Suara Hati Ayahku

Salam n good morning.

I am trying extremely hard to produce a book after the completion of my PhD in mid 2010.

Bear this with me please. After I met Dr R (my immediate mentor), I made some critical examination to the translated version from thesis to a book and now about to make some major turns to my organization of the book. Ha..ha. ha

Important points that she made were:

· Interesting enough for readers out there to read/know
· Got Potential Can sell in big quantity (hopefully)

What are the points?

· Hermann Brain Dominance Model – why is this so important? What make people look so highly about this Hermann idea// HROD Gunung Ledang in 2007 talked something on Hermann Brain Instrument. Why?
· Team building
· Mathematics education in Malaysia
· Polytechnic education in Malaysia focusing on certificate engineering
· Certificate engineering ; diploma engineering and degree engineering
· Polytechnic university
· Premier polytechnic
· Interactive multimedia courseware
· Collaborative learning
· Interactive multimedia courseware within collaborative learning set-up
· The making of the courseware CDiCL
· The instructional design theories
· Constructivism, behaviorism, cognitivist
· Results from an experiment conducted in polytechnic kota bharu, Kelantan
· Why PKB? Interesting points from PKB?
· Discussion
· Tulisan anda hendaklah berbentuk ilmiah, kritikal, analitik, mengupas secara ilmiah sebagai se orang sarjana tersohor pemegang ijazah PhD dan telah berpengalaman membentangkan idea Hermann di persada antarabangsa di Sepanyol (2006), Vietnam (2008), Indonesia (2007) dan RECSAM/SEAMEO Malaysia (2007;2009).
· Anda mampu menulis buku setebal (paling kurang) 50 muka surat kerana tulisan anda sudah pun diterbitkan di dalam i-jet journal (Austria), Elsevier, UPM (RU), UPSI (iMEC 2010).
· Apa lagi yang menakutkan kamu? BUATLAH!!!
· Adakah kamu tidak sehebat Schoenfeld (1998); Moursund (2006); Leorne Burton (2000)? Bukankah mereka dulunya bermula dari sesuatu titik paling bawah dalam dunia penulisan? Inilahh saat-saatnya kamu membuktikan pengalaman mu yang luas dan kepakaran ilmu pendidikan matematik untuk santapan jiwa, minda pembaca-pembacamu di Malaysia, Indonesia dan Brunei.

I was fortunate to get NAZMEEN’s feedback ( my daughter in law ; pursuing PhD in USM, Penang now). She wrote this:

- Interesting points for me - what is CDiCL? How does it differs from the other methods? How did you do your research? / how did you determine its advantages over other methods// ease up on the technical aspects
- The outcomes and why you got that result?
- The limitation of CDiCL? Recommendations on how to improve the software, courseware
LESS INTERESTING points (for a book) - other people’s studies; statistical findings

Take out statistical analysis/ literature review on 7 wide body of research. just get the summary only.

so this is what is printed on my mind at 800 am 28th Dec 2010

Chapter 1

· Introduction to problem in mathematics (certificate engineering polytechnic)
· Impact from mahathir’s PPSMI
· Results from TIMMS 1999, 2003, 2007

Chapter 2

· Theories in education
· Theories constructivsm, behaviourism
· Instructional Design
· Mathematics Education
· Problems in mathematics PPSMI
Chapter 3

· Building of a courseware
· Why this way (incorporating Hermann Brain Dominance Model)
· ADDIE; why ADDIE?

Chapter 4

· Results from a research in Polytechnic Kota Bharu
· Observations among weak learners in mathematics in PKB

Chapter 5

· Discussion and Recommendation
· Contribution of your research in PKB to the body of knowledge in Maths Education

References
Appendix

The END ( 50 pages? ) - you can write more than this Dr Sazalis, can't you? God Willing!