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JURNAL PSIKOLOGI MALAYSIA, Dec 29, 2020

This study set out to investigate the use of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) to improve stude... more This study set out to investigate the use of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) to improve students' teamwork skills in group project activities for the Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship course among students majoring in Accounting at Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). Among the group assignments for the Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship course are the preparation of business plans and website development. However, the output produced was found to be unsatisfactory and failed to be completed within the allotted time. This is due to the problem of the lack of cooperation between group members and the time constraints faced by the students. Therefore, the objective of this study is to examine how the use of MOOCs can help improve the psychological well-being of students in carrying out group project activities in the Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship course conducted online. This study was conducted using action research. Findings show that learning through MOOCs is an effective method to improve teamwork skills and improve the psychological well-being of Fundamental of Entrepreneurship students. From a psychological point of view, students feel that by using MOOCs platforms such as chat rooms and forums, they are able to improve their teamwork skills to help them complete their group projects with better quality and excellence.

1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 • Objectives of the Study 2 • Significance of the Study 2 2.0 LITERATURE REVIE... more 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 • Objectives of the Study 2 • Significance of the Study 2 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW 3 2.1 Internet technology in Malaysia 2.2 E-commerce 5 2.3 Definition of Perception and Attitude 10 2.4 Technology Acceptance Model and the Studied Model 3.0 DATA COLLECTION AND METHODOLOGY 3.

Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2021

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has provided flexibility for teachers and students... more Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has provided flexibility for teachers and students to engage in academic discourse irrespective of the location. With rapid technological advancements, Mobile learning offers incredible opportunities, especially in higher education especially during this Covid-19 pandemic. The advancement of mobile and wireless communication technologies has encouraged the mobile learning method where students are able to learn via mobile devices without being limited by space and time. The millennial generation can be situated in a real-world scenario associated with the learning content in higher education. This paper discovered how mobile learning approach can enhance engagement skills and communication skills among millennial generation and employed action research methodology. In this research, mobile learning application such as kahoot! E-exercises and e-quizzes adoption of mobile learning during lecture and outside lectures activities for convers...

Critical thinking is important to students in providing them to become an excellent employee or e... more Critical thinking is important to students in providing them to become an excellent employee or entrepreneur because with the skills they are able to identify issue/ problem in a complex situation ,assess and justify complex situation, think beyond boundaries at most times and to provide challenging views. Positive psychological well-being of students develops students’ constructive attitude toward challenges faced. Realizing the importance of critical thinking skill and positive psychological well-being to accounting student, the researcher did a study to improve these factors by using one of the effective teaching strategy, called coaching approach. Coaching approach is a method that directly involves the learners, by actively encouraging them to do something in order to achieve their goals. A culture of mentoring and coaching will, over time, have an impact on young people and their learning. The approach can increase reflectivity and clarity of thinking, improved psychological w...

Many researchers have attempted to study the efficiency of e-learning and blended learning concep... more Many researchers have attempted to study the efficiency of e-learning and blended learning concepts on teaching and learning processes. One of the most recent developments in technology enhanced method in teaching and learning is a method called flipped learning. It is an approach where the traditional one-way lecture is flipped to make room for active learning opportunities where educators shift learning into the individual learning space facilitated by technology. This study attempts to implement flipped learning approach in the effort to enhance communication and critical thinking skills among accounting students in Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz School of Accounting (TISSA) in Universiti Utara Malaysia. The study involved 49 students from BKAL1013 Business Accounting Group O class from the first semester of 2016/2017.The objective of this study is to examine how the use of flipped learning can help to improve communication and critical thinking skills in problem solving among studen...

This study proposes a model of the drivers of cloud computing use for small and medium enterprise... more This study proposes a model of the drivers of cloud computing use for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia.The research model is developed based on technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework and diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory.It is proposed that the use of cloud computing is being influenced by relative advantage, compatibility, and complexity (from the technological context), CEO’s innovativeness, top management support, and technology readiness (from the organizational context), and competitive pressure (from the environmental context).A sequential explanatory mixed methods is used for data collection.The findings will contribute to knowledge in cloud computing, especially in regards to cloudbased technologies used by the SMEs and the drivers of use. The findings will also assist the government agencies in accelerating the use of cloud computing among the SMEs and extending the full benefits of cloud computing to sustain the competitiveness of the SMEs.

