Osman ONL's Journey

First of all, I would like to state, for the record, that I am a key believer of sharing educational materials for the benefit of students. However, I feel that there are still challenges that need to be addressed with regards to open learning. As mentioned in my first reflective blog, Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore, introduced the Masterplans for ICT in Education since 1997. In the Education Technology Plan , teachers are envisioned to be designers and facilitators of meaningful tech-mediated learning. They should be able to: Be designers of learning experiences; Be skillful practitioners who facilitates active learning by leveraging on technology and learning data, and; Be digital learners who develop themselves professionally to learn and share digitally and keep abreast with educational technology.   Hence, the path and platform for Singapore educators for sharing and openness are already there. There is also support for teachers and learning resources are shared

My Experience I began teaching in 1998. In 1997. When the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Singapore, began introducing the Masterplans for ICT in Education , quite a number of educators were relatively new to information technology and were hence rather sceptical in utilising it to teach. They preferred the chalk and talk method of teaching that educators have been accustomed to for decades, rather than this new advanced technological way of teaching. However, as MOE introduced the Masterplan in 4 phases, educators began to adapt to the new reality that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education was here to stay. As such, educators themselves have to keep abreast of this change. From 2003 to 2008, MOE pushed forth an emphasis for schools to achieve the basic ICT standard in education and integrate ICT in their curriculum and assessment methods. From 2009 to 2014, the focus was on strengthening this integration of ICT in school curriculums and modes of assessments