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H. K. Dharam Singh et al. · Empowering educators through the authentic experience of

creating open educational resources - Open University Malaysia (OUM), Malaysia

to view and gain ideas about possible design elements before creating their own
OER with newer, innovative ideas.

These evaluations were able to provide comprehensive insights into

participants’ experiences and perspectives of the training on OER development.

Sustainability and Transferability

The BUKA Pilot at OUM has su cient resources to sustain the project. All of the
modules developed have already been incorporated into a learning space that has

been developed using WordPress. The learning space has been designed in a fully

online mode with a 20-minute mock classroom recording that will be embedded
into the learning space. In addition, the modules are accompanied by an OER that

provides an overview of the content, and true-or-false-question-based

assessment to promote assessment as learning. The learning space is already
hosted under di erent funding (OUM Internal Research Funding).

There is also the question of the use of software, which cannot be sustained.
This is a non-issue since the pilot was developed with the intention of utilising LA

from the various tools before designing an in-house infographic tool and using an
open-source tool to carry out the analytics and modelling based on the learning

experience gained. As such, OUM will be able to sustain the LA part of the pilot and

create opportunities to pursue research in the area of Data-Driven Learning Design
by incorporating LA into learning design. The only software that needs to be

sustained is Canva, which has been provided to the faculty members to develop
OER. The cost of Canva is low and can easily be sustained using the aforementioned

internal funding. Another ongoing initiative is the development of a fully online

skills-based workshop that is expected to be completed in the short-term and will
continue beyond this project, thus suggesting the possibility of transferability.

The research team and the Faculty of Education intend to o er the BUKA
capacity-building format/materials to school teachers, using the modules in the

online format and online skill-based workshop. If a successful collaboration with

the Ministry of Education can be formed, then the pilot project can be successfully
transferred into a Professional Certificate Programme for teachers. Canva is also

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