Current Status and Efforts for
Using ICT
Leong Chee Kin
SEAMEO RECSAM
Penang, Malaysia
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Presentation:
• Malaysia effort in utilising ICT as one of
the key foundations for its transition
from a P-based economy to a K-based
economy by 2020 (Developed Country
Status)
• SEAMEO RECSAM complementing
government effort.
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Vision 2020
• The ultimate objective: Malaysia that is a
fully developed country by the year 2020
• Calls for sustained productivity-driven
growth
− Possible only with a technologically literate
and critically thinking workforce
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Efforts of Integrating ICT in
Education and Training
• Educational Technology Division
• Curriculum Development Division
• Teacher Training Division
• Institute of Teacher Education
• School Management Division
• Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commision
• National Information Technology Council
• Ministry of Energy, Telecommunication and Multimedia
• Multimedia Super Corridor Development Corporation
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MOE
• See ICT as a tool to revolutionise
learning, to produce richer curricula, to
enhance pedagogies, to lead to more
effective organisational structures in
schools, to produce stronger links
between schools and society and to
empower learners (Belawati, 2007)
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ICT Infrastructure, Support and
Access
• Smart School Project
− A learning institution systematically
reinvented in terms of teaching and learning
as well as the improvement of the school
management processes
− Components
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The Smart School Milestones
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ICT related projects
• SchoolNet
• MySchoolNet Project
• School Computer Labs
• Educational Television
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Policies of MOE
• ICT literacy for all students
− ICT as an enabler to reduce the digital gap
between schools
• Role and function of ICT in education as a
curriculum and tool of teaching and learning
− Students learn ICT related subjects
− Use of courseware, Internet and other generic
applications
• Use of ICT to increase productivity, efficiency,
and effectiveness of the management system
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ICT for Teaching and Learning
of Science and Mathematics
• Computers and related technologies began to be used
in schools for the teaching-learning activities and
school management
• 2003:Use of English Language in the teaching of Science
and Mathematics
− Beginning of greater use of ICT tools, courseware,
and resources
− All schools equipped with laptop, personal
computers, LCD projectors, speakers, computer
screens, computers trolleys, TVs and printers
• Five phases-completed in 2007
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Teacher Professional Development
• Training of teachers in the application of
ICT in all 27 teachers Education Institutes
(Resource Management Course) and public
universities
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SEAMEO RECSAM
• Equip teachers trainers, teachers the
necessary skills of using ICT
 pedagogies
• Introduce Software that promote process
skills, higher order thinking skills,
problem solving skills, meta-cognitive
skills, cooperative skills and
communication skills
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SEAMEO RECSAM
• Calculators
• Data Loggers
• Basic / intermediate Microsoft Office software
• Integration of Microsoft Office software
• Use of websites and internet eg.: Cloud Computing
• Specific programs e.g.: Intel® Learn Program
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DataLoggers
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Interactive Science Simulations
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dBook
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General Statistics of Education
In Malaysia
Information
Number
Number of Primary Schools
7695
Number of Secondary Schools
2248
Number of Primary School Students
2899228
Number of Secondary School
Students
2344891
Number of Primary School Teachers
230449
Number of Secondary School
Teachers
175267
30 June, 2010; School: Schools Division, MOE M
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