Content Development for e-Learning at the National Defence University of Malaysia

Dr Jowati binti Juhary The National Defence University of Malaysia Sungai Besi Camp, 57000 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia jowati@upnm.edu.my

Outline
1. Introduction 2. e-Learning in Military Organisation 3. Analysis & Discussion 4. Conclusion

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Introduction
1. Objective - to identify the challenges of content development for e-learning practice at the NDUM. 2. The University started as a military academy; new status new focus and strategies. 3. Methodology semi-structured interviews with staff at the University.
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e-Learning in Military Organisations

1. Malaysian Armed Forces a programme offered by a private institution to upgrade the academic qualifications of staff 2. Australian Defence Force commerciallyavailable war games used by the ADF were growing significantly due to the need for modelling and simulation support and scarce alternative teaching resources 3. U.S. Military - the capacity of e-learning to prepare reservists in a timely manner was a primary motive behind the changes that stressed the need for training to be feasible at any time and anywhere
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Analysis & Discussion

Challenges 1. The first challenge relates to the non-existence of neither ICT nor e-learning policy at the NDUM. 2. The second challenge is on the ownership of e-learning initiatives at the NDUM. 3. The third challenge is on convincing the faculty to understand the roles of elearning for tertiary education.
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Analysis & Discussion

4. The fourth challenge is on the awareness level of academic staff about the importance of providing students with alternative or supporting tool for learning, which happens to be very low. 5. The last challenge is on content development for military related courses, which is bound by confidential and security issues.
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Analysis & Discussion

Immediate Actions 1. Set up an e-Learning Unit at the NDUM will have its own staff and budgets and will also be responsible to draw up e-learning policies for the NDUM. 2. Plan series of workshops and seminars about content developments for e-learning to understand important issues including the concept of teaching with technology, learning theories, testing and evaluation, the use of ICT in education, and material selections for learning with computers.
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Conclusion
The challenges for e-learning and econtent development mainly because of the lack of understanding of e-learning as a ecomplementary tool in classrooms. The level of awareness of educators in terms of the potential of e-learning very low. ejowati@upnm.edu.my 8

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