DEVELOPING OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER) FOR MALAYSIAN

CLASSROOMS: THE HOTS EXPERIENCE

A REGIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON OER: AN ASIAN PERSPECTIVE AND POLICIES AND PRACTICES

YOON SOOK JHEE**RAJENDRAN NAGAPPAN, ROSMA BINTI OSMAN, SEVA BALA SUNDARAM

*UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH**SULTAN IDRIS EDUCATION UNIVERSITY

WAWASAN OPEN UNIVERSITY SEPTEMBER 2012

Overview• The needs of OER materials to teach

HOTS• Creating the materials• Creating the website• Response from teachers and

students• Sustainability

Emphasis on HOTS

The need for HOTS materials• Teachers are reluctant to integrate

various thinking strategies and skills in their classrooms (Rajendran, 1998).

• Lack of materials to teach HOTS (Rahil Mahyuddin et al., 2004)

• Materials available are not based on the Malaysian curriculum and context.

• Materials need to be modified extensively• Critical subjects: Bahasa Malaysia,

History, Geography, English

Creating the resources• Subjects chosen: Bahasa Malaysia, English and

History• Resources: Lesson plans, worksheets, teaching

materials• Verification of the resources (6 teachers and

90 students from a suburban secondary school in Perak, Malaysia)

• Feedback from teachers and students : lesson preparation, lesson implementation, teaching and learning activities, HOTS integration

• Modifications on the resources

Creating the website• Host: Sultan Idris Education University• Url: http://oerthinking.upsi.edu.my/• Content management system: Joomla!

Version 1.7• Research team members attended OER

workshops (f2f and online) and Joomla! workshops.

• Challenges: i) access from 8am to 5pm onlyii) access within campus vicinity only

Response from teachers and students

• Positive attitudes from the teachers and students

• Teachers have limited knowledge to revise the resources-follow the resources strictly

• HOTS elements: aligned with the syllabus, more elements can be included

Sustainability

• Teachers from the schools are invited to use, revise and submit the resources.

• Resources will be reviewed before made available for public viewing

• OER is promoted in SIEU through sharing and contribution of resources from trainee teachers.

Conclusion• Beneficial to schools with limited

access to quality teaching and learning materials related to HOTS.

• Second phase: develop resources on other core subjects taught in Malaysian classrooms.