends.

I believe that "fundamental is everything" in learning and "knowledge without imagination is incomplete".

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Assalamualaikum and Salam Sejahtera. I am Syazwani Drani from School of Social Sciences.

My research interest mainly focus on Homeless, Social Work Education, Community Development and Social Welfare.

I'm very happy dealing with student. I hope that i can give the best what i can  and also cultivate ethical virtues including respectfulness, compassion, and integrity.

I want to improved myself, teaching skill and get close with new friends.

"you can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep reading the last one"

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Assalamualaikum dan Salam Sejahtera. Terlebih dahulu, saya memohon keizinan menggunakan bahasa ibunda kecintaan kita, bahasa Malaysia.

Saya Mohd Syahmir bin Alias bin Hassan bin Baginda. Merupakan salah seorang tenaga akademik dari Bahagian Falsafah dan Tamadun, Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan.

Bidang pengkhususan saya ialah Epistemologi, Metodologi Penyelidikan Islam, Pemikiran Islam dan Falsafah Sains. Kursus yang diajar antaranya ialah Tamadun Islam dan Tamadun Asia (TITAS), Pengantar Falsafah dan Etika.

Sebagai ahli akademik, saya berhasrat memberi kesedaran akan pentingnya falsafah dalam kehidupan manusia yang bertamadun umumnya dan pelajar USM khususnya, sudah pastinya melalui medium penyelidikan dan penyebaran ilmu (penerbitan dan pengajaran).

Saya berharap melalui kursus ini, sebagai seorang pendidik, saya dapat mempelajari kaedah-kaedah yang membantu saya menarik minat pelajar sama ada daripada aliran sains dan sastera agar menghargai dan meminati apa jua bidang ilmu, khususnya falsafah, induk segala ilmu.

"Sekiranya tiada anda berfalsafah, maka bersedialah anda difalsafahi pihak lainnya."

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Assalamualaikum and Hello. I am Herni Halim from School of Civil Engineering, USM.

My research interest:
- Environmental Engineering
- Noise Pollution

I have been teaching courses related to my research interest for the past 2 semesters. I enjoy sharing knowledge with students and help them to understand new topics. I believe there is always room for improvement in teaching.

I want to improve my teaching skills from this PnP course. Seeing my colleagues started using different teaching techniques after attending this course makes me want to acquire the skills and knowledge for the benefit of the students.

The power of exposure - when you're exposed to new things, you begin to grow as a person.

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Assalamualaikum dan Salam Sejahtera. Saya berhijrah dan kini menjadi sebahagian daripada tenaga pengajar di Pusat Pengajian Pendidikan Jarak Jauh semenjak 13 bulan yang lalu. Saya telah mengajar hampir 20 tahun dalam bidang Antropologi dan Sosiologi.
Minat dan kecenderungan saya lebih menjurus kepada Antropologi budaya dan pengkhususan saya adalah dalam bidang ethnografi, kekeluargaan, perkahwinan dan kekerabatan/kinship.
Peranan seorang pendidik dalam era Industry 4.0 yang menggabungkan  “artificial intelligence” (AI) dan 'internet of thing' (IOT) begitu jelas telah mempengaruhi corak kehidupan masyarakat pada masa kini.  Justeru ia menuntut perubahan dan penyesuaian dilakukan agar  masyarakat manusia boleh bergerak mengikut rentak kemajuan Industy 4.0 dan dalam masa tidak mengabaikan unsur kemanusian gar kedua-duanya dapat seiringan.
Diharapkan melalui kurus yang akan berlangsung ini dapat memperlengkapkan saya untuk menguasai teknik-teknik pengajaran dan pembelajaran yang bersifat kontemporari dan bersesuaian dengan keperluan dan kehendak generasi penuntut pada masa kini.

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Assalamualikum wbt.
Hello everyone,
I'm attached to School of Educational Studies, USM.  Currently, I'm teaching courses related to Educational Mangement and Leadership. The main focus of research is teachers'  organizational behavior, educational management, and leadership.  I hope that through this course I will gain knowledge on how to be an excellent academic staff that can blend the latest teaching techniques to make my teaching and supervision meaningful to my future students and USM.
I would like to share a quote from our beloved Prophet  Muhammad (pbuh)
: God does not look at your forms and possessions but he looks at your hearts and your deeds.

