In support to the global agenda of promoting sustainable development, a European Commission – AsiaLink Programme assisted project entitled Open Learning Provision for Postgraduate and Industrial Training in Sustainable Technology has been implemented through the consortium of five universities in UK, Sweden, Malaysia and Philippines. The creation of the open learning units is currently undertaken and they will be applied to postgraduate programmes and as industrial short courses of the partner universities. Ultimately, the units will be extended into an international open learning course in Master of Science Degree in Sustainable Technology.
As a pre – implementation quality assurance protocol, the open learning units would be tested using a specifically designed methodology. The testing parameters would be on the prospective user respondents’ perception on the units’ educational, accessibility, cost effectiveness and marketability aspects. The methodology shall involve exposure of respondents to the open learning units on-line, filling up a questionnaire and data processing/analysis. With the expected results of the test, the project implementers hope to identify the users’ perceptions and use them as basis for the units’ further improvement.

Keywords: online and distance learning, open learning module development, quality assurance.