A REGIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON OER: AN ASIAN PERSPECTIVE AND POLICIES AND PRACTICES
DEVELOPING OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES (OER) FOR MALAYSIAN
CLASSROOMS: THE HOTS EXPERIENCE
YOON SOOK JHEE
**RAJENDRAN NAGAPPAN, ROSMA BINTI OSMAN, SEVA BALA SUNDARAM
*UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH
**SULTAN IDRIS EDUCATION UNIVERSITY
WAWASAN OPEN UNIVERSITY SEPTEMBER 2012
Overview
• The needs of OER materials to teach
HOTS
• Creating the materials
• Creating the website
• Response from teachers and
students
• Sustainability
Emphasis on HOTS
The need for HOTS materials
• Teachers are reluctant to integrate
various thinking strategies and skills in
their classrooms (Rajendran, 1998).
• Lack of materials to teach HOTS (Rahil
Mahyuddin et al., 2004)
• Materials available are not based on the
Malaysian curriculum and context.
• Materials need to be modified
extensively
• Critical subjects: Bahasa Malaysia,
History, Geography, English
Creating the resources
• Subjects chosen: Bahasa Malaysia, English
and History
• Resources: Lesson plans, worksheets,
teaching materials
• Verification of the resources (6 teachers and
90 students from a suburban secondary
school in Perak, Malaysia)
• Feedback from teachers and students :
lesson preparation, lesson implementation,
teaching and learning activities, HOTS
integration
• Modifications on the resources
Creating the website
• Host: Sultan Idris Education University
• Url: http://oerthinking.upsi.edu.my/
• Content management system: Joomla!
Version 1.7
• Research team members attended OER
workshops (f2f and online) and Joomla!
workshops.
• Challenges:
i) access from 8am to 5pm only
ii) access within campus vicinity only
Response from teachers and
students
• Positive attitudes from the teachers
and students
• Teachers have limited knowledge to
revise the resources-follow the
resources strictly
• HOTS elements: aligned with the
syllabus, more elements can be
included
Sustainability
• Teachers from the schools are invited
to use, revise and submit the
resources.
• Resources will be reviewed before
made available for public viewing
• OER is promoted in SIEU through
sharing and contribution of resources
from trainee teachers.
Conclusion
• Beneficial to schools with limited
access to quality teaching and
learning materials related to HOTS.
• Second phase: develop resources on
other core subjects taught in
Malaysian classrooms.