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Salam Sejahtera and Good day to all my fellow colleagues!

I'm Weng, joined River Engineering and Urban Drainage Research Centre (REDAC) in USM Engineering Campus since November 2016 with research focus areas in Stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs) and Urban Drainage Management. I was the Congress Event Manager for 37th IAHR World Congress 2017 with USains Holding and I'm also a certified trainer in Singapore and Malaysia, conducting sustainability, EHS management systems and soft skills training. Prior to joining REDAC, I was a lecturer in Wawasan Open University and I'm passionate in both education and adult learning.

My philosophy of life is: NO HARM TRYING! You will never know what's your potential until you try something new.

I always believe that things can be done better with teamwork.  I look forward to gain something new and get to know all of you in the upcoming P&P class.

Let's be friend!
https://www.facebook.com/WengGoh1

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Assalamualaikum. Salam Sejahtera.

Nama saya ialah Muhammad Zuhair Zainal. Saya merupakan pensyarah di Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Pendidikan (PPIP), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Saya mengajar kursus yang berkaitan dengan pedagogi dan kurikulum pendidikan bahasa Melayu. Bidang penyelidikan saya ialah pragmatik dan pengajian bahasa Melayu transdisiplin.

Sebelum mengajar di USM, saya telah mengajar selama 15 tahun di sekolah-sekolah Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia. Dalam tempoh tersebut, saya telah menimba banyak pengalaman dan telah berkhidmat dalam pelbagai jawatan dan bidang. Secara tidak langsung, saya telah dibentuk menjadi seorang guru yang berdedikasi dan bertanggungjawab.

Sebagai salah seorang tenaga pengajar di USM, khususnya sebagai pensyarah bahasa Melayu, saya berharap supaya penggunaan bahasa Melayu dapat diperkasakan dalam upacara rasmi USM, termasuklah dalam proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran.

Di samping itu, saya berharap agar bahasa Melayu dapat dimartabatkan sebagai bahasa ilmu di USM kerana bahasa Melayu tinggi mempunyai nilainya tersendiri dalam mengungkapkan wacana. Dengan cara ini, kita akan dapat membuktikan kepada dunia akademik global bahawa USM merupakan sebuah universiti yang cemerlang dalam pelbagai bidang dan aspek, termasuklah dalam usaha memartabatkan dan memperkasakan bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa kebangsaan dan bahasa rasmi negara Malaysia.

Bangat-bangat menanam delima,

Buah ranum merah menyala;

Ingat-ingat pesan panglima,

Hilang Melayu hilang dunia.

Saya berharap melalui kursus P&P ini saya akan dapat mempelajari pendekatan, kaedah, teknik dan aplikasi pendidikan yang baharu sejajar dengan Revolusi  Industri 4.0 serta bersesuaian dengan  Pelan Pembangunan Pendidikan Malaysia (PPPM) dan Pendidikan 4.0. Di samping itu, saya juga berharap saya akan dapat berkongsi serta menimba ilmu dan pengalaman bersama dengan peserta kursus yang lain.

Apa guna asam paya,
Kalau tidak menggulai ikan;
Apa guna lagak dan gaya,
Kalau bahasa tidak dihiraukan.

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Assalamualaikum and good morning.

I am Diana Mohamad, from School of Housing, Building and Planning (HBP). My area of focus are travel behaviour, urban planning, tourism planning and telecommuting. My journey of teaching is very much influenced by the guidance and support which i have received from my lecturers, during my whole student life. This valuable experience had thought me that it is important to nurture the way the young think.

By attending this PnP course, i am hoping that at the end of the day, i will be able to attract the students' interests and attention in classes. And hoping from this, i hope it will trigger the students' determination to seek for knowledge in terms of two-way communication approach with lecturers and friends.

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Salam Sejahtera my fellow colleagues, I am Ooi Chia Ai from School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Engineering campus, USM.

My research interests focus on Power Electronics, Energy Storage, Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Management. My teaching areas mainly cover Power Electronics and Machine Drives.

Academic research is a passion of mine. From my earliest exposure to Electrical and Electronic Engineering, I respected the hard work of developing computer adaptations and cognitive aids to overcome the problem in the world. Besides, I love to teach. During my undergraduate studies, a professor's passion has inspired me to leap on an academic path. I feel it is an honor to pass on my knowledge to students.

