Multimedia University

Dean, Institute of Postgraduate Studies, Multimedia University

Associate Professor and Dean, Institute of Postgraduate Studies

About

Dr. Mai Neo is Associate Professor and Dean, Institute of Postgraduate Studies, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia.

Mai was the former Director of R&D Collaborations, Multimedia University, and Deputy Dean of Staff and Student Affairs of the Faculty of Creative Multimedia.  She was also formerly the Faculty Internship Coordinator for the Digital Media, Film and Animation, Interface Design, Media Innovation, and Virtual Reality departments.  She teaches classes in Computer Graphics, Interactive Multimedia, Digital Media and Design Research, and Final Year Project (for Media Innovation majors) at the undergraduate level, and Masters classes in the E-Learning (with Multimedia Technologies) such as Principles of Multimedia in Educational Technology and Interactive Multimedia Development.

Mai's research interests are in the design of constructivist learning environments and supervises Masters and PhD students in the following areas:
    * Multimedia authoring technologies in the teaching and learning process
    * Use of interactive multimedia projects in teaching and learning methods
    *  Problem-solving learning (PSL)
    *  Collaborative and cooperative learning
    *  Project-based learning
    *  Interactive multimedia learning

Mai has written 8 books on multimedia, over 100 publications and was a regular multimedia columnist in Malaysia's Computimes and Computimes Shopper.  She has published extensively in many international referreed journals, including the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET), Educational Technology & Society Journal (ETS), Journal of Computer-Assisted Learning (JCAL), Learning Media and Technology (LMT), International Journal of Instructional Media (IJIM), Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology (TOJET) and many more.  She is also on the Reviewer Board of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET),  Australian Educational Researcher (AER), Educational Technology & Society Journal (ETS), Journal of Computer-Assisted Learning (JCAL), the ASCILITE international conferences and many more international and local conferences. 

She is currently an Excutive Committee Member for the EdMedia conference (AACE) for the 2010-2013 period.

Mai has also served as Technical Consultant for the MGS, eContent and ScienceFund grants of the Malaysian Ministry of Science and Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), and is currently the External Moderator for INTI University College's Multimedia and Internet degree programmes.

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