She is a Senior Lecturer in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). She obtained her PhD in Higher Education (Instructional Design – E-learning) from University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2008 and has been working in USM since then. Assoc Prof Dr Azidah’s research interests are in Instructional Design specifically in the e-learning and m-learning environment, Educational Technology, ICT & Multimedia and 21st Century teaching & learning. Her expertise includes Instructional Design in Learning Management System (LMS) and using Web 2.0 to enhance teaching and learning. She is the Coordinator for Program Pensiswazahan Guru (PPG), USM since 2011.

She has been awarded the Most Innovative Content Award (Hybrid Category) in the Annual Teaching & Learning Seminar 2011/2012 in USM, Pulau Pinang. She has also been awarded the Excellent Service Award 2012 and the Teaching and Supervising Award 2016 by Universiti Sains Malaysia. Assoc Prof Dr Azidah is also a USM Master Trainer, where she conducted trainings to USM lecturers in terms of instructional design, e-learning methods and tools, as well as new approaches of teaching and learning in the 21st Century. She also conducted Training of Trainers (ToT) sessions nationally to cater the need for specific courses. She has been awarded as Malaysian Master Trainer in e-learning which has been granted in November 2015 by Malaysian Academy of Leaderships (AKEPT). Assoc. Prof dr. Azidah will be awarded the Anugerah Pengajaran for the 10th Anugerah Akademik Negara (AAN) in the AAN award ceremony 2017.