I have heard all the good things about this P & P course where the participants were introduced with attractive yet effective teaching methods, and no doubt this is going to be a great learning experience for me. I am also looking forward to meeting you guys and I am sure I am gonna learn a lot from each of you!

“ We are human, we are not perfect, we make mistake, we keep learning and we become better ones.”

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Assalamualaikum and hi all!

I am Nor Shariffa Yussof from the School of Industrial Technology.

My research interests are in the area of food nanotechnology, food hydrocolloids and fats and oils. Currently, I am teaching Food Chemistry, Primary Product Technology and Physical Properties of Food.

Honestly, at first, I did not have a deep interest in teaching and never dreamed to be a teacher. My passion was more towards research. This might be due to my lack of teaching experience. My first formal teaching experience was when I officially joined USM in November 2016. I have been assigned to teach 3 subjects and at that time, it was a big challenge to me. However, after teaching for three semesters, I started to have an interest in teaching especially when students enjoy my lecture and gained new knowledge from me. It gave me immense joy and satisfaction. I hope that my interest in teaching will grow more and continue growing day by day. I still have a lot to learn in order to improve my teaching skills and be a good role model to the students.

This PnP course will be a good platform for me to improve my teaching skills and to gain knowledge on how to be an excellent teacher. After attending this course, I hope that I will be able to adopt all of the new teaching methods and tools such as online learning, flipped classroom, infographic, etc. for my class.

I would like to share a quote from Imam Malik:

“It is not the knowledge which should come to you, it is you who should come to the knowledge.”

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Dear all,
My name is Ng Mei Li.
I am a Senior Lecturer from the advanced medical and dental institute (AMDI). In
medical research, my expertise is focusing on bio markers discovery and
molecular mechanism of cardio metabolic diseases. In addition, I am teaching
postgraduate students from AMDI, modules including integrative and molecular
medicine. As a lecturer in USM, I am inspired to continuously improve the university position as a leading research-intensive university in Malaysia, through defined strengths in professional and scientific fields. I seek to make a significant contribution to the development of knowledge, to learning and teaching to our students.Through participating this course, I hope to gain in-depth learning experience with our colleagues.

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Assalamualaikum and Salam Sejahtera. I am Nur Farhana Jaafar from School of Chemical Sciences.

My research interests focus on synthesis and characterization of mesoporous material, nanoparticle and electrogenerated metal as photocatalyst for degradation of pollutants. My teaching area mainly focus on inorganic and analytical chemistry.

I always believe the beautiful thing about knowledge is no one can take it away from you. Learning is a journey to gain a precious and meaningful experience where it should be in a pleasure and enjoyable in any way so we will never forget.

Honestly, I have never been through any formal teaching experience that make it quite challenging  for me to identify what and how the right way to make sure students can understand and stay focus on class. So I hope through this course I can gain some experience and the proper way to make my class interactive so the students can enjoy the learning process.

My philosophy of life " Life is too short to regret because in the end, it makes you who you are"

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Assalamualaikum wbt and good day to all of you. My name is Mohd Hafiz Bin Mohd from School of Mathematical Sciences, USM.

Area of specialisation (teaching & research):
- Mathematical Modelling

- Theoretical Ecology (and Biology)

- Numerical Continuation, Dynamical Systems and Bifurcation Theory

- Individual-Based Modelling

Aspiration as an academic in USM:

I would like to be a lecturer who is not only want to educate students, but at the same time I hope to inspire them to take an active interest in education and change their attitudes. Without such inspiration, teaching and learning session will be dull, especially for theoretical subjects like mathematics, and our students can lose their interests completely. To increase students’ participation in class, a lecturer needs to make the learning session fun and memorable for their students. This milestone can be achieved by employing different student-centred strategies and constructivist learning approaches. Thus, by attending this workshop, I hope to learn new techniques and pedagogical approaches in conducting effective lectures and tutorial classes.

For research, I am a trained applied mathematician. My research employs continuation and simulation methods to improve our predictions of species geographic distributions in nature. I am also interested in modelling the problems in engineering and other biological systems such as epidemiology and ecology. To address these problems, I use deterministic models and stochastic individual-based models. I also use the techniques from differential equations, dynamical systems, numerical continuation and stochastic processes to develop mathematical and computational tools to answer a range of biologically inspired questions.

