Saturday, 5 April 2025
音韵人生:我与音乐的若即若离
Sunday, 4 December 2022
Managing your research
马斯克说过:
高手做管理都擅长把工作4化:
复杂的事情简单化,
简单的事情流程化,
流程化的事情标准化
标准化的事情制度化。
Complex > Simplify > Processtize > Standardize > Institutionalize
工资是发给日常工作的人: Salary is paid to people who work on daily basis;
高薪是发给承担责任的人: High salaries go to those who take responsibility
奖金是发给做出结果的人: Bonus is given to those who produce results
股权是发给能干忠诚的人: Equity is issued to capable and loyal people
荣誉是发给有理想抱负的人: Honor is given to those who have ideals and ambitions.
辞退信是送给没结果,还耍个性的人
Sunday, 21 August 2022
Indexing with Clarivate
I attended the Webinar of Former Pengarah Penerbit UTEM, Ts. Dr. Siti Nurul Mahfuzah Mohamad.
Monday, 25 July 2022
Reading "Inventology: How we dream up things that change the world" by Pagan Kennedy
2016: Boston - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Problem Finding
1: Martian Jet Lag
2: User-inventors
3: Someone else's shoes
4: The future of feedback
Part 2: Discovery
5: Super-encounters
6: Data goggles
7: Building an empire out of nothing
Part 3: Prophecy
8: The Pong effect
9: The Wayne Gretzky game
10: The mind's R&D lab
11: How to time-travel
Part 4: Connecting
12: The go-betweens
13: Zones of permission
14: Holistic invention
Part 5: Empowerment
15: Paper eyes
16: Tinkering with education
Conclusion
Thursday, 21 July 2022
FAQ for proposal defence with UCSI University
Herewith the FAQ I asked my students to prepare, which I found here at https://bemoacademicconsulting.com/blog/thesis-defense-questions
1. What is your research study all about?
2. Why did you choose this study?
3. Why did you choose this particular title for your research?
4. What is the scope of your study?
5. What phenomenon were you trying to understand with this research?
6. Who will be most interested in your research?
7. Did your research questions evolve during the process? If so, how?
8. What gaps did you intend to bridge with your research?
9. Why is your research significant?
10. Why did you choose this research methodology?
11. What sources did you plan for data collection?
12. How can your research be put into practice?
13. How will your findings contribute to the related area of knowledge?
14. What sampling techniques do you plan to use?
15. What instruments do you plan to use to collect data?
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
How to achieve what you want? By Dr Shane Murphy
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Bengkel Penerbitan dan Penulisan Artikel Systematic Literature Review
I am attending a workshop conducted by Dr Wan Azani Wan Mustafa.
He wrote 60 articles in 1 year for the past 4 years (H-Index 15).
We should write for WoS articles with impact factors (Q1 and Q2), "Kita yang macam2-kan sendiri, target yang paling tinggi."
There is no method or results in SLR paper.
Research article: methods & results.
SLR can be done in a room, no need to collect data.
Every scholar in Malaysia must own 3 accounts: Google Scholar, SCOPUS ID, Publons Web of Science ResearcherID
Purpose of academic writing: KPIs, reward, satisfaction
If your research is not published in a journal, it does not exist.
Mitos:
1. Artikel panjang tak semestinya accept. Tak tengok panjang pendek.
Mistake:
Do not wait! Target 1000, can start to write when you have around 300 (as the first paper); 700 (can be another paper); 1000 (3rd paper).
研究员(包括我)经常犯的错误,就是等到数据收集完结后才做分析,才发文章。整个数据收集过程可以分成最少三次发文章的机会:早期(pilot study paper)、中期(interim analysis paper)和后期(research paper)。如果想收集的数据总量是1000人,早期分析(100人)、中期分析(500人)和后期分析(1000人)都可以发一篇文章。
Every June, Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) will release a report on citation indexed.
Netherland: SCOPUS = 21 areas (40,000 journals)
US: Web of Science = 15,000 journals in SCOPUS
Q in SCOPUS is not same Q in ISI
Quartile is based on impact factor, i.e. no impact factor, no Q.
Q1 or Q2 in Web of Science ISI are the highest in the world.
SCOPUS adalah badan indexing. 21 criteria must be fulfilled to be indexed by SCOPUS.
SCOPUS keluarkan listing 3 kali setahun, boleh download di website SCOPUS. March
Must check with SCOPUS listing before submission.
