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of Foundation Studies in Science from 1996-1998. In 1997, she wasawarded the British High Commissioner’s Chevening Awards Scheme:Royal Society Malaysian Fellowship 1997/98, to undertake a 9-monthsresearch in the area of Transition Metal Chemistry/ OrganometallicChemistry at the University of Wales, Bangor, UK. She published 6 majorpapers in the area of Organometallic Chemistry out of the work carriedout in Wales. In 2001, Dr Latifah was awarded the American FulbrightFellowship, to carry out a joint research at the Chemistry Department,University of North Carolina, USA (Forgo the offer to accept the offerfrom OUM). She has published nearly 40 papers in refereed journals,proceedings, reports and books and has been very active in manyconferences and seminars in the area of Chemistry locally andinternationally. She is active in research, particularly on the studentretention at OUM.Norhaizan Mat TalhaNorhaizan Mat Talha has been a researcher in MIMOS Berhad for the lasteleven years. Her area of research includes fiber optics, AsynchronousTransfer Mode (ATM), Network Management, Open source and the latest,metadata for web resources and learning object. She is now in charge ofcontent acquisition and aggregation for the Malaysian Grid for Learningportal. She graduated from University College of Swansea, Wales with anhonours degree in Physics with Laser Physics.Dr Norizan Abdul RazakDr Norizan Abdul Razak is a lecturer at School of Language Studies andLinguistics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UniversitiKebangsaan Malaysia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Western IllinoisUniversity and later received her Master of Arts in TESOL fromUniversity of Northern Iowa. She attained her doctoral degree inComputer in Education from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. She haspublished articles related to CALL and E-learning in international andnational journal and her publications include a book on ComputerAssisted Language Learning: Some Pedagogical Issues (1998). Currentlyshe is the executive editor of Internet Journal of E-Language Learning andTeaching. Her research interests are in CALL, ICT competency standardsand online testing. She is one of the team members who conceptualizedand developed the online computer competency test for UKM and onlineEnglish language test for UKM academic and support staff.Dr Norrizan RazaliDr Norrizan Razali heads the Smart School Flagship at the MultimediaDevelopment Cooperation under the Multimedia Super Corridor Project.As a Senior Manager for the Smart School Flagship, she was involved incoordinating and monitoring the implementation of the smart school pilotJoint Study by MEWC and OUM 151