This research examined how managers in universities incorporate non-financial measures in their L... more This research examined how managers in universities incorporate non-financial measures in their Learning Management Systems decision-making processes and particularly focused on the importance of the Human Capital perspective in LMS decision making processes. A mixed-methods approach to data collection was used involving both interviews and questionnaires. The qualitative data from the interviews were coded and analysed. A descriptive coding method using thematic analysis was used for the data coding. The qualitative data were analysed using an inductive approach where the categories of criteria and indicators were not determined before the interview. The participants in this research were five members of LMS decision-making teams at two different universities in Australia and 24 participants from different universities in Malaysia who were involved in LMS decision- making pro-cesses at their universities. The results of this research indicated that there was substantial support for...

This research examined how managers in universities incorporate non-financial measures in their L... more This research examined how managers in universities incorporate non-financial measures in their Learning Management System (LMS) decision-making processes. A LMS decision-making model which includes six multi-dimensional perspectives, incorporating financial and non-financial criteria and indicators, was developed and evaluated. The outcome of this study is a LMS decision-making model developed as a tool to support a more effective evaluation of Information Technology (IT) alternatives. Results also indicate that there was substantial support for using a multi-dimensional decision making model among IT decision makers at universities, and that they believed that non-financial measures are important and should be considered in a LMS decision making process.

One of the most recent developments in technology enhanced method in teaching and learning is a m... more One of the most recent developments in technology enhanced method in teaching and learning is a method called flipped learning. It is an approach where the traditional one-way lecture is flipped to make room for active learning opportunities where educators shift learning into the individual learning space facilitated by technology. This study investigates the success factors of flipped learning approach in enhancing students’ communication and critical thinking skills. in Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz School of Accounting (TISSA) in Universiti Utara Malaysia. The study involved 49 students from BKAL1013 Business Accounting Group O class from the first semester of 2016/2017. The objective of this study is to examine how the use of flipped learning can help to improve communication and critical thinking skills in problem solving among students taking the accounting subject. From this study, the results showed that students’ motivation and educator’s fragment are two important success fa...

Growing use of technology by students is having an impact on teaching and learning as students ar... more Growing use of technology by students is having an impact on teaching and learning as students are increasingly seeking to use technologies to engage in a range of academic activities. The traditional way of teaching and learning have to change in order to enhance students’ social and lifelong learning skills. Communicating with mobile phone have become a daily routine by most students. They are motivated to almost anything that involves mobile technology. That is why they are spending hours with their phones. Thus, this study is done to recognize how mobile technology can help enhancing the social and lifelong learning of students through a case done in Seminar in Management Accounting class with the use of social and lifelong learning rubric and action research methodology. The study found that students have the opportunity to engage with the business communities through the use of mobile technology. The technologies enable them to engage with other party regardless of time and si...

Problem Based Learning (PBL) can help developing students’ judgment, creativity, critical thinkin... more Problem Based Learning (PBL) can help developing students’ judgment, creativity, critical thinking, and information integrating abilities. It involves student’s core knowledge, cognitive skills and action skills. The purpose of this study is to examine if the method of PBL may improve students’ communication skills as well as their psychological well-being. The study was conducted using action research methodology in an Accounting class. The study found that students are more active and highly participative during the deliverance of course content. Positive psychological well-being develops students’ constructive attitude toward challenges faced with the use of PBL. Keywords: Problem Based Learning (PBL), Communication skills, Psychological well-being, Education, Action research.

International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, 2021

The occurrence of changes in the leadership system resulted in leaders among the government exper... more The occurrence of changes in the leadership system resulted in leaders among the government experiencing problems in carrying out their duties and responsibilities within the organization. In short, the problems that often arise in the government bureaucracy, namely the recruitment system and promotion of positions in government bureaucratic institutions are not confined by competent human sources. This is because the system applied only involves an element of subjectivity in the assessment. For this reason, leadership competencies must be possessed by a leader. This competence is related to how a leader can manage emotions properly and appropriately (emotional competence), especially in building interactions with his subordinates. This study aims to propose a conceptual framework of predictable leadership competence with emotional competence. Besides, the researcher also wants to intend to see the effect of demographic variables as a moderator of the relationship between emotional competence and leadership competence. Data was collected through a questionnaire distributed to 300 leaders who work as heads of fields, heads of departments, and heads of offices within the Makassar City Government. The data analysis applied was using inferential analysis in testing the research hypothesis. The results of this study indicate that leadership competence can be predicted by emotional competence by a leader. Besides, the level of education and tenure of a leader has an effect that moderates the effect of emotional competence on leadership competence. Then, the aspects of emotional competence along with education level and years of service also correlated with leadership competence. The findings of this study can provide information for every leader in the government bureaucracy in carrying out their duties to encourage the achievement of organizational goals for success by bringing innovation in the leadership competency model that is built.

