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Associate Professor Dr. Habibah Ab Jalil is an academician in the Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) since 2000. An instructor for courses related to information and communication technology (ICT) in education for graduate and undergraduate students. She holds a Bachelor of Science with Education (Hons) majoring in Physics, a Master of Science (Physics Communications) UPM and a doctorate from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

 

She was actively involved in the multimedia production for educational courseware and a facilitator for multimedia production workshops since 1996 in CyberCreative Laboratory (CCL) and Department of Physics, Faculty of Science UPM until 2002. Owing to the development of ICT, she explored an important area of ICT in Education, the Online Learning through her doctoral study. In particular, she studied the Learning Management System (LMS) in Higher Education context from the sociocultural perspective.

 

At international level, she is a Hon. Member of Governing Body for the International Institute of Management and Technical Studies Ltd. UK (IIMTS), was an Associate Member of Association for Learning Technology, ALT (UK based), was a Junior member of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), was a member of Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011, International Society of the Learning Sciences, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). She was invited as the Malaysia representative by the UNESCO to the Second Regional Expert Meeting - MOOCs as a Catalyst to Enhance Teaching and Lifelong Learning in Asia and the Pacific in 2016 and a lead consultant to Regional Consultation on ICT-Driven Innovation in Higher Education in Asia-Pacific in 2019.

 

At national level, she was a member of the Malaysian Public Universities Council of e-Learning or ‘Majlis e-Pembelajaran IPTA Malaysia’ (MEIPTA) representing UPM and a member of Malaysian Association for Mobile Learning. She was assigned as the lead researcher for the study of MOOC on a national level in 2016 which have a major impact on UPM and the country. She involved in the development of various national policy including National policy on e-Learning (DePAN), Malaysian MOOC Development Guideline, National Open Educational Resources and National Gamification.

 

At University level, she was a Coordinator and Associate Fellow of Teaching and Learning Innovation Division, Centre for Academic Development (CADe), UPM, particularly coordinate programs and research related to SCL, Blended Learning, LMS, MOOC and OER at the Universiti Putra Malaysia. Now, she is the Coordinator of Innovative Learning Sciences Research Centre of Excellence (INNOVATE) and Technology Coordinator for Putra Future Classroom (PFC), Faculty of Educational Studies, taking role in establishing and strategizing the operation and direction of the first PFC in UPM.