In terms of giving back to the society, I believe that we as a lecturer needs to play our parts by conducting community service programmes to help the bottom billions like orphans and also underprivileged students. Hopefully, this can also help to empower the bottom billions so that they can live comfortably and independently in the future.

What you hope to learn and achieve from this P&P course?

As mentioned earlier, I hope to learn new pedagogical approaches in conducting effective classrooms. I also keen to make new friends, and would love to collaborate with others in terms of research.

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Hello everyone,

I am Ahmad Salwan, the Admin. Officer at CDAE, and I'm one of the secretariat team members for this course. Very happy to meet all of you :)

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen.. pls get ready to embark upon a great journey to enhance your professionalism as USM new academician.. Truly, it's going to be fun filled days, full of excitement and new challenging experience :).

While this course is specially designed by our sifu, Prof. Karim.. just for you, young and vibrant lecturers.. just sit back, relax and enjoy .. We really hope that you will have a very meaningful learning experience with your new friends throughout this course ya :)

Sit back, relax and enjoy.. Always SMILE and use these 4-Magical Words.. 'Please, Thank you, Sorry, and Excuse Me'.

Please let us know if we can assist you further. :) Happy learning, thank you.

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Assalamualaikum wbt, salam sejahtera, bonjour a tous.

I am Amirah MOHD GAZZALI from Discipline of Pharmaceutical Technology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences. My area of specialization is drug formulation and targeted drug delivery.

Currently I am teaching Dosage Form I and II for first- and second-year students and Cosmetic and Toiletries (Personal Care) for final year students.

As an academic, I hope to be able to reach, teach, facilitate and provide an effective learning experience to my students. As  pharmacists-to-be, dosage form formulation is among the important subject that they have to master and hence this is a huge responsibility on my shoulder. I like this challenge and I hope that I will be able to do this beautifully.

Teaching has always been my passion since I was a small child. But I know passion alone is not enough, teaching is an art and a skill that need to be acquired. Thus, through this P&P course, I hope to learn more on teaching techniques and approaches that are suitable and effective for the current generation, especially now, on the verge of the Forth Industrial Revolution.

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Dear all,
My name is Thien Lei Mee. I am a Senior Lecturer in School of Educational Studies. My areas of expertise are organizational behaviour from sociopsychology perspective and quantitative research methods. My teaching courses are mainly focus on school effectiveness research and advanced statistics in education. My current research is related to Confucian academic leadership as well as the diversity of students’ quality of school life in three types of Malaysian primary schools. As an academic in USM, I wish I can share my knowledge with the students so that they can well prepared for their future career. I hope I can learn more 21st century teaching and learning skills from this P&P course in order to make the teaching more interactive and interesting.

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Assallamualaikum & Salam Sejahtera everyone.

My name is Mohamad Saifudin Mohamad Saleh. I am from School of Communication, Universiti Sains Malaysia.

My area of specialisation includes environmental (sustainability) communication, media and environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) studies.

As an academic, I hope I can inspire all of my beloved students to dream bigger and most importantly to always follow their dream. As I personally always believe that "if you can dream it, you can do it - Walt Disney".

From the P&P course, I hope to learn a lot of new and creative teaching methods that can help in improving my teaching skill and become a better educator. I am also very excited to meet new friends from USM!

See you on Monday!

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Assalamualaikum and salam sejahtera to all. I am Mardiana Saaid from School of Chemical Sciences and was previously a lecturer at Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam Campus for 8 years. I have gained very valuable experienced
with UiTM. UiTM Di Hatiku always.

Now, with USM 'We Lead' i will strive hard to provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills to succeed not only in academics but also good moral values. I hope to have bright career with USM.

My research interest is in Separation Chemistry mainly focus on the development of sample preparation techniques for food analysis.

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AsSalam and Salam Sejahtera.
I am Mohd Haizzan Yahaya, can call me Haizzan :-), from School of Social Sciences. A little bit on my research interest, focuses on social work in housing settings, social policy, social development, urban poverty, and environmental social work. In addition, I do teaches International Social Work, Philosophy, Values ​​and Ethics in Social Work, Community Work, and Group Work.

I believe, there is still a lot more to learn. Thus P&P must be really one of the most important aspects in accomplishing a better academia life, InsyaAllah.

