A standard equation on teaching workload calculation in the previous academic setting only includes the contact hours with students through lecture, tutorial, laboratory and in-person consultation (i.e. one-to-one final year project consultation). This paper discusses teaching workload factors according to the current higher-education setting. Devising a teaching workload equation that includes all teaching and learning strategies in the 21^st century higher education learning setting is needed. This is indeed a challenging task for the academic administrators to scrutinize every single parameter that accounted for teaching and learning. In this work, we have discussed the parameters which are significant in teaching workload calculation. For instance, the conventional in-person contact with the students, type of delivery, type of assessment, the preparation of materials for flipped classroom as well as MOOC, to name a few. Teaching workload also affects quality teaching and from the academic perception, the higher workload means lower-quality teaching.

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Mobile phones produce radio frequency signal that is transferred as Electromagnetic radiation (EMR). EMR has the ability to penetrate through semi solid substances especially human body's tissues and caused dielectric heating. This effect can be classified as thermal and non thermal radiation. The skin near ear skull region is very thin compare to other part of human body. When using mobile phone for a longer period of time, this area absorbs EMR easily that can affects human immune systems. This effect resulted the increased of temperature near the ear skull region. Experimental study was conducted by using a volunteer to examine the effect of EMR produced by two different mobile phones with serving frequency of 900MHz and 1800MHz. This study was done in a laboratory for average of 45 minutes of talking time. Data is collected every 5 minutes using thermal imaging camera and thermal couples' probes. It is shown that temperature near the ear-skull region increased rapidly at the average of 2-4°C differences compare to before the used of mobile phone. When using adds in tools, the temperature rose more gradually and minimally. It is proven that the EMR would not cause any adverse effect towards human health such as cancer or tumor.

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