DEVELOPING OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER) FOR MALAYSIAN
CLASSROOMS: THE HOTS EXPERIENCE
A REGIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON OER: AN ASIAN PERSPECTIVE AND POLICIES AND PRACTICES
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 onlyii) 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.