1. Key Issues in Technology-Enabled Learning: policy considerations
Sanjaya Mishra, PhD
Education Specialist, eLearning
Commonwealth of Learning, Canada
March 19, | Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

2. Malaysia: Gross Enrolment Ratio (Higher Education)
31.59
29.7
48% in 2012, as per the Blueprint ( )
Source: UIS

3. ICT Access in Malaysia
140.8%
78.79%

4. Access to Higher Education
5th most expensive country for higher education
Parents spend 55% of salary for child’s tertiary education
Robust quality higher education system (comprising of 20 public universities)
Source:

5. Access to Textbooks

6. Malaysian Education Blueprint

7. Shift #9 Tracking Measures
Number of universities involved in MOOCs common course delivery;
Number of Malaysian HLIs in Top 200 Webometrics rankings;
Number of students (Malaysian and international) enrolled in Malaysian MOOCs; and
Percentage of blended learning courses offered by HLIs.

8. New Focus on Teaching and Learning 4.0

9. Fourth Industrial Revolution
CC BY-SA Source: (User:ChristophRoser)

10. Technology and Higher Education
Face-to-Face Courses
Blended Courses
Distance/Online Courses
MOOC
Mobile learning
ICT integration in teaching and learning
Open and Distance Learning

11. NMC Report 2017
Source:

12. Technology-Enabled Learning
Key to life long learning
Inculcate 21 century skills
Facilitate acquisition of digital education skills
Learning facilitated by use of technology
Promoting reaching the unreached
Providing access to open educational resources

13. Interventions Technology Capacity Policy Technology-Enabled Learning
More government and other organisations adopt policies and strategies for, and devote resources to, technology-enabled learning for innovation and skills.

14. Take a Self-Test

15. Key Benefits of Technology-Enabled Learning
Assisting learners acquire new skills
Savings for the organisation
Increasing access
Encouraging self-directed learning
Improving student learning
Improving teaching practices
Others?

16. Key Issues in Policy Development
Vision of the Policy
Principles and Objectives
Technology and Infrastructure
Teaching, Learning and Assessment
Professional Development
Governance

17. Vision is the Art of seeing the invisible.
Vision of the Policy
Vision is the Art of seeing the invisible.
- Jonathan Swift
Why this policy?
What will it try to achieve?
The vision of the TEL policy is to extend the reach and richness of teaching and learning in the university by using information and communication technology effectively and efficiently.

18. Principles Enabling improvement in learning
Quality of student engagement
Openness
Access to world resources

19. Objectives
Provide Universal access to teaching, learning and research information
Improve relevance of the learning experiences of the students
Create an environment of sharing and networking
Engage students to learn using a variety of sources and technologies
Use advanced and appropriate technology
Provide an accessible teaching and learning environment to people with disabilities.
Enhance teaching, tutoring, assessment, support and research experiences of teachers

20. Technology and Infrastructure
Reflect and question what are available
What needs to be done, and not what you want to do
Access to technology, where and how?
Reliable and secure technology environment
Commitment to low-cost and open technologies?

21. Teaching, Learning and Assessment
Integration of technology, who is responsible? – teachers? Board of Studies? Administration?
Teaching with technology (LMS into courses)
How is assessment done and what changes need to be done (internal assessment)
Opening up learning opportunities and resources (OA repository)

22. Professional Development
Preparing teachers for TEL
Capacity building – when and how?
What incentives for using TEL?
What level of support to avoid downtime?
How scholarly approach to TEL is implemented?

23. Governance Who is responsible for the implementation of TEL policy?
What resources are available to make the policy active?
How to share teaching and learning materials developed? (OER)
Who owns the content?
What level of monitoring and evaluation needed to collect evidence of success?

24. SWOT Analysis
Group Activity to think about Technology-Enabled Learning
Present in groups

25. While proposing statements/action:
Policy Drafting Guide
Policy is an intent or commitment of the organization to achieve its objectives/ goals/ mission.
In each group:
Discuss the issues relevant to TEL policy
Propose statements that can be part of the policy
Each Statements should pass the test of:
Relevance
Feasibility
Appropriateness
While proposing statements/action:
Answer what the university will provide, how it will provide as part of its commitment.

26. Thank You