Expanding Open Distance Learning Opportunities : OUMs Experiences

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Expanding Open Distance Learning Opportunities
OUMs Experiences
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Acknowledge Change
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To cope with the Change

• Out-of-the-box thinking
• Flexibility, just in time responses
• Going beyond the disciplines
• Problem centered teams
• Complex Hollywood style projects and
  productions
• Forms of nonlinear thinking

(Howard Gardner)
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Collaborate Share
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Consortiums
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• Recognition

National Centre for eLearning Distance Learning
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• Franchising

Yemen (since 2005) Bahrain (since 2006) Maldives
(July 2008) Vietnam (January 2009) Ghana (January
2009)
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Flexibility
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Pedagogy
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Admissions

• Open Entry
• OUM championed the cause
• Centre for Assessment of Prior Learning
• Portfolio
• Entry Test

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Goals Divides
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The United Nations Millennium Development Goals
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Broadcast Media
Educational Institutions
ICT Sector
Otto Evenyjh, 2009
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Technology Pedagogical Approaches
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PERCEPTION
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GenerationsWhich do you belong to?
Net Gen (Digital Natives/ Millennials) 1981-99
Baby Boomers 1946-64
Generation X 1965-80

• Video games
• PC
• Email
• CDs
• Individualist

• Web
• Cell phone
• IM
• MP3s
• Online communities

• TV generation
• Typewriters
• Telephone
• Memos
• Family focus

Source http//www.slideshare.net/gskeesee/learni
ng-theories-341414
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Todays Students Generation Y

• 97 own a computer
• 94 own a cell phone
• 76 use Instant Messaging.
• 15 of IM users are logged on 24 hours a day/7
  days a week
• 34 use websites as their primary source of news
• 28 own a blog and 44 read blogs
• 49 download music using peer-to-peer file
  sharing
• 75 of students have a MySpace or social
  networking account
• 60 own some type of portable music and/or video
  device such as an iPod.

Source http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_
Y
Survey of 7,705 college students in the US, 2007
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Communication Styles

• Short
• Mobile phone is more for SMS than talk
• Instant communications
• Economical
• Written words are casual, oral communication is
  formal
• New forms of characters phonetic language
  visuals

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• My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we usd 2 go 2 SA 2C my
  bro, his GF thr 3 -_at_ kds. FWIW, ILSA - its
  gr8. GTG, PAW
• My summer holidays were a complete waste of time.
  Before, we used to go to South Australia to see
  my brother, his girlfriend and their 3 screaming
  kids. For what its worth, I love South Australia
  - its a great place. Got to go, parents are
  watching.
• 179 letters vs 72

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MIDT Course Bloghttp//hmlt5303.blogspot.com/
Zoraini Wati Abas, OUM Academic Tea Talk
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http//bbmp-1103.blogspot.com/
http//bbmp-1103.blogspot.com/
31 March 2009
OUM Academic Tea Talk
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OUMs iRadio/podcasts
http//iradio.oum.edu.my
OUM Academic Tea Talk
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OUM mobile learninghttp//mlearn.oum.edu.my/in
dex_m.htm
OUM Academic Tea Talk
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http//www.oercommons.org/
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Implications to educators
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Five Minds

• Disciplined
• Synthesizing
• Creating
• Respectful
• Ethical

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http//www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/rma0280l.jpg
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