SCOPUS
- Life sciences
- Health
- Physical science
- Social science
Not all WoS are ISI
Bukan semua WoS ada impact factor:
- Only SCI expanded and SSCI are indexed with impact factor.
Comments paper = 2 pages
40 - 50 references for Research Article
Review article
Comprehensive / critical review on specific research topic
Typically 15+ pages (not more than 20 pages), 5+ figures (copy from reviewed papers with full citation), table of summary and 70 - 200 references.
Tak baca, tak download pun.
Structure of a manuscript for Review Article
- Title
- Affiliation
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 1. Introduction / Literature review
- 2. Conclusion/s
- Acknowledgements
- References
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
How to boost SCOPUS H-Index?
I was asked to boost my SCOPUS H-Index, from current 7 to 10 by 31 Aug 2022. H-Index 10 means I would need to have 10 SCOPUS indexed publication with 10 citation. In this sense Herewith the strategies and tactics to achieve the target:
Passive approach
1. Upload my publications in ResearchGate
2. Encourage past, current and future co-authors to cite those articles in their papers.
Active approach
1. Write reflection, concept or LR papers myself that would cite those papers.
- One article on Object-Oriented Programming
- One article on STEM education
- One article on the potential of GBL
- One article on gamification
- One article on educational technology
2. Work with current and past postgraduate students to write conference papers and journal articles
- Revisit completed postgraduate research, preliminary studies or pilot studies
- Write concept papers based on the proposed model, provisional framework, guiding principles to be tested in doctoral research proposal
- Write scoping LR and/or systematic LR done for the proposed research topic and scope
3. Work with current and future colleagues to write conference papers and journal articles
Thursday, 31 March 2022
量化博士研究进度
Monday, 10 January 2022
How to assess a programme?
1. Download all the documents provided by MQA
2. Print the MQA Programme Standard documents
3. Assess each area of the programme based on the standard document.
General Flow of PhD Study in Creative Multimedia
Step 2: Create a provisional theoretical framework for producing the chosen media which contains elements, components or variables being studied.
Step 3: Produce an instance of the media based on the provisional framework.
Step 4: Develop data collection instruments (e.g. questionnaire survey, interview questions etc)
Step 6: Analyze collected data using qualitative approach, quantitative approach or a mixed of both.
Step 7. Revise the framework based on the research findings and suggest a list of guiding principles for others to use the framework
Saturday, 28 August 2021
Researcher Development Framework
It was a bliss to see a PhD student of mine took the initiative to learn AMOS for running SEM. This reminds me of the good old day when I was pursuing a PhD in Warwick Institute of Education.
Back then, the Postgraduate Studies Institute conducted weekly courses or training programmes for all doctoral researchers. The institute was the training hub for Vitae (https://www.vitae.ac.uk/), where students from all universities located in the Midlands of England would come and join those courses. I considered myself as very lucky as I did not need to travel afar to take these courses, I rode on my red bicycle instead.
In the initial meetings with my supervisors, Sue and Sean walked through the Researcher Development Framework with me, guiding me to plan for my research training programme. A balanced and established academic researcher should have sufficient knowledge and research skills in every quadrant. Ideally, a PhD student should plan and arrange suitable training for himself or herself through the course of 3 years study. Herewith the framework
I attended almost all short and long term courses offered by Vitae in 2008 - 2010, and was chosen as one of the best doctoral student in the Midlands, England. Back then my intention was to learn as many as I can, so that I can teach postgraduate courses in UPSI upon the completion of my PhD. Ironically, until now, I have no experience of teaching any postgraduate course in UPSI.
I used to have several postgraduate students concurrently, while quite a lot of my colleagues do not have any student. After becoming a supervisor, I organised courses for my postgraduate students in 2013 - 2015 on every Friday and Saturday, and the courses were occasionally attended by other supervisors' students. But after awhile, even my own students did not attend those courses. Worse, my colleagues complained to me that I had negatively influenced their students--their students wanted to change supervisors. So, I learned my lesson and stopped offering those courses. I also discovered that, my courses were threatening existing trainers who charged students for similar courses. From that point onward, my supervision strategy changed to one-on-one basis. Only when my student wants and needs to learn specific knowledge or skills in research, I will guide him or her. If the student stops, I stop as well.
These are my personal experience and opinion, and they cannot be referred as a standard practice in UPSI or any other institutions. I just do what I believe is good for the student.
