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THE EXPERIENCE OF OPEN UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA

OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING – OPPORTUNITIES FOR MOBILE LEARNING. THE EXPERIENCE OF OPEN UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA. Professor Emeritus Tan Sri Anuwar Ali President/Vice-Chancellor Open University Malaysia. Why Open and Distance Learning?. Current need for mass education and life-long learning

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THE EXPERIENCE OF OPEN UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA

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  1. OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING – OPPORTUNITIES FOR MOBILE LEARNING THE EXPERIENCE OF OPEN UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA Professor Emeritus Tan Sri Anuwar Ali President/Vice-Chancellor Open University Malaysia

  2. Why Open and Distance Learning? • Current need for mass education and life-long learning • Knowledge-economy and globalised economy require fast track training • Most organizations cannot afford downtime to train workers • Conventional universities cannot grow fast enough to cope with demand

  3. The OUM Context Vision: To be “University for All” 95% of learners are working adults. They face many challenges, including the following: 1. Cannot allocate fixed time to study because of many commitments 2. Many in areas with poor access to Internet 3. Must find time to study

  4. OUM Learners Span All Ages AGE GROUP • Broad spread in age distribution

  5. OUM Learners are Everywhere Diverse Geographical Distribution: Access to services variable

  6. OUM Learners are From All Communities

  7. ODL Students – Managing Time Office work? Quality time with family and chores Sleep The long commute Wake up, get ready The long commute Long day at work

  8. Finding Time to Study Working adults do not have long stretches of time for studyStudy time must be “created” while performing other activities

  9. ….. Usually very late at night

  10. Or While Commuting

  11. Or While Working

  12. Learning Paradigm for ODL • Time to learn for most ODL Learners – while doing other activities. Thus, learning contents must be: • Mobile • Easily accessible • Suitably chunked into small bites • Non distracting

  13. Mobile Learning Mobile learning: in any location, at any time, including traditional learning environments such as classrooms as well as in workplaces, at home, in parks and while commuting. Well suited to ODL Learners

  14. Devices – are readily available • Mobile technologies include: • mobile phones, • smartphones, PDAs, • MP3/ MP4 players (e.g. iPODs), • handheld gaming devices (e.g. Sony PSP, Nintendo DS), • ultramobile PCs, mini notebooks or netbooks • handheld GPS • etc, etc • Many learners have at least one of these

  15. Contents • There are countless contents for conventional online learning but appropriate content for mobile learning is still lacking. • The following are two large resources for mobile content: • ITunes University: Audio and Video download from many universities • BLOOM: Bite-sized Learning Opportunities on Mobile

  16. Internet Radio – Audio and Video Files MP3 MP4 Mobile TV

  17. The Way Forward • New Initiatives: • Authoring tools to facilitate production of contents • Contents are appropriate for the various mobile devices • Support for learners while on mobile learning • Conduct research on effectiveness of delivery and contents • Formulate strategy for growth of mobile learning to support ODL

  18. Be prepared for the new mobile learners

  19. Or just opt for the still popular mobile learning aid

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