{"id":6496,"date":"2010-10-20T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=6496"},"modified":"2015-05-09T07:06:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T07:06:32","slug":"prof-dr-amin-received-isesco-technology-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/october-2010\/prof-dr-amin-received-isesco-technology-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dr Amin received ISESCO Technology Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2010%2Foctober-2010%2Fprof-dr-amin-received-isesco-technology-award%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=6496&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/isesco1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>WEDNESDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2010 15:25<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Abdul Ghani Nasir<br \/>\nPix by Saliman Leman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nKUALA LUMPUR, \u00a020 Okt. 2010\u00a0 &#8211; The Deputy Director (e-Learning) Centre for Academic Advancement of UKM, Prof.Dr Mohamed Amin Embi\u00a0yesterday received the \u201cISESCO Prize in Science &amp; Technology 2010\u201d in recognition of his outsanding contributions in the field of Technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe received a certificate, a gold medal and a cash award of US$5,000. He was among six scientists from Muslims countries given the award by the Rabat, Morocco based ISESCO, a body set up by the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe other five winners were Dr Hosein Baharvand from Iran (Biology): Prof. Dr Mirsaidon Ulmas of Tajikistan (Chemistry), Prof. Dr Muhammad Qasim Jan from \u00a0Pakistan (Geology), Dr Odibat Zaid from Jordan (Mathematics) and Dr Shabat Mohammed from Palestine for Physics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nDeputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin handed over the awards at a ceremony held in conjunction with the opening of the Fifth Islamic Conference of Ministers of Higher Education and Scientific Research.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nPresent were the Minister for Higher Education, Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin and the Assistant Secretary General of OIC, Abdul Moiz Bokhari and the Director General of ISESCO, Dr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nProf \u00a0Mohamed Amin\u2019s contribution in the advancement of e-learning in Malaysia is evident in his R&amp;Ds and innovations undertaken in the past few years. He is the founder and advocate of online teacher development centre including Virtual Teacher Education Centre (VirTEC), ELT-Online Teacher Resource Center (ELT-TreC), Gerbang Maya Pendidikan Islam (GeMa Islam) an Islamic Education Portal and e-Xra.com.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/isesco2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/isesco3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>VirTEC is an Asean one-stop online teacher education centre founded and developed by Prof Amin under the Unesco Participation Programme. It was awarded a Gold Medal at UKM Research \/Innovation Exhibition and a Silver Medal by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment Malaysia at the Invention Competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe and his wife Rohayati Haroun developed e-Xra C.E.P.A.T as Malaysia\u2019s first computer-based learning-to-read programme to assist slow learners, dyslexic and autistic children learn to read Malay. The programme has successfully helped more than 25,000 children with reading difficulties to read Malay within 3 to 6 months not only in Malaysia but also in Singapore, Brunei and Indonesia. The innovation was awarded a Gold Medal by the Ministry of Science, Technology &amp; Environment at Malaysia Technology Expo 2006.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nWhen met, Prof Amin who was delighted to be so honoured, hoped what he had developed could be shared for the betterment of the ummah as a whole.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe regarded the award as a recognition for UKM which continues to shine in the international academic arena.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/isesco4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/isesco5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEDNESDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2010 15:25 By Abdul Ghani Nasir Pix by Saliman Leman KUALA LUMPUR, \u00a020 Okt. 2010\u00a0 &#8211; The<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/october-2010\/prof-dr-amin-received-isesco-technology-award\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6497,"parent":1410,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6496","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6499,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6496\/revisions\/6499"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}