Biography
Ts. Dr. Heidi Tan is a senior lecturer in the Advertising Design programme at the Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University, Malaysia. She is also the Programme Coordinator of the Masters of Multimedia (Digital Learning) programme at the faculty and is part of the faculty's Quality Improvement Committee. Her PhD is in the area of problem-solving learning environments and authentic learning strategies. She is currently a Project Leader of an external grant project funded by the Ministry of Higher Education (FRGS) and has previously lead two other external grants funded by TM R&D. Her research interests include problem-solving learning, student-centred learning, interactive multimedia applications, authentic learning, multimedia in education and web-based learning and instruction. She has previously held the positions of Deputy Director of ADEPT (Office of Academic Development for Excellence in Programmes and Teaching), Chairperson of the Centre for Adaptive Multimedia, Education and Learning Content Technologies (CAMELOT) research centre, senior researcher and creative coordinator of The MILE Research Lab, head of the faculty's MOOC team, member of the faculty's web & editorial committee, and member of the university's BLEND initiative.