MOOCs in Malaysia: a preliminary case study

• Main Authors: Mansor Fadzil, Latifah Abdol Latif, Tengku Amina Munira Tengku Mohd Azzman Shariffadeen
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: L Education (General); LC5800 Distance education
• Online Access: http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1022/1/library-document-1022.pdf; http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1022/
• Institution: Open University Malaysia

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) in Malaysia are a very recent development. At the time of writing of this case study, there are only six higher education institutions that have embarked on a MOOCs initiative. The first Malaysian higher education institution announced its pilot MOOC offering in March 2013. In 2014, five more higher education institutions – four of them public universities and one, i.e. Open University Malaysia (OUM), a private open and distance learning (ODL) institution – began offering MOOCs on two different platforms. At the moment, these initiatives represent a preliminary phase in MOOCs, where Malaysia’s approach can be described as exploratory, focusing less on reaching the widest possible audience, making a significant mark globally or competing with established providers like Coursera, edX and Udacity, but more on learning to use web-based technology to complement current educational delivery systems at the higher education level and introducing MOOCs to the general Malaysian audience. (Introduction from authors)