Dr. Khairul Shafee Kalid

About Myself

I am Dr Khairul Shafee Kalid. I am a senior lecturer from the Department of Computer and Information Sciences under the Faculty of Science and Information Technology, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. My area of expertise is on information systems particularly on adoption, acceptance, knowledge management and enterprise architecture

My Teaching Philosophy

My teaching philosophy is that teaching activities should be learner-centered and guided by the learning outcomes. I believe that Teachers and students have their own role to play in this process. I see my role as a facilitator of learning that is guided by the course outcomes that have been set. It is my responsibility to see that the students have, not only to acquire the knowledge and the skills required, but also the ability to apply them when the situation comes. In order to achieve this, I have to ensure that the students should feel comfortable and relax when they are in class. They need to see learning in class as a social event. When they are relax, they interact. When they interact, they understand better and learning takes place.

The role of an educator does not stop when the students walked out of the classroom at the end of the end of the day. Not even at the end of the semester either. I believe that students have to be constantly reminded about their purpose in life, in UTP and learning what they are learning. Being an educator is not about teaching the course content in class. It needs to go way beyond that. Students have to be instilled with good values such as to always uphold integrity and being honest in whatever that they do in life. They have to always help others than they will be ‘helped’.