Jumpa nanti :-)

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Hi everyone. I'm Azmil from the School of Social Sciences. I teach Political Science. My research areas are Comparative Politics especially in Southeast Asia, Political Theory, and Social Movements.

My path to becoming an academic is a circuitous one but I do believe that I have now found my passion and calling in life. I aspire to become an all-around public scholar, who's equally passionate about teaching, research and writing, while actively engaging with the society at large since I'm a firm believer in breaking down the barriers between the academia and the community of which it is part.

What I hope to get out of the P&P course is to learn new and creative ways to share my knowledge and passion with my students, particularly pedagogical methods and use of innovative technology in classroom.

I look forward to attending the course and meeting all of you there. Take care.

Cheers,
Azmil

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Assalammualaikum and Hello Everyone! I am Yanny, from School of Materials & Mineral Resources Engineering. Nice to meet you!
My area of specialisation is in Materials Engineering-Biomaterials to be exact. Currently I am working on different group of Biomaterials for Biomedical applications particularly for Bone Tissue Engineering. Besides Biomaterials, I am also interested in Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, where I am working hand-in-hand with a local Ceramic company in developing advanced ceramic tiles.
Besides research, I am very passionate about teaching too. I love being with my students. So far I have been teaching both UG & PG (mix-mode) for Engineering Materials, Chemical Synthesis, Crystallography, Ceramics and Materials Characterization. Personally I enjoy teaching and sharing my knowledge & experience as well as motivating the students as I believed "the more we give, the more we get from Him in many ways that we have never imagine before". As an academics, I think we are given free opportunity to do good deeds by nurturing the future generation. Thus, one of my precept is...
"Your deeds are your monuments"
By attending the upcoming P&P, I hope I can enhance my teaching skill by learning from the experts, making new friends and be a better academic after I completed this course. Oh well, not only a "better academic" but  an "Educational Rockstar" may be?

Cheers,
Yanny

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Assalamualaikum dan salam sejahtera. Nama saya Nur Zaidi Azraai. Saya adalah pensyarah dan penyelidik  pogram Rekabentuk Teknologi Media Baru, Pusat Pengajian  Seni, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Bidang kepakaran dan tumpuan penyelidikan saya ialah meliputi bidang Animasi dan Pemodelan 3D, Antropologi Media, kearifan tempatan Pemetaan Gerakan, Pengkomposan Video / Kesan Khas, dan grafik.
saya berharap kurusus ini data member pendedahan dan kefahaman kepada saya mengenai cara mendidik dengan betul. secara jujur saya tidak mempunyai pengalaman mengajar secara formal sebelum ini. saya datang dari industri kemudian terus melanjutkan pengajian. hanya berbekalkan  sedikit pengalaman mengajar semasa sandaran di pusat pengajian. semoga di dalan kursus ini, saya dapat tunjuk ajar dari pakar serta rakan-rakan kursus. sekian terima kasih

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Assalamualaikum and hello everyone. Welcome to Kursus P&P! My name is Rafidah Abdul Rahim, PA to Prof Abd Karim Alias. I've been with USM for almost 15 years.  I'm glad to be part of CDAE and with the strong teamwork we hope to achieve greater heights of success for 2018 and beyond.

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I’m Hazzeman Haris from School of Biological Sciences.

My area of specialization are environmental quality and analysis, metal pollution and metal speciation. Currently I’m teaching environmental pollution, environmental management, soil science and ecology classes.

My aspiration as an academician is to generate and disperse knowledge through research and education. Hopefully with knowledge, we can progress to be a develop nation. I hope from this P&P course I improve my knowledge on teaching and learning, especially on how current technology can help me teach and for the student to learn better.

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Hi everyone! I'm Veera from Centre for Chemical Biology.

My field of expertise includes Entomology, Molecular Biology and Genetics. My current research focuses on biology and management of insects that are pests to humans.

My aspiration as an academic in USM is to mentor young intellects to think and guiding them to realise their own potential.

I wish by attending this course I would be able to enhance my skills and techniques as an educator in USM and make friends with my fellow academics.

See you guys soon!

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Hello everyone.
I am Ooi from the Graduate School of Business (GSB).

I share my little knowledge and experience in Business Ethics & Corporate Governance with the postgraduates. My research interests are in the area of sustainable development, covering corporate social and environmental reporting, CSR, and issues in corporate sustainability. My niche area is in corporate climate change reporting.

