@inproceedings{library_repository655,
       booktitle = {23rd International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI 2010)},
           month = {January},
           title = {Empowering teachers through capacity building and professional development : a collaborative effort},
          author = { Anuwar Ali},
            year = {2010},
           pages = {1--14},
        keywords = {Lifelong learning},
             url = {https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/655/},
        abstract = {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.}
}