1st Edition

Digital Education Security, Readiness, and Technology Enhancement

Edited By Heru Susanto, Fang-Yie Leu, Saad Haj Bakry, A. K. Haghi Copyright 2025
356 Pages 64 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

356 Pages 64 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the education world has had to adjust to remote learning. This new book provides important research on digital pedagogies and assessment to demonstrate how technology can be effectively employed for an effective global digital learning environment. This new title brings together professional scientists and senior researchers to discuss the challenges... Read more

PART I: SECURITY ISSUES

1. Adopting Security of the Standardized Digital Learning Platform, HYPHENUS: A Blockchain-Based Framework

Heru Susanto, Nur Izzati Junaidi and Aesep Isani

2. Managing Risk and Blockchain-Based Security of Higher Education Business Processes

Filzah Matayir, Heru Susanto, and Ulaganathan Subramanian

3. Big Data Security: Emerging Technology and Digital Learning Implementation

Leu Fang Yie, Heru Susanto, Fahmi Ibrahim, Budhi Riyanto, Iwan Setiawan, Uus Khusni, and Rachmat Hidayat

PART II: TECHNOLOGY ENHANCEMENT

4. Blended Learning, Big Data, Social Networking, and Cloud Computing: A Shifting Paradigm

Desi Setiana and Norainna Besar

5. A Study on the Potential Effects of Enabling 5G Network in Educational Technology for Higher Education

Heru Susanto and Kahirunnisa Khaledah Safri

6. Exploring Big Data of Generation Y and Z for Learning Processes

Fadzliwati Mohiddin, Desi Setiana, Rozaidin Serudin, and Norazillah Abdullah

PART III: READINESS AND IMPACT

7. Managing Blended Learning: How to Integrate Online and Traditional Learning in Time and Post-Pandemic

Heru Susanto, Amirah Abdullah, and Desi Setiana

8. The Relationship of University Students’ Readiness in a Digital Learning Ecosystem and Their Emotional Intelligence Levels

Heru Susanto and Muhamad Najib Ali

Biography

Heru Susanto, PhD, is a researcher at the Center for Innovative Engineering/School of Business at the University of Technology Brunei. He is also a senior researcher of the Data Security Group at the National Research and Innovation Agency. He is also an honorary professor at the Department of Information Management, College of Management, Tunghai University, Taiwan. Dr. Susanto has experience as an IT professional and as web division head at IT Strategic Management at Indomobil Group Corporation, and was the Prince Muqrin Chair for Information Security Technologies at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has published more than 140 publications, including books, book chapters and journal papers.

Fang-Yie Leu, PhD, is a researcher and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Tunghai University and Adjunct Professor of Ming Chung University, Taiwan. He is on the editorial boards of several journals. Professor Leu organizes international workshops on mobile commerce, cloud computing, and network and communication security (MCNCS); cloud, wireless and e-commerce security (CWECS), including the International Symposium on Mobile Internet Security (MobiSec 2022). He now serves as a technical program committee member of many international conferences. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Saad Haj Bakry, PhD, has been with King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, since 1980. His work covers a wide scope of issues in the fields of information networks and the development of the knowledge society. He led various research projects and has been on the editorial boards of various research journals. He also worked as a consultant to various Saudi organizations, including the Saudi Communications and Information Technology Commission and King Abdulaziz and his Companions Establishment for Giftedness and Creativity, Mawhiba. He has written 15 books in Arabic and various book chapters in English, in addition to many papers. He has a regular column on knowledge society development issues in the Saudi newspaper Al-Eqtisadia.

A. K. Haghi, PhD, is a retired professor and has written and edited more than 1000 research publications, including books, book chaptesr, and papers in refereed journals. He is currently a research associate at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Professor Haghi has received several grants, consulted for several major corporations, and is a frequent speaker to national and international audiences. He is Founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering and Polymers Research Journal.