Developing Literacy through Mobile Phones: Malaysia’s

Perspective

FADZLIATON ZAINUDINUNESCO Asia & the Pacific Regional

Consultation Workshop27-28 November 2012

Bangkok, Thailand

Malaysia Basic Indicators

Source: Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission

Literacy at A Glance

Primary

Secondary

0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000

7723

2296

No. of Schools

Literacy at A Glance

Type of Schools No. of StudentsPre-school 186, 298 Primary 2.8 millionSecondary 2.3 million

No. of Students

No. of TeachersType of Schools Male Female

Primary 72,266 164,047Secondary 55,155 121,252Total 127,421 285,299

Literacy at A Glance

Primary

Lower Secondary

Upper Secondary

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

94

87

78

School Enrolment

Percentage Source: MOE

Literacy at A Glance

Male

Female

97.4 97.6 97.8 98 98.2 98.4 98.6 98.8 99

98

99

Youth Literacy (15 – 24 years old)

Source: UNICEFPercentage* LINUS Programme (Literasi dan Numerasi)

To build a knowledge-based economy, school education has to be transformed with ICT as an enabler to access a much wider source of information, to increase innovation and creativity and encourage critical thinking for problem solving

Mapping of ICT with National Goals

Malaysia aims to become a developed nation by 2020 supported by 4 pillars to drive national transformation

Malaysia Education Blueprint

(2013 – 2025)

1Malaysia Concept

Government Transformation Programme

Economic Transformation Programme

10th Malaysia Plan

5 System Aspirations for the Malaysian Education System

Malaysia Education Blueprint

(2013 – 2025)

6 Key Attributes Needed by Students to be Globally Competitive

Malaysia Education Blueprint

(2013 – 2025)

11 Shifts to Transform the Education System

Shift 7: Leverage ICT to Scale up Quality Learning Across Malaysia

ICT in Education

Hardware

• Maintenance Service

Software

• Application• Tools

Network

• Data Centre• LAN / WAN

Pedagogy

• Curriculum• Assessment

Competency Development

• Education Management

• Training of MOE Officers

• Training of Teachers

ICT in Education

Should be professionally managed by external experts in ICT domain with MOE and COP’s input

Should be driven by MOE but the integration of ICT in Education competency development can be delivered by external experts for value-add

Delivery for ICT in Education

Budget• Budgetary

Consideration• Total Cost of

Qwnership• Public-Private

Partnership

Infrastructure• ICT Infrastructure• Enabling

Infrastructure• Maintenance &

Support

Human Capital• Roles &

Responsibility• Competency &

Professional Development

Digital Resources• Teaching &

Learning Strategy• Teaching &

Learning Materials

Objectives of the Policy on ‘ICT in Education’

To align all the current and future ICT initiatives under a common goal for

integrating ‘ICT in Education’

To standardise and enhance the implementation of ICT initiatives in

education by encompassing all important aspects of

implementation and post-implementation into a regulatory

framework

To generate greater commitment and acceptance by all

stakeholders

Process Flow of ICT in Education

Government’s National Goal

Need Analysis

Curriculum Design & Development

Technology for ICT in Education

Competency Development

Implementation of ICT Initiatives

Review & Monitoring

Smart Schools Roadmap

Pilot Phase• (1999-

2002)

Post Pilot• (2003-2005)

Making All Schools Smart• (2005-2010)

Consolidation & Stabilisation• (2011-2020)

Status of Smart Schools

5-star 4-star 3-star 2-star 1-star

6.49

47.11

41.16

4.13

1.11

Source: 2011 SSQS

Human Capital

Usage

Infrastructure

Applications

Domains

Current ICT Initiatives

1BestariNet

4 G mobile Internet

Virtual Learning

Environment (VLE)

Penetration Rates at a Glance

Source: Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission

No. of Broadband & Penetration Rate

Source: Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission

Internet Use

Source: Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission

Internet Use

Source: Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission

Cellular Telephone Use

Source: Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission

Mobile Phones in Schools

Source: The Star

• Students can take handphones, IT gadgets to school from 2013

16 July 2012

• PTA: No mobile phones to school, please!

17 July 2012 • School phone

ban retained

4 Oct 2012

Issues & Challenges

Physical Social Content

LanguageEducation system /

CurriculumLiteracy

Organisational / Community

Structure

Moving Ahead

Ubiquitous Learning

Contents for VLE

M-learning Simulation

Lab

Mobile EduWebTV

Teacher Training on

VLE