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2017

ARTICLE

1. Abdullah Al Mamun, Nik Maheran Binti Nik Muhammad and Mohammad Bin Ismail (2017) Absorptive Capacity, Innovativeness and the Performance of Micro-Enterprises in Malaysia, Vision—The Journal of Business Perspective, Vol. 21, No. 3, doi: 10.1177/0972262917716729 (Scopus, SAGE Publications)
2. Siti Farhah Fazira Binti Shamsudin, Abdullah Al Mamun, Noorshella Binti Che Nawi, Noorul Azwin Binti Md Nasir and Mohd Nazri Bin Zakaria (2017), Factors Affecting Entrepreneurial Intention among Malaysian University Students, Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 423-431. doi: 10.1353/jda.2017.0111 (ERA – B)
3. Wan Mohd Nazdrol bin Wan Mohd Nasir, Abdullah Al Mamun and John Breen (2017) Strategic Orientation and Performance of SME’s in Malaysia, SAGE Open, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 1-13, doi: 10.1177/2158244017712768 (Scopus, ESCI, SAGE Publications)
4. Nur Fadiah Binti Mohd Zawawi, Sazali Abd Wahab and Abdullah Al Mamun (2017), Logistics Capability, Logistics Performance and Moderating Effect of Firm Size: Empirical Evidence from East Coast Malaysia, Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 171-182. doi: 10.1353/jda.2017.0038 (ERA – B)
5. Noorshella Binti Che Nawi, Abdullah Al Mamun, Noorul Azwin Binti Md Nasir, Noorlisa Maria bt A. Hamid Shokery, Nursalihah Binti Ahmad Raston and Syed Ali Fazal (2017), The Acceptance and Usage of Social Media as a Platform among Student Entrepreneurs, Journal of Small Business & Enterprise Development, Vol. 24, No. 2. pp. 375-393, doi. 10.1108/JSBED-09-2016-0136. (Scopus, ESSI, Emerald)
6. Noorshella Binti Che Nawi and Abdullah Al Mamun (2017) Customer Satisfaction of Online Apparel Businesses in Malaysia: Point-Purchase and Post-Purchase Comparison. International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, Vol. 12, No. 3. pp. 386-405 doi: 10.1504/IJBIR.2017.10002772 (Scopus, Inderscience Publishers)
7. Abdullah Al Mamun, Wan Mohd Nazdrol Bin Wan Mohd Nasir, Mohamed Dahlan Ibrahim, Rajennd A/L Muniady and Kumaraguru Sivageahnam (2017) Persuasion, Consumer Engagement and Performance of Malaysian Manufacturing Enterprises. Advanced Science Letters, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 2922-2924, (Scopus)
8. Abdullah Al Mamun and Wan Mohd Nazdrol Bin Wan Mohd Nasir (2017) Effect of Market and Interaction Orientation on Innovation Orientation and Enterprise Performance, Advanced Science Letters, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 2925-2928 (Scopus)
9. Nurshahida Binti Mohamad Razali, Abdullah Al Mamun, Mohd Nazri Bin Zakaria, C. A. Malarvizh and Noorshella Binti Che Nawi (2017) Decision Centric Knowledge Management System for Manufacturing SMEs: a Conceptual Framework, Advanced Science Letters, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 2938-2941 (Scopus)
10. Abdullah Al Mamun, Shaw Pui Fong and Noorshella Binti Che Nawi (2017) Entrepreneurship Education and Students’ Career Choice, Advanced Science Letters, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 2954-2957 (Scopus)
11. Abdullah Al Mamun (2017) Innovation Among Manufacturing SMEs: A Cross-Industry Comparison, Advanced Science Letters, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 2658-2662 (Scopus)
12. Siti Farhah Fazira Binti Shamsudin, Abdullah Al Mamun, Noorshella Binti Che Nawi, Noorul Azwin Binti Md Nasir, and Mohd Nazri Bin Zakaria (2017), Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Intention and the Moderating Role of Entrepreneurship Education: A Conceptual Model, Advanced Science Letters, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 3006-3008, (Scopus)
13. Derweanna Bah Simpong, Abdullah Al Mamun, Mohd. Rosli Mohamad, Norsiah Mat, and Isidore Ekpe (2017), Examining the factors influencing Youth’s Leadership Participation in Malaysia. International Review of Management and Marketing, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 313-325 (Indexed)
14. Abdullah Al Mamun, Rajennd A/L Muniady, Noorshella Binti Che Nawi, C. A. Malarvizhi, P. Yukthamarani Permarupan (2017) Innovativeness, Absorptive Capacity and Innovation among Malaysian Micro-Enterprises: a Cross-Industry and Cross-State Comparison, Advanced Science Letters, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 894-896 doi: 10.1166/asl.2017.7429 (Scopus)
15. Nur Fadiah Binti Mohd Zawawi, Sazali Abdul Wahab, Abdullah Al Mamun, Ghazali Bin Ahmad and Syed Ali Fazal (2017) Logistics Capability, Information Technology and Innovation Capability of Logistics Service Providers: Empirical Evidence from East Coast Malaysia, International Review of Management and Marketing, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 326-336 (Scopus)
16. Roselina Ahmad Saufi, Yang Xin, Cheng Hongyun, Siti Aishah Berhan and Abdullah Al Mamun (2017) The relationship between personality dimensions and employee job commitment in Private Higher Learning Institutions, International Review of Management and Marketing, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 428-432 (Scopus).
17. Nik Zulkarnaen Khidzir, Khairul Azhar Bin Mat Daud and Mohd AsrulHery Ibrahim (2017) Virtual Learning Environments (VLES): The Development of Student’s Learning Domains at Higher Learning Institution (HLI), International Journal of Recent Advances in Multidisciplinary Research, Vol. 4, Issue 4, pp. 2460-2464