I believe in "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

With the availability of the Internet and Mr. Google, information is widely available online nowadays, hence, my greatest aspiration is to become a friendly Professor, a person who can provide learning experience to inspire learners to gain knowledge themselves.

Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow, I look forward to learn from you all in the P&P.

Thank you!

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Assalamualaikum wbq and good evening everyone,

I am Suzana from Advanced Medical and Dental Institute (AMDI). I have been teaching and serving Universiti Sains Malaysia since 20th July 2016. My specialty is in community health particularly in the area of epidemiology of public health diseases and biostatistics.

In AMDI, I involve in the establishment of biostatistics clinic and actively play role as one the consultant to help academic staffs and our postgraduate students with their research. So far I have been teaching multivariate statistics, nutrition in health and disease, and health promotion. I love teaching and I am happy doing it.

My aspiration as an academic is to inspire the students to love learning because when there is the love there is a will to keep learning and exploring both the knowledge and their own potential. Therefore, I am ready to learn as much as I could from this PnP course (looking forward to make new friends as well 😊).

See you all tomorrow.

Suzana

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Assalamualaikum & Hello everyone,
I am from School of Communication. My area of specialty and research interest are corporate social responsibility (CSR) and marketing communication.

I have served the industry for 7 years working with MNCs before joining the academic world, first as researcher and now a lecturer.

I believe that teaching is not a one way, we learn from each other and the learning journey has no end. As an educator, we are not teaching whats in the syllabus only but also the moral and values to become a better human being. Im passionate about teaching and meeting students from all different walks of life. Each of them gave me valuable experience.

Hope to be able to make it all they way through for this 2weeks P&P course and learn as much as possible.

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Assalamualaikum dan salam sejahtera,

Nama saya, Shida Irwana, pensyarah dari Pusat Pengajian Perumahan, Bangunan dan Perancangan (HBP). Saya telah mula berkhidmat di USM sejak tahun 2003 sebagai pegawai penyelidik  di Sustainable Tourism Research Cluster (STRC) & Pejabat Komunikasi Strategik. Hanya pada April 2017 saya dilantik sebagai pensyarah di HBP.

Walaupun penyelidikan saya banyak tertumpu kepada bidang pelancongan, tetapi di HBP, fokus pengajaran saya turut meliputi bidang perancangan bandar (untuk pelajar ijazah) di samping bidang pelancongan (untuk pelajar sarjana).

Bagi saya, ilmu boleh didapati di mana-mana. Saya sering berpesan kepada pelajar, bahawa saya tidak menganggap diri sebagai pendidik tetapi lebih kepada tempat rujukan dan pemudah cara untuk mereka mendapatkan ilmu. Komunikasi 2 hala antara pelajar-pensyarah adalah lebih berkesan daripada komunikasi sehala.

Walaupun telah menjadi pensyarah, saya masih lagi bergelar pelajar. Kadang kala, saya juga belajar daripada pelajar-pelajar saya. Oleh itu, kursus P&P ini menjadi medan terbaik untuk menimba ilmu untuk menjadi akademik yang lebih baik.

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Assalamualaikum and Hi everyone,

My name is Yazmin Bustami from School of Biological Sciences (PPSKH). My area of specialization includes synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles, manipulation of surface modified nanoparticles for biomolecules attachment and development of nanosensor technology. I have been teaching Practical of Biodiversity and Ecology, Principle of Biochemistry, Biological Instrumentation and Thinking Techniques since first joining USM as an academician in 2016.

My ultimate goal as an academician is to assist and help students to have a good core and fundamental knowledge especially in biotechnology area. For me, if the students have a strong base, they can actually applied the knowledge with a better understanding. Also, I would like to aspire them to be more ‘flexible’ in term of knowledge, to be more ‘interdisciplinary’ in order for them to be more marketability.

I like to talk, a lot. Instead of giving a long boring lecture with full of infos and facts, I really hope that I can learn in this P&P course on how to interact with students effectively as well as to make my class more interesting and accessible.

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Assalammualaikum & Good day everyone...

