Moving Forward with E-learning: The Experience of Open University Malaysia

Higher education institutions are embracing e-learning to enhance their learning environment and to provide a range of benefits associated with e-learning. In institutions that offer open distance learning, e-learning has also become a necessity to enable the institutions to serve a greater numbe...

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Main Author: Anuwar Ali
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/161/
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description Higher education institutions are embracing e-learning to enhance their learning environment and to provide a range of benefits associated with e-learning. In institutions that offer open distance learning, e-learning has also become a necessity to enable the institutions to serve a greater number of students and to reach out to those who are spread out geographically over a wide area. In addition, e-learning not only supports learners from the pedagogical point of view but also from the administrative angle. At the Open University Malaysia, e-learning has played a key role since it opened its doors to its first batch of 753 learners in August 2001. As part of the university’s blended learning pedagogies, e-learning has been able to support an enrolment of over 65,000 learners from within and outside the country. OUM, hence, finds it imperative that the quality of the e-learning environment is ensured at all times. How OUM establishes and plans for an effective e-learning environment so as to satisfy the learners and other stakeholders will be described in the paper. The paper also includes a discussion on some of the challenges in providing quality e-learning and how OUM has overcome these challenges. (Author's abstract)
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spelling oai:eprints.oum.edu.my:1612013-06-14T06:49:56Z Moving Forward with E-learning: The Experience of Open University Malaysia Anuwar Ali, LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education Higher education institutions are embracing e-learning to enhance their learning environment and to provide a range of benefits associated with e-learning. In institutions that offer open distance learning, e-learning has also become a necessity to enable the institutions to serve a greater number of students and to reach out to those who are spread out geographically over a wide area. In addition, e-learning not only supports learners from the pedagogical point of view but also from the administrative angle. At the Open University Malaysia, e-learning has played a key role since it opened its doors to its first batch of 753 learners in August 2001. As part of the university’s blended learning pedagogies, e-learning has been able to support an enrolment of over 65,000 learners from within and outside the country. OUM, hence, finds it imperative that the quality of the e-learning environment is ensured at all times. How OUM establishes and plans for an effective e-learning environment so as to satisfy the learners and other stakeholders will be described in the paper. The paper also includes a discussion on some of the challenges in providing quality e-learning and how OUM has overcome these challenges. (Author's abstract) 2008-04-27 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/161/1/moving_forward.pdf Anuwar Ali, (2008) Moving Forward with E-learning: The Experience of Open University Malaysia. In: The 2nd International Conference and Exhibition for Zain on e-Learning 2008. (Submitted) https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/161/
spellingShingle LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
Anuwar Ali,
Moving Forward with E-learning: The Experience of Open University Malaysia
title Moving Forward with E-learning: The Experience of Open University Malaysia
title_full Moving Forward with E-learning: The Experience of Open University Malaysia
title_fullStr Moving Forward with E-learning: The Experience of Open University Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Moving Forward with E-learning: The Experience of Open University Malaysia
title_short Moving Forward with E-learning: The Experience of Open University Malaysia
title_sort moving forward with e-learning: the experience of open university malaysia
topic LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
url https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/161/