 
CONFERENCE/PROCEEDING

1. Abdullah Al Mamun, Muhammad Mohiuddin, Syed Ali Fazal, Mohammad Bin Ismail and Mohd Asrul Hery Bin Ibrahim (In Review), Effect of Entrepreneurial and Market Orientation on Consumer Engagement and Performance of Malaysian Manufacturing SMEs, Annual Conference of the Canadian Council for SMEs and Entrepreneurship (CCSBE), May 11 to 13, 2017 in Québec City, Canada. pp. 229-243

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E-Learning Training @UMK and MOOC Development

The Workshop Idea

After completion of Delphi Study in previous MEDLIT Delphi Final Conference that was held in Hanoi, the following package was initiated by its Leader, Dr. Marlies Bitter-Rijpkema (OUNL). With the results and insights of the Delphi Study, important puzzle parts were uncovered. Hence, this will be the foundation for the MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) on “Media Empowerment & Responsibility”; which will be the central aspect of the second year of the MEDLIT project.

To shape a shared understanding and knowledge of MOOC creation, two parallel workshops are planned; the first one is to train lecturers and the other for the training of technicians on collaborative MOOC development. To enhance collaboration and achieve collective synergies, both workshops conducted simultaneously from March 6th to 10th2017. The workshop is held at Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) City Campus in Kota Bharu, Malaysia.

Five lecturers and three technicians of every Asian partner university are expected to participate in the workshop. The objectives of the workshop are to create knowledge transfer platform in relation to didactic principles, to have discussions about known challenges and ultimately to build a shared knowledge base on common university software systems and programming in the field of E-Learning. We also invited an external expert of MOOC, Professor Dato’ Dr. Mohamed Amin Embi from National University of Malaysia (UKM) to share his fruitful and informative insights and experiences on MOOC development.

