Cover Image

Empowering teachers through capacity building and professional development : a collaborative effort

Teacher training and capacity building are important development imperatives for many nations including Malaysia. With the view to upgrade the teachers’ academic qualifications, the Ministry of Education (MOE) takes a serious stand in the issue of teacher quality and upgrading by introducing the Spe...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anuwar Ali,
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2010
Subjects:
LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
LC5800 Distance education
Online Access:http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/655/1/TSAA_ICSEI_2010_131109.pdf
http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/655/6/empowering_teachers_anuwar.pdf
http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/655/
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my.oum.655
record_format eprints
spelling my.oum.6552013-05-17T05:50:30Z Empowering teachers through capacity building and professional development : a collaborative effort Anuwar Ali, LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education LC5800 Distance education Teacher training and capacity building are important development imperatives for many nations including Malaysia. With the view to upgrade the teachers’ academic qualifications, the Ministry of Education (MOE) takes a serious stand in the issue of teacher quality and upgrading by introducing the Special Degree Programme for Non-Graduate and In-Service Teachers. Open University Malaysia (OUM) has been chosen to be the partner in this programme, under which the university has successfully produced about 11,200 graduate teachers during the last eight years. This paper illustrates the salient features of the OUM-MOE collaboration that was, from the outset, strategically planned on the basic need to achieve quality education for the teaching profession. Thus, all aspects of the delivery system have been tailored towards this important imperative which includes the adoption of OUM’s blended pedagogy. It is also in this context that the leveraging on information and communication technology (ICT), via OUM’s Learning Management System (myLMS), e-learning, iRadio and digital library, has become a significant component of the teaching and learning process. This paper will thus highlight how open and distance learning (ODL), through its flexibility and accessibility, has been able to benefit training and education as well as enable MOE to save substantial costs on every teacher trained. To ensure the success of this OUM-MOE collaborative effort, the university gives emphasis on the principal objective of this enterprise so as to instil professionalism, commitment, good ethics and quality awareness in teachers, thus contributing to the enhancement of the country’s education sector. 2010-01-05 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/655/1/TSAA_ICSEI_2010_131109.pdf slideshow http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/655/6/empowering_teachers_anuwar.pdf Anuwar Ali, (2010) Empowering teachers through capacity building and professional development : a collaborative effort. In: 23rd International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI 2010), 05-08 January 2010, Kuala Lumpur. http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/655/
institution Open University Malaysia
building OUM Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Open University Malaysia
content_source OUM Knowledge Repository
url_provider http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/
topic LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
LC5800 Distance education
spellingShingle LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
LC5800 Distance education
Anuwar Ali,
Empowering teachers through capacity building and professional development : a collaborative effort
description Teacher training and capacity building are important development imperatives for many nations including Malaysia. With the view to upgrade the teachers’ academic qualifications, the Ministry of Education (MOE) takes a serious stand in the issue of teacher quality and upgrading by introducing the Special Degree Programme for Non-Graduate and In-Service Teachers. Open University Malaysia (OUM) has been chosen to be the partner in this programme, under which the university has successfully produced about 11,200 graduate teachers during the last eight years. This paper illustrates the salient features of the OUM-MOE collaboration that was, from the outset, strategically planned on the basic need to achieve quality education for the teaching profession. Thus, all aspects of the delivery system have been tailored towards this important imperative which includes the adoption of OUM’s blended pedagogy. It is also in this context that the leveraging on information and communication technology (ICT), via OUM’s Learning Management System (myLMS), e-learning, iRadio and digital library, has become a significant component of the teaching and learning process. This paper will thus highlight how open and distance learning (ODL), through its flexibility and accessibility, has been able to benefit training and education as well as enable MOE to save substantial costs on every teacher trained. To ensure the success of this OUM-MOE collaborative effort, the university gives emphasis on the principal objective of this enterprise so as to instil professionalism, commitment, good ethics and quality awareness in teachers, thus contributing to the enhancement of the country’s education sector.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Anuwar Ali,
author_facet Anuwar Ali,
author_sort Anuwar Ali,
title Empowering teachers through capacity building and professional development : a collaborative effort
title_short Empowering teachers through capacity building and professional development : a collaborative effort
title_full Empowering teachers through capacity building and professional development : a collaborative effort
title_fullStr Empowering teachers through capacity building and professional development : a collaborative effort
title_full_unstemmed Empowering teachers through capacity building and professional development : a collaborative effort
title_sort empowering teachers through capacity building and professional development : a collaborative effort
publishDate 2010
url http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/655/1/TSAA_ICSEI_2010_131109.pdf
http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/655/6/empowering_teachers_anuwar.pdf
http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/655/
_version_ 1644309036070338560
score 13.211869

Similar Items