Abtar has 20 years of teaching experience in various Malaysian high schools, a teacher training college and two universities. Her expertise is in instructional technology having received her MS in Instructional Design from Syracuse University and her PhD in Web-based Learning from the University of Malaya. She has taught courses from the diploma to graduate levels encompassing principles of teaching and learning, subject-based methodologies. Abtar is currently heading the Centre for Instructional Design and Technology, Open University Malaysia where she oversees a group of instructional designers and multimedia developers in supporting the 5 Faculties at Open University to create both print and e-content. Abtar received the Fulbright award in 2000 and has presented widely in international conferences as an invited speaker and is currently on the following advisory committees: Program Committee of ED-MEDIA, Advisory Council for ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN and EISTA Conference Paper Reviewer. Currently, her writings and research interests include how intelligent agents can be incorporated into online learning activities to personalize learning, how e-content (learning objects) can be developed using instructional templates and how online moderation can be effected in the most efficient manner in the virtual classroom.
Abtar Kaur
