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session before attending the workshop. Table 7 summarises the focus groups and
participants who were involved during the second and third phases.

Table 7
Summary of Focus Group and Participants

No. of
Group Focus Group Faculty Field
Participants
Completed
1 Focus Group 1 FTAS Various 5 participants

On-going
1 Focus Group 2 FTAS Health Science 4 participants

2 Focus Group 3 FTAS Information Technology 4 participants

3 Focus Group 4 FOE Early Childhood Education 4 participants
4 Focus Group 5 FOE Education 4 participants
New Group

5 Focus Group 6 FSSH Islamic Studies 4 participants
6 Focus Group 7 FSSH Psychology/Counselling 4 participants

7 Focus Group 8 FBM Finance/Accountancy 4 participants
8 Focus Group 9 FBM Business/Marketing 4 participants

Special Group
10 Workshop 1 Others Selected educators 8 participants

The third phase will be extended to include educators from selected programmes in

a larger group of around 25 participants in order to improve the teaching and
learning support. After this phase, the pilot will be converted into fully online

courses by embedding the materials into a learning space and the courses will be
used to train educators with a focus on the creation of OER with appropriate

Creative Commons licences.

Process: Development of Self-instructional Training Modules

In developing self-instructional training modules, eight stages of the process were

completed (see Table 8).

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