title: Moving Forward with E-learning:  The Experience of Open University Malaysia
creator: Anuwar Ali, 
subject: LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
description: Higher education institutions are embracing e-learning to enhance their learning  environment and to provide a range of benefits associated with e-learning. In  institutions that offer open distance learning, e-learning has also become a  necessity to enable the institutions to serve a greater number of students and to  reach out to those who are spread out geographically over a wide area. In  addition, e-learning not only supports learners from the pedagogical point of view  but also from the administrative angle.  At the Open University Malaysia, e-learning has played a key role since it opened  its doors to its first batch of 753 learners in August 2001. As part of the  university’s blended learning pedagogies, e-learning has been able to support an  enrolment of over 65,000 learners from within and outside the country. OUM,  hence, finds it imperative that the quality of the e-learning environment is ensured  at all times. How OUM establishes and plans for an effective e-learning  environment so as to satisfy the learners and other stakeholders will be described  in the paper. The paper also includes a discussion on some of the challenges in  providing quality e-learning and how OUM has overcome these challenges. (Author's abstract)
date: 2008-04-27
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
format: text
identifier: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/161/1/moving_forward.pdf
identifier:   Anuwar Ali,   (2008) Moving Forward with E-learning: The Experience of Open University Malaysia.  In: The 2nd International Conference and Exhibition for Zain on e-Learning 2008.    (Submitted)  
relation: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/161/