Status of OER Development in Malaysia (Advocacy, Policy, Application, Training)

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

21 September 2016 How is Higher Education (HE) trending? Enabling Environment for ODL

Source: http://www.moe.gov.my Shift 3: Create A Nation of Lifelong 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 9: Promote Globalised Online 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 OER 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 Malaysia Examples: Activity Institution Institutional Repositories Development Public universities (17); Private universities (8) (Source: MyUniNet Portal, PERPUN)

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Public universities (13) developed by local universities supported Private universities (3) by the Ministry of Higher Education Taylor’s University; Global University of Islamic Finance (INCEIF) (Source: OpenLearning.com platform) Wawasan Open University (WOU) - Using Moodle Platform

MOOC Training of Trainers (TOT) The Higher Education Leadership Academy (AKEPT) Workshops (Training in developing under MOHE has taken the major role in promoting OpenCourseWare) awareness of the importance of MOOCs OER activities in Malaysia Examples: Activity Institution OpenCourseWare 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 Universiti Sains Malaysia for Development of Academic [https://cdae.usm.my/index.php/en/2015-06-05-08-53-00/open- Excellence (CDAE) educational-resources]

IMU Webinar Learning Series International Medical University (IMU) [http://imuelearning.blogspot.my/p/imu-learning-webinar-series- 2012.html] URL: https://www.openlearning.com/malaysiamoocs MOHE – OpenLearning Collaboration OER and MOOC

Global E-Learning Mainstream Web 2.0 & 3.0 tools and 21st Century Education 3.0 Education

• Online chats • Student centered • Social networking • Inquiry based and media sharing • Interactive learning • OER & FOSS** modules, activities • MOOC • Customizable lessons WOU’s e-Learning Road Map ** OER = Open Educational Resources FOSS = Free and Open Source Software MOOC = Massive Open Online Courses WOU’s OER Roadmap • OER policy of the university • OER application by Schools • OER use capacity building • OER repository in the Digital Library Early OER Initiatives at WOU

• 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, • OER-Asia Website hosted by WOU (2011) More OER Initiatives

• 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) Enabling Policies (Feb 2012) OER Integrated Courses

• 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)

& more in the pipeline WOU Press (ePub) OER: Vignettes of Selected Asian Experience

Edited by G. Dhanarajan (2016)

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

ISBN 978-983-3910-02-1 (ePub) A database created by WOU using WEKO, an open source repository software developed by the National Institute of Informatics, Japan OER Workshops by WOU

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)

Research funded by IDRC-ROER4D Project: An action research study of teacher educators 0

5 Modules 4 Modules Workshop on how to produce a Screencast

To remain relevant in this 21st century, e-Teachers need training too! 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)

Critical Success Factors • 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