Activities in UMK MEDLIT E-Learning Training

No	Activities	Description
1	MOOC Success Factors MOOC Contents Development & Delivery Strategies Invited Speaker: Prof. Dato’ Dr. Mohamed Amin Embi, from National University of Malaysia (UKM)		The activities was prone to hands-on activities of MOOC development, led by Prof. Dato’ Dr. Mohamed Amin. He is using Open Learning website to guide and insight participants as well as shared his vast experience on MOOC development in National University of Malaysia (UKM). participants regarding success and experience Thus, there is no specific power point presentation slides (PPPs) from him.
2	Story Board Development Training & Hands-on of Video Conventional & animation tools for teaching MOOC Recording Preparation By: UMK & OUNL Facilitators (led by Mr. Mhd Hafiz Karami Mhd Zain		The activities are fully conducted by UMK & OUNL facilitators, led by Mr. Mhd Hafiz Karami Mhd Zain. The activities mainly focused on hands-on to develop Story Board and prepare MOOC Recording. Thus, none of specific power point presentation slides (PPPs) were used in these activities.
3	Workshop Round-Up & Conclusions By: Dr. Marlies Bitter-Rijpkema, Prof. Dr. Nik Maheran Nik Muhammad and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Suria Baba		The workshop round-up and conclusion were made in ‘open table discussion’ mode. Therefore, none of specific power point presentation slides (PPPs) was used.

 Financial Sustainability of MOOC

For UMK, MOOC is a big agenda for the University. The University is going to embark on project for the preparation of MOOC by about 70% of the courses offered before the year ends. Thus, MOOC is here to stay at UMK for a long period of time, including the MOOC related to media literacy. To ensure the sustainability , UMK has established the MOOC Production Centre supported by a strong production team with the cost of up to RM60,000.

Thus,  UMK has actually allocated budget to run the centre. This will obviously,   provide the financial sustainability for MOOC, which is part of our long term planning. . The MOOC centre serves as CGI room, which is an important facility to develop MOOC. Participant from each partner fully utilize the MOOC centre to build their respective MOOC. At the end of the workshop, they have successfully developed MOOC based on media literacy contents. The utilization and usage of UMK’s MOOC centre is NOT ONLY limited to the workshop and MEDLIT partners. We are also offering the MOOC centre to other higher learning institution in Malaysia and perhaps for the Southeast Asia as well, if they need it. Through this, it will help to further embark and strengthen MOOC development, locally, internationally and in worldwide. This will make the RM60,000 spent to build the MOOC centre is totally worth for long term !!!

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Multiplier-effect of Workshop Content

A consecutive series of workshops have been organized by partner universities. The main objective of this consecutive series of workshop  is  to provide the platform not only to discuss the finding and output but also to disseminate and share the new impact of media on the society. The outputs obtained from the  1st workshop will be utilized as important inputs/key elements/objectives to design/organize 2nd workshop and so on. Eventually, the final workshop will generate huge outputs/impacts in terms of using MEDLIT to cause social change, reflecting the concept of multiplier-effect of the MEDLIT workshop series.

The first introductory workshop  was  held in Heerleen, The Netherlands which was considered    an excellent introduction  of media literacy, media system and media competency.  The workshop was conducted to illustrate how media has change the world history and the development  of human intellectuality.  This is the basis for further multiplication of media awareness  since the workshop provided  the background on the way forward for the project. Later a series of workshop were organized which gradually became a multiplying effect on the knowledge on media.

Throughout the workshop, it can observed the learning, awareness and sharing  process on media  took place resulting in an increasing level of knowledge and experiences among the participating members in the partner universities. For example, the workshop in Universiti Malaysia Kelantan has resulted in an extensive learning on MOOC development by 50 individuals  which will then be carried out in their respective countries. In the respective countries, we expected another set of people will be exposed to the MOOC development, which will multiply to many more not in the partner university and the community around it.

We realized that media is something universal and touches  the interest of every member of the society. The multiplying effect of the project is extremely obvious because it affected in many socio-economic areas in the community.

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NATIONAL GRANT