Rozhan Idrus

Rozhan M. Idrus is a Professor of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) & Technogogy in the Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, with more than 30 years of international experience as an e-learning technologist and analyst, consultant, presenter and workshop facilitator. He has presented 52 Keynote addresses in 18 different countries and has published more than 190 publications in international citation-indexed journals, books and handbook chapters. Spearheaded the first home-grown electronic portal (2003) and pioneered use of sms in teaching of physics (2008) while in the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He garnered awards in mobile learning in the World Education Summit (2011), e-INDIA Awards (2010) and the Asia Pacific Mobile Learning & Edutainment Advisory Panel (APACMLEAP) Mobile Learning Initiatives Recognition (2009), Gold Medal Award in the Innovation and Invention in Education Competition 2016 in the Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris in Malaysia and Gold Medal Awards in the 3rd World Invention Innovation Contest 2017 (Korean Invention News) and conferred the e-learning Maestro Award in Higher Education (Malaysia) in the 2nd International University Carnival on eLearning 2017. He defined the term ‘technogogy’ and has been passionately promoting it since 2005. He was the founding Chief Editor of the Malaysian Journal of Educational Technology (2001-2016).