Sunday, 4 April 2021
KURSUS METODOLOGI PASCASISWAZAH FSSK, UMS
Wednesday, April 7⋅3:00 – 4:00pm
Location: https://join.skype.com/WKUDlbNyqS0I
Thursday, 1 April 2021
How to design and develop a course
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Tuesday, 22 September 2020
Verifying Correction of Thesis / Dissertation
Step 1: Make sure the candidate used the correct format of "Laporan Pembetulan Tesis"
Step 2: Make sure the candidate copy all comments from all examiners plus notes taken by the supervisor
Step 3: Verify the organization of comments, chapter by chapter
Step 4: Make sure every comment and note is addressed in the Laporan together with exact page number.
Step 5: Cross-check every item stated in the Laporan with the actual page, paragraph and sentences in the thesis
Step 6: Add comment for requesting further correction
Step 7: Edit typo and grammatical errors
Step 8: Chop and sign for verification
Thursday, 3 September 2020
Interns should learn to grow up by themselves (translated from my article wrote for Sinchew Daily)
Since Malaysia implemented different stages of Movement Control Order in March this year, I have been receiving internship applications from many local universities at Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI) and asked me to be their industrial supervisor. The applicants are all diploma and bachelor degree students, studying computing or creative multimedia programmes. In the past, the preferred location for such students was Klang Valley, and very few students were willing to go to a relatively town of Tanjong Malim for an internship. Perhaps, under the new normal, a sparsely populated environment can make people feel that they will have a lower chance of catching the Covid-19 virus and feel at ease. Of course, it is more likely that industrial training and internship opportunities have been affected and become scarce in today’s sluggish labor market.
Universities in Malaysia that offer diploma and bachelor
degree programmes in computing or creative multimedia must follow the standards of the Malaysian
Qualifications Agency (MQA) to prepare all students to complete a 2 to 6 months
industrial training or internship in order to gain preliminary work experience in
the industry and to improve the soft skills needed for future employment. For
interns, in addition to having the opportunity to demonstrate knowledge and
skills learned in the university, the monthly allowance provided by the
employer during the internship is their main concern. Taking UPSI students as an
example, the amount is solely determined by the employer, and the university
will not intervene or interfere with the decision.
To encourage employers in the private sector to offer
training for interns, the Ministry of Human Resource Malaysia has arranged an
Industrial Training Scheme (ITS) for all tax-paying employers to apply. Under
the new normal, a part from getting a set of personal protective equipment
(PPE), each hired intern can also afford his or her employer to receive a
monthly allowance of maximum RM500.
All these while, students who are undergoing internship at
UPSI, regardless of which university they come from, will not receive any
allowance from the university and all its subsidiaries. However, lecturers who
play the role of industry supervisors can subsidize the interns out of their
own pockets, or they can use their own research and development project funds
to pay students on a pay-for-work basis to help students coping with basic
living expenses during the internship.
Of course, there are still many students who receive no
allowance at all. In addition, from time to time, there were employers who broke
their promises, and did not pay allowance after the start of the internship,
resulting in students being unable to pay the rent for short-term accommodation
and being displaced. Students may also face the dilemma of company closing down
during the internship or being fired by the company before completing the
internship. Whenever an intern complains such matters to me, I will tell them
that this is the real life they have to face after graduation! When they were
still students, there were lecturers who helped them solving their problems,
and once they graduated, they have to reply on themselves. People should learn
to grow up by themselves.
In general, students either go to the industry for an internship after completing all courses, or they undergo the internship first, and then return to the university to complete the final year project (FYP) in the final semester. Both arrangements have their pros and cons. The former is the most preferred in the eyes of the industry because the internship program allows relevant employers to select suitable graduates directly as employees of the company. If students have to return to the university to complete their studies after completing the internship, it is difficulty to reserve half a year for the vacancy of the company. Even if the vacancy was really reserved for the interns, they may change their employment options after graduation. For the lecturers who are in charge of FYP, students who have accumulated internship experience will be more pragmatic and mature when doing the FYP, and the quality of project outcomes will be better—this is of great help to students when they are searching for job after graduation. Regardless of the arrangement, interns should accumulate practical experience in the industry as much as possible, paving the way for a career that is full of challenges and opportunities, so that they can walk out of their own growing path under the new normal.
Source in Chinese: https://www.sinchew.com.my/content/content_2336747.html
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
Tuesday, 28 July 2020
Sketchy notes on PhD research study
Thursday, 19 March 2020
行动管制令
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