About
About CENDEF
The Centre for Digital Education Futures (CENDEF) at Open University Malaysia (OUM) was established to support critical inquiry and strategic engagement with the rapidly evolving landscape of digital education. As technologies, institutions, and learning practices continue to change, the Centre provides a space for examining how these transformations shape the futures of education.
CENDEF advances its work through research, fellowships, public dialogue, and collaborative initiatives that explore emerging questions in open, distance, and digital education. These activities encourage interdisciplinary perspectives and create opportunities for engagement among scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and partners.
Situated within OUM, the Centre contributes to the University’s broader mission of expanding access to quality education through open and flexible learning, while also engaging regional and international networks concerned with the future of digital education.
Leadership
Dr David CL Lim is Founding Director of the Centre for Digital Education Futures (CENDEF) at Open University Malaysia (OUM), where he leads initiatives that explore emerging developments and future directions in open, distance, and digital education (ODDE). His work focuses on critical engagement with the sociotechnical transformations shaping digital education, including the ways in which technologies, institutions, and learning practices interact and evolve.
He is also Editor of inspired, OUM’s popular journal dedicated to the practice, policy, and philosophy of ODDE. In addition, he serves on the Board of Chief Editors of the Journal of Open, Distance, and Digital Education (JODDE) and is a member of the Centre for Open Education Research (COER) at the University of Oldenburg, contributing to international conversations on research and practice in digital education.