Innovative E-Therapy Service in Higher Education: Mobile Application Design

Authors

  • Miftachul Huda Universiti Teknologi Malaysia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6712-0056
  • Kamarul Azmi Jasmi Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor, Malaysia
  • Mohd Ismail Mustari Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor, Malaysia
  • Bushrah Basiron Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor, Malaysia
  • Ahmad Kilani Mohamed Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor, Malaysia
  • Wan Hassan Wan Embong Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor, Malaysia
  • Jimaain Safar Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v11i4.6734

Keywords:

Innovative, e-therapy service, design of mobile application, higher education

Abstract


Cyber counselling or e-therapy has widely been adopted as the new approach to give an insightful guidance into the clients. In higher education (HE) level, this initiative seems to have rarely been involved due to some technical requirements and preparations. This paper aims to present the approach of e-therapy using mobile application design. The finding illustrates that promoting this model application can theoretically assist the transmission process of counselling in the academic circumstance where both students and advisors may have a continuous engagement with more convenient quality in solving the issues surrounding the academic purposes. The attainment of this paper is expected to contribute in enabling the process of academic counselling in the context of higher education (HE). Strengthening practical and relational value maintaining connection to facilitate the sensitive issues disclosure is expected to help students solve their academic issues, such as reflecting the learning achievement.

Author Biographies

Miftachul Huda, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Department of Islamic Civilisation, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Join Appointee at Centre for Lifelong Learning, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

Kamarul Azmi Jasmi, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor, Malaysia

Faculty of Islamic Civilisation

Mohd Ismail Mustari, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor, Malaysia

Faculty of Islamic Civilisation

Bushrah Basiron, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor, Malaysia

Faculty of Islamic Civilisation

Ahmad Kilani Mohamed, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor, Malaysia

Faculty of Islamic Civilisation

Wan Hassan Wan Embong, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor, Malaysia

Faculty of Islamic Civilisation

Jimaain Safar, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor, Malaysia

Faculty of Islamic Civilisation

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Published

2017-05-22

How to Cite

Huda, M., Jasmi, K. A., Mustari, M. I., Basiron, B., Mohamed, A. K., Wan Embong, W. H., & Safar, J. (2017). Innovative E-Therapy Service in Higher Education: Mobile Application Design. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 11(4), pp. 83–94. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v11i4.6734

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