Category: TES and TESDCP

What are digital materials that you can consider as e-content?   This is the question that I ask some of my colleagues.  There are variety of answers from them.  But, I summarise the examples in the given table below.  

Type of digital material	Examples
Social media	Instagram post e.g. cooking demonstration etc., Facebook post (but you have to make your Facebook public) and such.
Blog	people.utm.my [e.g. you write instruction that you use for Active Learning activity in your class that you share on your personal webpage]
Document Sharing	Google docs, Google forms etc.  that you share the link with others
Collaboration tools	Padlet or Prezi that contains notes and activity that requires students to collaborate with each other.  Example: Research Methodology class
Learning Management System	Flipgrid (Example: Human Development class), Acadly
Gamification	Set of questions that you have created in Quizziz or Kahoot! (examples) that you share with others [You need to set the questions as PUBLIC].  Example: Educational Psychology class
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)	Any material that you develop with others that you share through online
OpenCourse Ware (OCW)	Digital materials that you copyright and share for common usage
Mobile Apps	I have no idea on this
Computer-mediated reality	I have no idea on this

Ops…. I forgot to put examples for Video based learning.  Sorry.  For video based learning, if you have a video or use video that YOU CREATE yourself for your teaching and learning activities, it would be considered.  If you ask your students to create videos and they upload on Youtube (using their own account), it is not counted as video based learning.

So, this year (2020), I challenge myself to learn one video making/editing using whatever format (offline or online – I find that offline is a bit trickier).  So far, I have tried Moovly, Powtoon, and Biteable.  Each has its own unique features.  I am just an amateur to review those things.

Here are some of the videos that I have created so far

1.  Think-Pair-Share (Moovly)
2. Sternberg’s theory of intelligence (Moovly)
3. Cattell’s theory of intelligence (Moovly)
4. Spearman’s theory of intelligence (Moovly)
5. Thurstone’s theory of intelligence (Powtoon)

 

E-content is not a new thing at UTM.  But for me, it is a new thing.  When I underwent my Latihan Ikhtisas, they were implementing this.  So, I just know this when I attended the TES workshop last June 2019.  

I try to find more information about this.  A short handout was given by Dr Nurbiha through email dated on 7 November 2018 [Click HERE to see the handout in PDF format].  

So, what is e-content [e-kandungan]?

DEFINITION:

E-content is any digital open access material based onDasar e-Pembelajaran Negara (DePAN) provided

1.         it is developed/created/constructed by instructor(s) of an affiliated education institution

2.         it does not infringe copyright 

3.         it is offered publicly through online medium for the purpose of teaching and learning .

4.         it is accessible to public using variety of platforms except UTM e-Learning (for UTM e-Learning, any material linked or uploaded is accessible only to registered users)  

How can e-content to be considered as bonus in ELPPT?

As long as your material fulfilled the 4 aspects as mentioned above, you can link it in your TES [Refer to the handout to see the steps involved] .   

What are the materials considered as e-content?

1. Social media
2. Blog
3. Document sharing
4. Learning Management System (LMS)
5. Collaboration tools
6. Gamification
7. Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
8. Video-based learning
9. Opencourse ware (OCW)
10. Mobile Apps
11. Computer-mediated reality

Disclaimer: Personally, I only know some of it because I have experienced creating/developing/using it.  But others, I only hear from my colleagues who have developed and are using the materials in their class.  So, my knowledge in this is rather limited though.

There are no specific rules to write your teaching philosophy.  After all, it is YOUR teaching philosophy.  It is yours.  If you have certain philosophy, ideology or belief, it is technically “none-of-other-people-business” right to judge you.  After all, we are different individuals and thus, our beliefs are uniquely our own.  This is the common assumption.

But, if our teaching philosophy in TESDCP will be evaluated by some people in our school and faculty, it means that the assessors will use “certain” rubric to evaluate our teaching philosophy.  Isn’t it so?   So, in that sense there will be different hierarchy or rating for our teaching philosophy, right?   What should we do then?

This makes me think about how to write my teaching philosophy.  One of the common tips that I find from the internet about writing a teaching philosophy is to write it from heart (and soul).  I have written mine few weeks ago after I attended the TES workshop in late June.

But after a while, I start to think about the best example of teaching philosophy and its criteria.   It is not that I think too much about how I will be evaluated but rather, I want to see how my current teaching philosophy has the essential elements of a good teaching philosophy because being a non-native speaker of English, I might not be able to write my teaching philosophy proficiently  as what I might have originally intended.

I discussed this with my colleague, Dr Narina.  She also has similar thoughts on this.  So, as we tried to find any guideline on how to write a teaching philosophy from UTM website but to no avail, she came across a guideline given by other universities instead.  One of the straight-forward guideline is by Iowa State University.  She shares this with me.   [Psstt… you can also watch a video from Youtube.   HERE is the link]

Basically, Iowa State University Centre of Teaching and Learning states 4 core ideas about teaching philosophy.  The 4 core ideas are

1. What are your objectives as a teacher?
2. How will you achieve those objectives?
3. How will you measure your teaching effectiveness?
4. Why?

If some of you are still wondering on how to write your teaching philosophy, you can use the 4 core ideas as a guideline of your writing.   I know some of you might say that we are UTM academicians, not Iowa State University, but I think as a start, we can use the 4 core ideas just to guide our thoughts.  At least, we have “substance” in our writing.  Better yet, we can sub-divide our teaching philosophy into 4 divisions: objectives, ways to achieve those objective, measure of teaching effectiveness and personal reasons of choosing the career as an academician i.e. teaching line of profession. 😀

So, all the best in preparing our TESDCP!   We have few more days  before the deadline (15 August 2019 is the deadline for submission)

Disclaimer: This is what my friend shares with me that I want to share with others.   I hope that it would benefit some of us in writing our teaching philosophy.

There is nothing you can add or edit here.  This is a summary of what you have written, uploaded or linked on the previous headings: Course File, Self-Assessment & Reflections, Professional Activities and Measures of Student Learning.  Just make sure every single button that you see here is GREEN.  If you see any part is still RED, it means that there might be something incomplete. 

I took this picture from Prof Hadi Nur’s blog.  What does it mean when there is RED indicator in B range sections and C section?  It means that in this case, Prof Hadi has not completed the Course File and Measure of Student Learning sections yet.  Once he has completed the Course File section [evidences in terms of course information, sample of a class note, sample of a quiz, test etc. and final examination with marking scheme as well as Course Assessment Report (CAR)] and Measure of Student Learning aka C2 [Feedback and testimony from others], all sections will appear GREEN like mine.  

Last but not least, “Always double check what you have done before you log out“.  😀 

P.S.:  Once you have got ALL GREEN, don’t forget to click SUBMIT (under Action)

NOTE: If you want to know more about how to complete your TESDCP, go to the following link 

1.  Getting Started
2. Course File
3. Self-Assessment & Reflections,
4.  Professional Activities and 
5. Measure of Student Learning

Special Note: I would like to thank Prof Hadi Nur for allowing me to use his picture as an example in this post.  I emailed him to let him know about it and request for his permission.  Permission granted.  It is not my intention to downgrade him in one way or another.  It is just as an example to show how an incomplete yearly validation looks like.   If you have similar thing appears on your TESDCP yearly validation, you don’t have to worry about it.  It just means that you need to complete some of the required parts.