Hello everyone I am from INFORMM. My area of specialisation is on Cancer research. I am inspired to be an acedemic to share

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Assalamualaikum and hello everyone.
My name is Noor Aida Saad. I am a lecturer at River Engineering and Urban Drainage Research Centre (REDAC), which is located at Engineering Campus. My research focus is water and wastewater treatment studies. I am also interested in the application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in any water related studies. So far, I have been teaching a few subjects in School of Civil Engineering and School of Material and Mineral Resources. I really hope that this course could help me to gain more knowledge in teaching methods. It is also a good platform for me to get to know many more colleagues from USM. As an individual, I believe that we all have dreams, but in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort. As an academic, I do agree that

‘Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think’

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Salam and Hi all,
Nice to meet all of you. Below are some bits of myself..

Affiliation:
* School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Education:
* PhD of Photovoltaics Engineering (UNSW), Sydney, Australia

Industrial Experience:
* SilTerra (6+ Years)
* Fuji Electric (1.5 Years)

Teaching:
* Semiconductor Physics and Devices (ZAT386)
* Semiconductor Fabrication Processes (ZAT487)

Research Expertise:
* Solar Photovoltaics (PV)

Teaching journey so far?
* It has been a great experience so far. I enjoy so much since i get to teach subjects which are very much related to my specialisation and my previous industrial experiences. I can relate the contents of the syllabus directly to the applications in the industry and at R&D phase and students enjoy these so much and appreciate the subjects more!

The main challenges?
* In the first few lectures, I found it a bit difficult to get students attention. Once they saw the applications of the contents (since the subjects belong to applied physics), they started giving more focus.
* Based on students feedbacks, they understood and enjoyed my class since I incorporated my previous knowledge and industrial experiences into the subjects.

Aspiration as USM academic?
* Would like to fully capitalise on my previous industrial experiences in teaching my subjects to Physics' students.
* I want to play my role to position USM as a PV research leader in Malaysia and one of the best worldwide. One day insyaAllah...

What to learn from P&P?
* Effective teaching and learning strategies
* Teaching philosophy
* Everything!

My favourite quote...
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results." [Einstein]

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Assalamualaikum and good morning everyone...

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Assalamualaikum and good morning everyone...

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Hope all of you doing fine. welcome to our second day :).

I am Rabiatul Basria S M N Mydin, from Advanced Medical and Dental Institute, USM Bertam branch. My area of specialization is cancer genomics, biomaterials and nanomedicine.

Teaching journey as an academic in USM.....
I've been in this teaching journey for two semester at AMDI and PJJ school. Starting was very interesting and challenging because most of my students age older than me, and half of my class are international students. Therefore, my style of teaching are more like discussion and critical thinking session. I did not set any boundaries with the students, treat equally like a friend and colleague. Alhamdulillah, I applied blended teaching module and most of them enjoyed the session.

What I hope to learn and achieve from this P&P course...
I wanna learn as much as possible from senior academic and experts on how to handle students and become an inspiring academic.

see you guys during p & p sessions.

"The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things" by Jean Piaget

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Ola!!! I am Atikah from School of Social Sciences. I am a Social Work lecturer. My research  and teaching areas are spirituality, health and well-being and bereavement.

I am inspired to be an academician because I love to learn and to be among people who love to learn. Working as an educator allows me to be in a challenging and interesting world. I love to challenge my self and to also inspire others to always learning.

I hope this course can provide me with more knowledge on how to be a good educator.

Thank you!!!

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“Dalam era di mana robot dan Artificial Intelligent telah melangkah jauh meninggalkan kemampuan manusia, di sinilah ilmu kemanusiaan itu berfungsi bagi mengekalkan manusia di tahap heiraki tertinggi dalam kalangan makhluk yang wujud di alam semesta. Manusia tidak boleh bersaing dengan robot&AI sebalik manusia perlu terus memperkasa sifat kemanusiaan agar manusia kekal relevan sebagai penguasa dan makhluk teragung di muka bumi”.

Assalamualaikum & Hi everyone… It’s nice to meet all of you in Kursus Pengajaran&Pembelajaran

Saya Mohammad Amir bin Wan Harun, daripada Pengajian Islam Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan (PPIK).

Baru menyertai keluarga USM dari Mac 2016. Bidang penyelidikan adalah dalam Perubatan Nabawi dan Halal. Saya mengajar subjek Institusi Kekeluargaan Islam (HIS224) dan Prinsip Perundangan Islam (HIS213) di PPIK.

