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Climate change is getting more attention in recent years as it is bringing more devastating natural disasters such as heat waves, drought and floods around the world. Human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, which produce heat-trapping gases, are the main driver of climate change. The enormous amount of greenhouse gases that are released into the atmosphere accelerates the pace of global warming. On the other hand, renewable energy is usually clean and sustainable. Thus, turning down the role of fossil fuel in the energy sector should be a priority and facilitating the use of renewable energy is the best solution to mitigate climate change. To have a clear picture on the current situation, the paper will include a literature review about climate change, greenhouse gases and renewable energy. The methodology, analysis methods and results will be included in the paper. Data collection, pre-processing, data analysis and data visualisation dashboard will be involved during the process. A data analysis dashboard will be created to incorporate the background of the story and the results of the data analysis. The users will be exploring the trends of renewable energy and greenhouse gas emissions with data analysis tools to gain useful insights from the data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The binary numeral system is a fundamental and necessary knowledge for people who work within the computer related professional fields such as IT and Engineering. Almost every technological device that we use in our daily life today is operating on the binary numeral system because of its straightforward implementation in the digital electronic circuitry using logic gates. However, many beginners are facing difficulties in learning the binary numeral system, such as misunderstanding the concept, having insufficient time to practice their understanding or having difficulty in grasping the arithmetic procedures. With the fast development of digital devices, people nowadays are learning through interactive and personalized game-plays. Compared to traditional learning, game-based learning (GBL) creates a more attractive channel for knowledge transfer, ensuring more effective learning outcome. This study aims to design a GBL mobile-app for binary numeral system for beginners. The proposed mobile-app adopts James Paul Gee's 16 principles of GBL design methodology and follows the optimal GBL design factors provided by Olsson and Mozelius (2017). Four difficulty levels (beginner, intermediate, expert, and hidden) are available, with the random question generator matching the specific difficulty level. The difficulty level will increase gradually for three basic game modes (decimal, octal, and hexadecimal). The questions can be formulated into twoway conversions, with arithmetic operations covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Instead of asking users to input the binary number, the inversed questions will ask users to input the decimal number for the given binary number. There were a total of 37 responses collected from the beta testing. The survey questions were divided into three sections, namely the questions on the principles for GBL (12 questions), the questions on user experience (6 questions), and the questions on system integrity (5 questions). Majority of the participants gave positive feedback on the application of the principles for GBL design into the game development and on system integrity. They were satisfied with the user experience. 30 participants felt that the GBL approach is most suitable for learning Mathematics. In addition, the experiment also found that 46% of the participants preferred a better visual experience among other modalities from the VARK model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this digital age where state-of-the-art technologies are evolving swiftly, innovative learning pedagogies have to be accelerated to empower more effective knowledge transfer and engage in lifelong learning. The conventional e-learning approaches have become insufficient to handle the requirements of upgraded learning processes especially in the higher education. The emergence of Cloud computing delivers a significant breakthrough and has gained considerable acceptance in e-learning field. However, despite the readiness of Cloud infrastructures for collaboration and wide accessibility such as Web 2.0 tools, the progress of redefining learning objects to suit e-learning in Cloud environment is not so encouraging. So far, there has been rather little activity being carried out to ensure that e-learning applications are being designed in such a way that promote flexibility use of the learning content. With the availability of Internet and Cloud computing, an e-learning framework utilizing Cloud technology is envisioned. This paper describes a study on the effects of content design and usability on the acceptance of proposed Cloud-based e-learning framework. The study was conducted on a group of 350 IT undergraduates in one of the private universities in Malaysia to evaluate the acceptance of the proposed frameworks. The students were given one trimester to experience the usability of the learning modules developed based on the proposed Cloud-based e-learning framework. As an instrument to analyse the effects of content design and usability on the framework acceptance, a questionnaire consisting twenty four questions was devised and used. There are two independent variables, namely Content Design (CD) and Usability (U), and one dependent variable, namely Acceptance (A), in the research instrument. The results were analysed and reported by running the data in a few statistical tests using SMARTPLS 3.0. The results from this study observed that Cloud-based e-learning modules developed based on the proposed Cloud learning framework is positively accepted by IT undergraduates in the private university. This implies that the proposed Cloud-based e-learning framework can be engaged in the development of a new e-learning infrastructure or application in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]