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February 09, 2022

Malaysia’s Ministry of Education launches e-learning portal for 10,000 schools

Part of Malaysia’s Education Blueprint 2013-2025 focuses on information and communications technology which is key to scaling up learning. In collaboration with Microsoft and other providers, the Ministry of Education (MOE) launched the Digital Educational Learning Initiative Malaysia. The system is helping the MOE drive education forward, despite problems caused by the COVID 19 pandemic.

Ministry of Education Malaysia

Malaysia’s Ministry of Education (MOE) has been implementing the country’s Education Blueprint 2013-2025 for years now. Among others, information and communications technology (ICT) was key to scaling up learning across the country. To digitize education, the Ministry of Education worked hand in hand with Microsoft Malaysia and other industry players. The collaboration is responsible for setting up Digital Educational Learning Initiative Malaysia (DELIMa)’. Today, DELIMa enables more than 5.2 million students and teachers throughout the country to access Office 365 A1 using a single sign-on, as well as learning resources from Google and Apple.

“We wanted learning to be accessible to everyone, so we launched DELIMa, which is a multi-technology ecosystem. The choice of what learning platform to use is in the users’ hands. But it’s undeniable that Microsoft technology for education is amazing and holistic. Apart from Office 365, Teams gives users a high quality, enjoyable environment within which to learn,” says Dr. Qhamariah bt Samu, Deputy Director at Educational Resources and Technology Division, MOE.

In 2014, the MOE started working closely with Microsoft Malaysia under the Partners in Learning Program. “This is how we were able to integrate other teaching and learning platforms into DELIMa in 2019. At the moment, we have nearly 2,000 Microsoft Innovative Educators (MIE) and 260 MIE experts. We also have a number of Microsoft showcase schools. These programs have enabled most Malaysian teachers to be competent and skillful in using Microsoft technology,” explains Dr. Qhamariah. “Overall our experience with Microsoft has been very good. For example, coding is something that is already part of our syllabus, but Microsoft helped us set up a Minecraft competition which was really interesting to our students.”

The DELIMa system is one of the largest national deployments worldwide. “As of now, 86.5 percent of our teachers use the platform 65.94 percent of students are active users. I think this is a great achievement especially given that we launched only a little more than a year ago,” says Dr. Qhamariah. 

When the coronavirus pandemic became widespread, Malaysia issued the Movement Control Order (MCO). This forced the MOE to accelerate its digital learning efforts. Microsoft Malaysia partnered once again with the Ministry of Higher Education to conduct open webinars for educators. “At the start of the MCO, it was difficult to encourage teachers and students to go online. They weren’t ready for it. So we started with six webinars for teachers to enable them to integrate technology into teaching and learning. We had over 570,000 views for our webinars. After that, we were able to reach students. Feedback from students was encouraging. We had 46 sessions of e-classes for students with over 610,000 views,” adds Dr. Qhamariah.

However, across the globe,  what became evident during the pandemic is that access to the internet and to digital devices is a challenge for educators. “We have to help students who don’t have internet access or the gadgets they need to work from home. For 12 years, we were producing EduWebTV. Because of students’ problems with access, we started with terrestrial TV since most households own a television. We also made sure students have hard copies of textbooks. Some teachers have also had to send assignments and notes by postal service,” says Dr. Qhamariah. 

Despite these challenges, Dr. Qhamariah remains positive about the potentials of e-learning. “Because of the pandemic, all of us are starting a completely new journey. We are learning from each other. We may have different approaches, modes and strategies. But our ultimate aim is to make sure our students -- our future leaders -- are educated with what they need to be successful. The solutions we choose should be what’s best for our students and for our teachers. Microsoft offers exactly that and I would recommend Microsoft to everyone involved in education.”

“6.5 percent of our teachers use the Digital Educational Learning Initiative Malaysia system and 65.94 percent of students are active users.”

Dr. Qhamariah bt Samu, Deputy Director at Educational Resources and Technology Division, Ministry of Education

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