Conceptualizing Security Measures on Mobile Learning for Malaysian Higher Education Institutions

AbstractThe paper examines the existing researchers view on security measures on mobile learning. In general, it discovers related measure on security which includes reliability, trust, privacy and security itself. Each measure is widely used as determinants in previous studies and its range in some environments and perspectives. Reliability and security determinants are widely adapted to measure in terms of the infrastructure of mobile learning environment, while trust and privacy mostly measure behaviours and perceptions from the user or human towards mobile learning. Furthermore, the study will also investigate the infrastructure and components of mobile learning itself in order to determine the security vulnerabilities that may involve in the mobile learning environment. Other security features that are discussed at glance include the key distribution and management, information confidentiality and privacy, secure routing, intrusion detection, data integrity, entity authentication and secure data aggregation. However, at the end of this study, mapping on the relevent security measures with each component of mobile learning will be formulated for further study

Learning Styles of Non-Science and Technology (S&T) Students on Technical Courses / Noraizan Amran, Farrah Diana Saiful Bahry, Zulkefli Mohd Yusop... [et.al].

This study seeks to identify learning styles of students who have little or no background in Science & Technology subjects and are taking technical courses at university level. Understanding students‘ preferred learning styles will help instructors in developing curriculum and teaching techniques to suit students‘ needs. The objectives of the study are: 1. To identify the preferred learning styles of non-Science and Technology (S&T) students on technical courses. 2. To examine the differences in learning styles between male and female students, their academic achievements, and their programs of study. The study poses two research questions: 1. What is the preferred learning style of non-S&T students on technical courses? 2. Are there significant differences in learning styles between the students‘ gender, their programs of studies and the academic achievements of the technical courses? The instrument used to identify students‘ learning styles is Barsch Learning Style Inventory (BLSI) invented by Jeffrey R. Barsch, EdD (1996) which can be easily completed by students. A group of 200 students from Faculty of Information Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia, who registered for the course Database Management System in semester 2009/2010 were invited to take part in the study. They were asked to answer 24 statements in BLSI instrument, at the beginning of the semester. A total of 122 completed responses were used for data analysis using Excel and descriptive statistics. The findings indicate that most students prefer Visual learning style and least number of them prefer Kinesthetic learning style. This result applies to all male and female students in all programs of studies and for different levels of academic achievements. The findings are useful for curriculum designers, instructors, lecturers and policy makers who are involved in one way or others in teaching and learning, and designing the curriculum. Most of all, the students themselves can take appropriate steps to enhance their capability to learn by knowing which learning style best suits their natural preference. Further research should be conducted to more, if not all students, so that more data can be used to further verify the reliability and validity of the Barsch instrument among Malaysian students, and to compare with previous studies from other students in other countries

Internet usage behaviors among young teenagers

This study identifies the Malaysian suburban young teenagers’ behavior on internet usage: types of information, online activities, and internet topic of interest. This study also investigates the relationship between gender and internet usage behavior. A set of 350 questionnaires have been distributed to a group of young teenagers’ age 11-12 years old in Year Six of primary schools in suburbs of Selangor. A total of 297 completed responses have been received and analyzed using Microsoft Excel and SPSS. The findings indicate that although young teenagers at suburban prefer to search entertainment information, do leisure activities and are interested in non-serious topic, most of the time, they still search information, do online activities and interested on educational information at other time. Further research can be conducted on information content preferences of young teenagers in other parts of Malaysia

Malaysian Homeland Warriors’ Stories: Database repository design and implementation

 Increasing demand for information retrieval on the World Wide Web and the need for a database repository to efficiently manage web content. Aim to design a repository focused on Malaysian Homeland Fighters, ensuring the secure preservation and retrieval of legitimate information about Malaysian historians and fighters. Combination of the Web Archive Life Cycle (WALC) and Database Life Cycle (DBLC) methodologies used to identify relevant web content, design the repository, and develop a user-friendly interface. This initiative aims to preserve and authenticate historical web content, serving as a knowledge hub for Malaysians to connect sustainably with the past