SHS Web of Conferences, 2017

This study reviews literature on cloud computing adoption in organisations to identify its influe... more This study reviews literature on cloud computing adoption in organisations to identify its influential factors and its operationalisation in prior literature. We classify the factors that influence the cloud computing adoption using the three contexts suggested by the Technology-Organisation-Environment (TOE) framework, namely, technology, organisation, and environment. The finding suggests that the influences of these factors vary across studies and most of the studies have operationalised cloud computing adoption using intention to adopt cloud computing or binary variable, rather than the actual use of the technology.

Implementing Learning Management Systems (LMS) in universities is becoming one of the most critic... more Implementing Learning Management Systems (LMS) in universities is becoming one of the most critical decisions in higher education environment as they could yield long term benefit particularly in terms of enhancing the quality of teaching and learning processes and gaining competitive positions. Like IT and IS investment in other sectors generally, there is a need to develop a more comprehensive and effective model that really articulates the value from IT investment, to assist better decision making processes. Researchers have suggested that IT investment decision making models that are based primarily on monetary evaluation are inadequate because the value of IT investment is mostly indirect and intangible in nature. This study investigates the decision making models that are used to decide on the technology to invest, focusing on the importance of non-financial value to be incorporated in the IT investment decision making models. It proposes a model for LMS decision making, which integrates the Information Technology Balanced Scorecard (ITBSC) framework and Murphy's (2002) "five pillars of benefit realization". Six perspectives are derived from this integration, which are direct payback, business process, users, learning and growth, IT architecture and infrastructure, and risk and uncertainty perspectives.

Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2020

Currently the trend among the lecturer to adopt innovation and technology as a tool in the lectur... more Currently the trend among the lecturer to adopt innovation and technology as a tool in the lecture hall in fostering and increasing the positive impact among the students. Innovation and technology may encourage better impact to develop soft skills among the students such as communicate effectively, critical thinking skills, demonstrate appropriate interpersonal skills and teamwork, demonstrate leadership qualities and entrepreneurial skill. Many researchers have attempted to study the efficiency of e-learning and blended learning concepts on teaching and learning processes. One of the most recent developments in technology enhanced method in teaching and learning is a method called flipped learning. It is an approach where the traditional one-way lecture is flipped to make room for active learning opportunities where educators shift learning into the individual learning space facilitated by technology. This study implemented flipped learning approach in the effort to enhance communication and critical thinking skills among accounting students in Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz School of Accounting (TISSA) in Universiti Utara Malaysia, UUM. The objective of this study is to examine how the use of flipped learning can help to improve communication and critical thinking skills in problem solving among students taking the accounting subject. From this study, the results showed that students' communication and critical thinking skill has developed with the use of flipped learning. Sufficient time however, is needed for students to understand the content from the lectures given in the form of a video used as the media in this project used as an e-learning platform in this project, as well as the 'catchy' contents should be created to enhance interest from the students to watch the video.

JURNAL PSIKOLOGI MALAYSIA, Dec 29, 2020

Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2021

This research examined how managers in universities incorporate non-financial measures in their L... more This research examined how managers in universities incorporate non-financial measures in their Learning Management System (LMS) decision-making processes. A LMS decision-making model which includes six multi-dimensional perspectives, incorporating financial and non-financial criteria and indicators, was developed and evaluated. The outcome of this study is a LMS decision-making model developed as a tool to support a more effective evaluation of Information Technology (IT) alternatives. Results also indicate that there was substantial support for using a multi-dimensional decision making model among IT decision makers at universities, and that they believed that non-financial measures are important and should be considered in a LMS decision making process.

International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, 2021

SHS Web of Conferences, 2017

Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2020