OER Symposium 2014

CREATING OER FOR TEACHER

EDUCATION

YOON SOOK JHEE, TAN CHOON KEONG &

LEE KEAN WAH

UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH

OER and MOOC in Public Universities

● 4 universities (UKM, UiTM, UNIMAS, UM) offering 4

MOOC courses: Islamic and Asian Civilization Studies

(TITAS), English for International Students, IT Literacy and

Entrepreneurship Skills

● 13 universities offer at least 20 courses as OER

● UMS is one of the 13

OER UMS

Content for Teacher Education

● Content for school teachers

● Lecturers of Faculty of Education and Psychology

● 8 courses

● Undergraduate students

–TESL first year students

–2 mini projects: language games & collaborative story writing

OER Creation Process

Enculturation

● Creating awareness on the needs of OER

● Unlearn and relearn on content creation

● Long term benefits of OER

● Copyright

● E-learning training

Content design

● Desktop authoring tools

● Web-based authoring tools

● Public domain images, open textbook etc

● Collaborative tools

● 5-minute lectures

Video recording

Video

Video

Evaluation

● Peer evaluation

● Student evaluation

● Public evaluation (school teachers)

Challenges ● Content sharing willingness

● Redesign content (F2F to Non F2F)

● Dependence on publishers' content

● Understanding of Creative Commons

● Practicality of the content

● User-friendliness of the content

Lesson Learned

● Understanding of OER and Creative Commons is vital.

● Peer evaluation of the content

● Language clarity, exploitability and practicality of the

content.

Conclusion

● Teacher as content creator

● Teacher as OER contributor.