Welcome to e-Learning in Malaysia!

If you want to find relevant information about
e-Learning in Malaysia, where do you go?

Hi All,
Welcome to this new blog exploring e-learning in Malaysia. Since I am working and living in Malaysia (Married to a Malaysian, too!), coaching myself to become a Learning Strategist, and will hopefully do my PhD in Education over the coming years, it is critical that I also truly understand and know what is going on here from every singly angle possible. So, I hope this blog will be a useful online space to manage this learning adventure, and hopefully encourage others to share their own Malaysian e-Learning stories and experiences here (Yeah, later if this works, we should perhaps add a Wiki, too!).

So, if you have a story or link (URL) to share, you are more than welcome. Since my language skills in Bahasa Malaysia is quite poor, I would especially appreciate summaries and findings (or extracted juice) of Malaysian e-learning stories, projects, articles and papers written in Bahasa Malaysia, or any other language for that sake (as long as we are talking about Malaysia and e-learning).

E-LEARNING?
What do you mean by e-learning? There are tons of e-learning definitions (e-Learning and eLearning) out there, but for the sake of it, this is what I mean in this blog:

"The utilization of ICT to facilitate and support LEARNING."

(ICT: Information and Communications Technology)

There is a lot of other jargons such as M(obile)-Learning that can often confuse people, but I reckon all these one letter jargons can be swept under the umbrella word e(lectronic)-Learning (which again can be swept under the word 'learning').

WHY THIS BLOG?

e-Learning or online learning (formally and informally!) is booming all over the world, and this is also the case in Malaysia. However, to find relevant information regarding e-learning here is often a nightmare (based on my experience!). Unless I am wrong (If so, please share with us a good starting point?), there is no one-stop up-to-date news and resource site about e-learning in Malaysia.

GOALS?

I hope this blog will eventually evolve into a good starting point to discover e-learning things going on in Malaysia (that is accessible to the public). This learning adventure will try to mash-up the juiciest e-learning stuff going on in Malaysia (past, present, future), including:

• Higher Education (Universities & Colleges)
• Schools (Primary & Secondary)
• Corporate Learning
• Communities
• Projects
• Solution Providers
• Research Papers & Articles
• People
• Conferences
• Blogs
• Etc.

In short, the main goal for setting up this blog, is to discover, learn, share, discuss, network, and reflect about e-learning in Malaysia.

ANOTHER E-LEARNING BLOG?
If you are looking for free eLearning tools, open educational resources (OER), and stuff about online learning pedagogy (going on around the world), I suppose you might want to check out my other blog: ZaidLearn.

Finally, I hope you enjoy and engage in both of these learning adventures!

Always Learning!

Warm Regards,

Zaid

P.S. I would have loved to call this blog simply 'Learning in Malaysia' cutting out the 'e', but I suppose the term 'e-learning' is still widely used (also learning might seem too general). Perhaps in a year or two, when the 'e' (technology!) is totally immersed in all forms of learning, we might as well give up the 'e', and simply call it learning. I am still learning :)