2nd Regional Symposium on Open Educational Resources: Beyond Advocacy, Research and Policy 24 – 27 June 2014 Sub-theme 3: Content Creating OER for Teacher Education Sook Jhee Yoon, Kean Wah Lee

1. OER Symposium 2014
CREATING OER FOR TEACHER
EDUCATION
YOON SOOK JHEE, TAN CHOON KEONG &
LEE KEAN WAH
UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH

2. 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

3. OER UMS

5. 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

6. OER Creation Process

7. Enculturation
● Creating awareness on the needs of OER
● Unlearn and relearn on content creation
● Long term benefits of OER
● Copyright
● E-learning training

8. Content design
● Desktop authoring tools
● Web-based authoring tools
● Public domain images, open textbook etc
● Collaborative tools
● 5-minute lectures

9. Video recording

10. Video

11. Video

12. Evaluation
● Peer evaluation
● Student evaluation
● Public evaluation (school teachers)

13. 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

14. Lesson Learned
● Understanding of OER and Creative Commons is vital.
● Peer evaluation of the content
● Language clarity, exploitability and practicality of the
content.

15. Conclusion
● Teacher as content creator
● Teacher as OER contributor.