Her research interests revolve around quality instructional design and collaborative learning, personalized learning to adapt content to different student levels optimizing educational opportunities and the applications of the former two to games-based learning, mobile learning and knowledge management. She has successfully published in more than 80 international journals and international conferences; successfully filed for a patent; led and collaborated in national grants for e-learning amounting to RM2, 053, 630; and obtained a gold and silver medal in the Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition for e-learning.
A firm
believer of meaningful interdisciplinary and collaborative research, she was
the architect behind the vision and mission of the ASEAN Center of Excellence
for e-Learning, of which Multimedia University is the hub. Furthermore, having
served in government-to-government activities, e.g. the Japanese-Malaysian
government tele-education satellite project (Networked Multimedia Education
System) and the UNESCO-related human resource development initiatives under the
Malaysian Ministry of Information, she has embarked on reference modeling as a
means to identify and synergize commonalities across physical and disciplinary
boundaries.
As
recognition of her professional contribution and activities, she has obtained
recognition as an IEEE Senior member, serves in several editorial boards and
participated as a program committee member for several international
conferences. She was recently awarded a Fulbright Fellowship under the
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program to Lehigh University (Jan 2009) and Georgia
Institute of Technology (Feb – June 2009) and is the 2009 Ten Outstanding Young
Malaysian Honoree for Science and Technological Development.