Pendidikan:

Ijazah Sarjana Muda (Fiqh & Usul), Mu’tah University Jordan

PhD (Halal) UTM Johor.

Perjalanan Pengajaran:

Pengajaran adalah perkongsian, berkongsi itu sesuatu yang memberi kedamaian dalam jiwa. Dalam berkongsi, ada yang menerima dengan baik pemberian yang dihulurkan dan ia menggembirakan hati.  Ada yang menerima separuh  dan ada pula yang menerima sedikit, ia mungkin disebabkan kaedah perkongsian kurang berkesan untuk menzahirkan kepentingan pemberian tersebut kepada penerima. Syukur P&P ini memberikan saya lebih banyak cara untuk memujuk mereka menerima dengan sepenuh hati. Terima kasih Team CDEA & Prof Abd Karim Alias.

Cabaran Utama dalam P&P:

Saya berusaha sedaya upaya untuk mengaplikasikan teknologi-teknologi terkini dalam P&P, namun perkembangannya terlalu laju untuk diikuti (mugkin disebabkan saya bukan jenis tech punya orang). Baru guna apps A, Apps B pula diperkenalkan. Baru cuba-cuba belajar apps B, apps C pula keluar.

Aspirasi selaku USM Academic:

Aspirasi saya adalah untuk membangunkan people di sekeliling saya untuk bersama-sama mengubah dunia Akademik ke arah yang lebih baik.

Apa yang dipelajari daripada P&P:

1 ilmu yang paling besar saya perolehi adalah “Ilmu itu bukanlah pengetahuan yang dipelajari kerana ia akan dilupai, tetapi ilmu adalah sesuatu yang dibawa bersama apabila pengetahuan tersebut dilupai”.

Falsafah Pengajaran:

“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flower, not thunder” – al-Rumi.

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Assalammualaikum and good day everyone..

Hello everyone.. You may call me Darul. I am from INFORMM working on cancer related research. I have been as an academic in USM for a year now.

My inspiration as an academic is to inspire my students to be the best in whatever they do. To be the best role model who inspire them to become success in their life.

I hope this PnP course will stimulate my motivation to strive to become a good academic and to learn new methods in teaching to generate a skilful teaching methods.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become - Steve Jo

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Dear all,
My name is Ng Mei Li.
I am a Senior Lecturer from the advanced medical and dental institute (AMDI). In
medical research, my expertise is focusing on bio markers discovery and
molecular mechanism of cardio metabolic diseases. In addition, I am teaching
postgraduate students from AMDI, modules including integrative and molecular
medicine. As a lecturer in USM, I am inspired to continuously improve the university position as a leading research-intensive university in Malaysia, through defined strengths in professional and scientific fields. I seek to make a significant contribution to the development of knowledge, to learning and teaching to our students.Through participating this course, I hope to gain in-depth learning experience with our colleagues.

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Assalamualaikum waramatullahi wabarakatuh...
I did my PhD in USM under the supervision of PRof Mohd Omar Abd Kadir. 'Twas truly a long and perilious intellectual journey, but I prevailed after 6 years in 2016. So now I find myself as a lecturer at the School of Industrial Technology in USM, which is oddly enough where I did my undergraduate studies in Environmental Technology from 2003 to 2006. It is strange to think that since 2003, my life has more or less circulated around USM.
The USM in which I spent my undergraduate years is  not the USM in which I currently teach. Was the vibrancy of my undergraduate years due to the fire of youth which burned in me? The same fire which now consists of dying embers, glowing mournfully in the dark winter night which has arrived far too soon for me. Or was it due to some fundamental difference in USM itself, this vibrancy? I know not. But I digress...
My aspiration as a lecturer is to guide my students so that they are in no way misled of the nature of the "world" in which they are to partake.

Teaching philosophy: Under consideration

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First step: Meet with peers & lecturers to gather more info

Second step: Contact student, arrange for an appointment, meet student at appointed time & place

Third Step: Identify problems, recommend solutions and refer to counselor

Fourth step: Discuss problematic student with TDA

Fifth step: Monitor progress

Sixth step: Contact and discuss with parents

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Assalamualaikum

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Nursing Programme, PPSK USM
Teaching (critical care and basic nursing skill)

Aspiration : Prof Nor Azmi Muhammad
Hope: to be a good lecturer

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Student from biological science.

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Student from biological science