21 September 2016

Prof. Dato’ Dr. Ho Sinn-Chye Vice-Chancellor & CEO

Status of Status of OEROER Development in MalaysiaDevelopment in Malaysia

(Advocacy, Policy, Application, Training)(Advocacy, Policy, Application, Training)

How is Higher Education (HE) trending?How is Higher Education (HE) trending?

Source: http://www.moe.gov.my

Enabling Environment for ODLEnabling Environment for ODL

Shift 3Shift 3: : Create A Nation of Create A Nation of Lifelong LearnersLifelong Learners

• Creating a framework for recognizing prior learning;

• Launching stakeholder engagement programmes that incentivize participation and improving the existing marketing infrastructure;

• Continuing to provide financial support to disadvantaged groups and tax reduction incentive schemes to companies, and to work with financial institutions to create financial assistance for all groups.

Source: Ministry of Education (2015). Malaysian Education Blueprint 2015-2025 (Higher Education), 240 pages.

Shift 9Shift 9: : Promote Globalised Promote Globalised Online LearningOnline Learning

• Launching MOOCs in subjects of distinctiveness for Malaysia such as Islamic Banking and Finance;

• Making online learning an integral component of higher education and lifelong learning; and

• Establishing the required cyber infrastructure and strengthening the capabilities of the academic community to deliver online learning.

Source: Ministry of Education (2015). Malaysian Education Blueprint 2015-2025 (Higher Education), 240 pages.

Definition of Definition of OEROER by Butcher (2015) by Butcher (2015)

“Any educational resources* that are openly available for use by educators and students, without the need to pay royalties or license fees”.

* including curriculum maps, course materials, textbooks, streaming videos, multimedia applications, podcasts, and any other materials that have been designed for use in teaching and learning.

Reference: Butcher, N. (2015). A basic guide to Open Educational Resources (OER). Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver and UNESCO.

OER activities in MalaysiaOER activities in Malaysia

Activity InstitutionInstitutional Repositories Development

Public universities (17); Private universities (8)(Source: MyUniNet Portal, PERPUN)

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) developed by local universities supported by the Ministry of Higher Education

Public universities (13)Private universities (3) Taylor’s University; Global University of Islamic Finance (INCEIF)(Source: OpenLearning.com)Wawasan Open University (WOU) – Using Moodle platform

MOOC Training of Trainers (TOT) Workshops (Training in developing OpenCourseWare)

The Higher Education Leadership Academy (AKEPT) under MOHE has taken the major role in promoting awareness of the importance of MOOCs

Examples:

Activity InstitutionOpenCourseWare Development

Ten Institutional Members involved:Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Sultan Idris Education University, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Mara, University Malaya and Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka(Source : Open Education Consortium - Malaysia)

Training in OER by the Center for Development of Academic Excellence (CDAE)

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)[https://cdae.usm.my/index.php/en/2015-06-05-08-53-00/open-educational-resources]

IMU Webinar Learning Series

International Medical University (IMU)[http://imuelearning.blogspot.my/p/imu-learning-webinar-series-2012.html]

OER activities in MalaysiaOER activities in MalaysiaExamples:

URL: https://www.openlearning.com/malaysiamoocs

MOHE – OpenLearning CollaborationMOHE – OpenLearning Collaboration

Global E-Learning Mainstream

WOU’s e-Learning Road Map

21st Century Education

Web 2.0 & 3.0 tools and Education 3.0

• Student centered• Inquiry based• Interactive learning

modules, activities• Customizable lessons

• Online chats• Social

networking and media sharing

• OER & FOSS**• MOOC

** OER = Open Educational Resources FOSS = Free and Open Source Software

MOOC = Massive Open Online Courses

e-Books

Teaching

and

Learning

OERand

MOOC

• OER policy of the university• OER application by Schools• OER use capacity building• OER repository in the Digital Library

WOU’s WOU’s OEROER Roadmap Roadmap

• WOU-OER Integration Steering Committee (2011) directed by University Council

• OER Training Workshop (2-4 May, 2011)

• UNESCO-COL-AAOU OER Workshop (1 Oct. 2011) held in WOU, Penang

• OER-Asia Website hosted by WOU (2011)

Early Early OEROER Initiatives at WOU Initiatives at WOU

• Town hall meeting and training session on OER conducted for WOU staff (March 2012).

• 1st Regional Symposium on OER: An Asian Perspective on Policies and Practices (24-27 Sept 2012)

• 2nd Regional Symposium on OER: Beyond Advocacy, Research and Policy (19-21 June 2014)

More More OEROER Initiatives Initiatives

Enabling Enabling PoliciesPolicies (Feb 2012)(Feb 2012)

• TCC 242/05: Web Database Application © 2011

• EED502/05: ICT in Education © 2012

• TCC121/05: Programming Fundamentals with Java © 2012 (2nd revision)

• BBM102/05: Introduction to Microeconomics © 2013

• BBM 208/05: Business Ethics © 2015 (2nd edition)

OEROER Integrated Courses Integrated Courses

& more in the pipeline

This publication is available in Open Access under the Attribution - Share Alike 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA 4.0) license.

WOU PressWOU Press

ISBN 978-983-3910-02-1 (ePub)

OEROER:Vignettes of Vignettes of Selected Asian Selected Asian ExperienceExperienceEdited by G. Dhanarajan (2016)

(ePub)

A database created by WOU using WEKO, an open source repository software developed by the National Institute of Informatics, Japan

A series of workshops on processes of OER integration for course development

• CEE and Mysore Univ. (India) (8-12 Nov 2014)

• WOU (Dec 2015, Jan 2016)

• USM (Penang, Malaysia) (Dec 2015, Jan 2016)

• OUSL (Sri Lanka) (7-8 Jan 2016)

• UiTM (Malacca, Malaysia) (24 Mar 2016)

OEROER Workshops by WOU Workshops by WOU

Research funded by IDRC-ROER4D Project: An action research study of teacher educators

0Feb – May 2015

5 Modules

4 Modules

To remain relevant in this 21st century, e-Teacherse-Teachers

need training too!

Workshop on how to produce a ScreencastScreencast

https://oerasia.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=48

An Asian Forum created by WOU to share information, views and opinion, research studies

and knowledge resources in addition to guidelines and toolkits on good practices on and about Open

Education Resources in the Asian Region.

(Launched in 2011)

• Institutional commitment

• Senior management support

• Enabling policies and environment

• Mainstreaming of faculty capacity building

• Developing quality assured and pedagogically sound course contents

• Providing the right enabling environment for online learning

CriticalCritical Success Factors Success Factors