Category: Education

  • The Future of Digital Identity and Privacy

    Everything can be digitized, and digitalized. we live in a digitized and digitalized world today. Living, working, traveling has impacted tremendously all without even noticing how governments and businesses all over world are capturing our personal data of faces, finger prints, shapes, sizes at the point of entry, exit, using AI mother tongue language translation…

  • Discovering Purpose: Islamic Niyyah Meets Japanese Ikigai

    The Islamic perspective of intention (niyyah) with the Japanese concept of ikigai have many common features which could be of benefit to everyone. Comparison made here with examples of daily and professional life as university lecturers and a typical Japanese salarymen. 1. Embracing the Islamic Perspective: Niyyah (Intention) as the Foundation of Purpose In Islam,…

  • Understanding Hard-working vs Working Hard in Japan

    In Japan, both “working hard” and “hard-working” carry significant cultural weight, reflecting traditional values of diligence, perseverance, and collective effort. They are rooted in Japan’s work ethic, which emphasizes dedication to one’s role and contribution to the group. What do you know about them? It is important to know the differences to achieving better performance…

  • Your Roadmap to Career Success: The PDMC Framework

    Those starting their career should realize that your success is a long journey. The journey you design can determine success, and continued success. This journey to success should begin with a clear and realistic dream of what you want to be or what you want to end up being as what Steven Covey said to…

  • Assignment Brief: Developing Global Market Strategies for Borneo Apong Golden Syrup

    BackgroundResearchers at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak have developed a new and modern technique for producing a kind of syrup from apong of the nipa palm enabling a highly consistent, high-quality Golden Syrup. This innovation has been commercialized through a cooperative scheme run by a company appointed by cooperative known as Apong Resources Sdn. Bhd. Through this…

  • Assignment Brief: Developing Global Market Strategies for Borneo Apong Golden Syrup

    BackgroundResearchers at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak have developed a new and modern technique for producing Gula Apong, one type of jaggery, enabling a consistent, high-quality syrup branded as Borneo Apong Golden Syrup. This innovation has been commercialized through a cooperative scheme involving local villagers, offering economic opportunities while maintaining the product’s authenticity and cultural significance. The…

  • Teaching and Learning Online – Some Lessons

    Tips to Online Teaching and Learning

  • Learning or Telling.. From Sage on the stage to Guide on the Side.

    Teaching is an art of getting students to learn. As teachers, we should be making students able to learn and in an effective manner. In times of Online classes or Non F2F, it is even crucial to engage our students so that they learn to think, to do things, and participate actively in their learning…

  • New semester new ideas

    This week beginning 20 Sep 2021 is the start of Fall semester in Meiji University. I will be trying to introduce some new things that I have learned in Professor Christopher Stillwell https://www.linkedin.com/in/stillwellc/ EMI-UCI Workshop during this month. Classes online from UC Irvine with lecturers of Meiji. I have always known active learning but have…

  • Professors are nurtured from Professors

    How do you define a quality professor? Recent article by one prominent leader (Tan Sri Arshad Ayub) did caused some to respond supporting or rebutting the opinion or perception. Later related issues such as questioning professors promotion in especially IPTA in recent times since ranking and RUs came to picture are much stringent then before…