e-learning readiness - Asia Pacific Region - Open University Malaysia

Currently Fitri is on study leave at University of London, UnitedKingdom, pursuing her doctorial studies at the Institute of Education.Associate Professor Dr Halimah AwangDr Halimah Awang is an Associate Professor and Head of theDepartment of Administrative Studies and Politics, Faculty of Economicsand Administration (FEA), University of Malaya. Dr Halimah Awangstudied at Northern Illinois University, USA and obtained her Bachelor ofScience in Applied Mathematics in 1977 and Master of Science in AppliedProbability and Statistics in 1978. She later obtained a PhD in AppliedStatistics from Macquarie University, Australia in 1998. She was a lecturerat the Department of Applied Statistics, FEA from 1985 to 2000. Thecourses she has taught include research methodology, managementtechniques, quantitative analysis and statistical data analysis both at theundergraduate and postgraduate levels.Dr Halimah has undertaken a number of research projects sponsored byIRPA, United Nations Fund for Population Activities, the Ministry ofNational Unity and Social Development, the National Population andFamily Development Board and the University of Malaya. Her researchcovers a wide range of topics including demography, biostatistics, genderand Information Technology, and socio-economic studies.Associate Professor Dr Kuldip KaurDr Kuldip Kaur is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, Artsand Social Sciences at the Open University Malaysia. She was previouslyAssociate Professor at the Department of Languages and LiteracyEducation at the Faculty of Education, University of Malaya. Dr Kuldipreceived a doctorate in education (Ph. D.) in English Education fromSyracuse University in 1991. She has researched widely and haspublished several chapters and articles on teaching-learning methodologyand online learning. Dr Kuldip is also the Chief Editor of The EnglishTeacher, a Journal of the Malaysian English Language TeachingAssociation, and is a member of the Asia TEFL Council.Associate Professor Dr Latifah Abdol LatifDr Latifah Abdol Latif joined OUM in 2002 as an Associate Professor inthe Faculty of Science and Foundation Studies, Open University Malaysiaand Director of Centre of Student Affairs, from 1 st July 2003. She hasserved as a Chemistry tutor at the Pusat Asasi Sains, University of Malayain 1980. Four years during the tenure as a tutor, she obtained her PhD inthe area of Organometallic Chemistry (University of Sussex, Brighton,UK) and held a lecturer post from 1984 to 1995. She was appointed theHead of Chemistry Division in 1987, and later in 1995 as an AssociateProfessor. Between 1992 and 1996 she was again appointed the Head ofChemistry Division, and was later appointed the Deputy Director, CentreJoint Study by MEWC and OUM 150