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Associate Professor Dr. Siew Fun Tang is the Dean of Learning and Teaching at Taylor's University, Malaysia. In her own research, Dr. Tang explores academic performance, evaluation and development. Her research works have been presented and published in national and international conferences and journals. She was invited by the Malaysian Ministry of Education to share her research findings on the assessment of teaching performance. Dr. Swi Ee Cheah, Ph.D., is the Associate Dean of Postgraduate, Research and Innovation at the School of Education, Taylor's University, Malaysia. Dr. Cheah is also the Chief Editor for Journal of Interdisciplinary Research in Education and has served on the editorial board for various national and international conference proceedings and journals. Her research interests include Classroom Research, Sociocultural Studies, Global Education, Pedagogical Innovations, and TESOL/TESL.

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Part I: Student Experiences and Social Emotional development.- Chapter 1. Correlation Study Between CGPA and PO Attainment.- Chapter 2. Competency based assessment of the diploma in Phlebotomy graduates: An initial evaluation.- Chapter 3. Redesigning Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) Based on Lecturers' Perception.- Chapter 4. Service Quality of Higher Education institution among its international Students: Inputs to competitive University Image.- Chapter 5. An exploratory study of sociocultural adaptation among International students in Malaysia.- Chapter 6. First Year Experience (FYE) Curriculum Review for Academic, Social and Emotional Connect.- Chapter 7. Social Media Dependency: The Implications of Technological Communication Use amongst University Students.- Chapter 8. The Mediating Role of Shadow Education (SE) Participation on Goal Orientation, Study Habits, Connectedness and Academic Performance.- Part II: Culture of Teaching and Learning.- Chapter 1. Blended Learning: Uncovering Challenges in Implementing Online Videos in Higher Education.- Chapter 2. Conceptualising Humour to Enhance Learning Among Engineering Undergraduates.- Chapter 3. Scaffolding Social Support Amongst the Fresher Students Through Mapping Activities.- Chapter 4. Teacher Behavior and its Relation to Performance in Health Related Courses.- Chapter 5. The Effects of School Culture Impacting on the Process of Change.- Chapter 6. An exploratory study on the role of blended learning practices to achieve 21st Century Skills among culinary students at University in Malaysia.- Chapter 7. Transforming Teaching-Learning Culture by Appropriate use of Discrimination Index in Item Analysis.- Chapter 8. Item Difficulty and Discrimination Index in Single Best Answer MCQ:-End of Semester Examinations at Taylor's Clinical School.- Chapter 9. Types of School, Medium of Instruction and Students' Academic Performance in Business Studies at Pre-university.- Chapter 10. Rasch Model Approach toAnalyse Quality of Preservice Teachers' Teaching Behaviour to Pedagogy Content Knowledge.- Part III: Technology as best Practices in Teaching and Learning.- Chapter 1. Interactive and Engaging Module Sites: The RASA Model.- Chapter 2. SemanticCheck - A Semantic Based lagiarism Checker.- Chapter 3. Technology Innovation in Dairy Farm Management.- Chapter 4. Participation, Produsage and Pedagogy: Social Media as a Tool to Enhance Teaching and Learning Experience.- Chapter 5. WikiDoc-Integrating Wikipedia Semantic for Document Assistance.- Chapter 6. Supervised Educational Data Mining to Discover Students Learning Process to Improve Students' Performance.- Chapter 7. EFFECTIVENESS OF THE INTEGRATION OF TELL ME MORE COURSEWARE IN THE TOEIC PERFORMANCE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS.- Chapter 8. Appropriate use of technology: How useful are calculations of discrimination index by optical mark readers in item analysis of single best answer MCQ tests with small student numbers?.- Chapter 9. Undergraduate Students' Perceptions as Producer of Screencast Videos in Learning Mathematics.- Part IV: Innovative Practices in Teaching and Learning.- Chapter 1. Assessment of Media Literacy Campaign for Grade4 Pupils at a Public Elementary School in the Philippines.- Chapter 2 . Graduate Tracer Study for Industrial Engineering Program from Batch 2013-2015.- Chapter 3. The Effectiveness of MOOC Among Learners Based on Kirkpatrick's Model.- Chapter 4. Changes in Students' Level of Awareness of Social Topics through Project Based Learning in the Intensive English Program at Taylor's Centre for Languages.- Chapter 5. The Journey of TGCSP with Special Attention on Service Learning.- Chapter 6. Community Co Working Spaces: The community New Learning Space in Thailand.- Chapter 7. The Effectiveness and Impact of Social Media Approach on Students Learning Performances.- Chapter 8. Formative Assessment via Group Video Assignment for Business School Students in Tertiary Education System.- Chapter 9. Education as a Political Tool for Empowering Students and the Community.- Chapter 10. The Impact of Experiential Learning Program towards Graduates' Career Capabilities.