I checked my email today (20 May 2019, Monday). My former student sent me an email letting me know about his paper has been published at a journal. Alhamdulillah. To know more, you can go the Jurnal Kemanusiaan
It is about the experiences of teachers using Frog VLE
It is made compulsory for all teachers in Malaysia to use Frog VLE as a part of their teaching practice. It is similar to UTM elearning but the features are slightly different. If you are not a teacher, parent or student, you might not be able to use it because your account will be inactive because there will be no interactive activities that you can link to parents and students.
When he first came to see me to discuss about this issue, I was worried because he might find it difficult to find relevant references relating to Frog VLE because it is fairly new thing. This was few years ago. But I told him, “Nazry, just go for it. In sha Allah your study will benefit other researchers who want to explore this issue.“
He is one of the students who would be “the darling” of all supervisors. He is hardworking, diligent, meticulous and resilient. There were times when he felt to change the direction of his research. I told him to stay focused. “Nazry, it is not easy to get data but you have to be persistent. Don’t give up, It is quite a normal phenomenon to meet people who hesitate to be your respondents in your study. But, you need to highlight their importance in helping others to understand any issue relating to the challenges that they face to use Frog VLE. Doing a research means that not only you will understand certain issue better but you can help others to understand the issue better especially when you publish your work“. When I said that, he seemed to be motivated to stay focused because this time around, he has another aim: to publish his work.
I always say the same kind of things to my research students, yet only a handful would like to take the challenge to publish their work. Some are quite complacent to just finish their work and put their thesis on the shelves for display.