Hafiz Hanif, PhD.

Faculty of Human Development, Sultan Idris Education University

Senior lecturer and educational technologist. Works on artificial intelligence in education, learning analytics and immersive learning, and on closing the distance between pedagogy and the tools that claim to serve it.

On this site

14Essays2026Since

Google Scholar

272Citationsas of 2026-09-076h-indexas of 2026-08-136i10-indexas of 2026-08-13

Research interests

AI in educationLearning analyticsImmersive learningSelf-regulated learningEarly education

Education

2012–2016: PhD, Education — University of Warwick. Online learning and open online communities.
2010–2012: MSc, Instructional Technology — University of Malaya. Learning in communities of practice.
2002–2008: BEd (TESL) with Honours — Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, minor in literature.

Appointments

2016–: Senior Lecturer — Faculty of Human Development, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris.
2023–: Director of Strategy — MAPIM Malaysia.
2021–: Chief Technology Officer — SiagaX Industries.
2020–: Honorary Secretary General — Malaysian Educational Technology Association (META).
2019–2022: Director — Neoteric Education Initiative Centre (NiCE), UPSI.
2014–2015: Academic Technology Project Developer — University of Warwick.

Awards

2020: Silver Medal, Seoul International Invention Fair — Kelasruum.io learning analytics platform.
2019: Anugerah Perkhidmatan Cemerlang — UPSI excellence in service award.

Service

2020–: External PhD examiner.
2019–: Programme accreditation committee member, UPSI.
2018–: Journal reviewer.

Essays

14 published

Adab Before Apps: Character Education in the Machine Age2026 A National AI-in-Education Policy: What Malaysia Should Write Before Vendors Write It for Us2026 The Field Trip That Needs No Bus: VR in the Malaysian Classroom2026 The Token Tax: Why AI Speaks English Fluently and Bahasa Expensively2026 Your Smartest Student Is Not Human Anymore2026 The Prompt Is the New Lesson Plan2026 "It Does Not Look Things Up": The One Idea That Demystifies AI2026 The AI That Does Things For Us: A Guide to the Agentic Age, and What to Watch2026 Iqra' in the Age of AI: What Islam Actually Says About Learning with Technology2026 Before the Chatbot, There Was a Box: The Forgotten Origins of Educational Technology2026 In the Age of AI, Pedagogy Is Still the King2026 Vibe-Lesson-Planning: When AI Becomes Your Co-Teacher Before Class Even Starts2026 Prompting Alone: What We Lose When We Stop Asking Each Other for Help2026 Can Technology Help Alleviate Teachers' Burden?2026

About this site

Hack(edu).tech Chronicle is a working notebook, published as it goes. It carries essays on education and technology at the length an argument actually needs — longer than a post, shorter than a paper — with the reading and the evidence left in. Everything here is dated, kept, and written to be quoted.

It exists because of a gap in timing. Decisions about technology in education are made early and quickly: in a procurement meeting, a policy draft, a demonstration given by someone with something to sell. The careful version of the argument usually arrives a year later, behind a paywall, in a form nobody who sat in that meeting will ever read. This is an attempt to put the considered version somewhere it can be found while the decision is still open.

That only works if the writing is reachable and reusable, so there is no paywall and no login, the site is run independently, and every piece can be cited like any other source. A teacher, an administrator and a doctoral student should be able to reach the same argument on the same afternoon — and have something solid enough to disagree with.

Text is CC BY 4.0 unless a paper states otherwise. Code samples are MIT.