MIT
LINC
2010
Using appropriate new technolgies to
enhance distance students’ learning
at Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia
Aminudin Zuhairi & Rahmat Budiman
Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia
May 2010
OUTLINE
• Country and institutional context
• Use of new technologies at
Universitas Terbuka (UT),
Indonesia
• Distance students’
characteristics
• Prospects and future challanges
• Conclusion
INDONESIA
• The largest archipelago and fourth
largest nation in the world
• Over 224 million people living in about
4,000 of total 17,000 islands
• Located along the equatorial line in
South-East Asia
• Ranks 111th or medium in the 2009
human development index
• GDP per capita of US$ 3,712 (PPP), and
an education index of 0.84.
INDONESIA
3,500 miles (1,919,440 Km2) – 17,000 islands
Population > 224 millions
GDP per capita US$ 1,140 (PPP US$ 3,712)
Higher education in Indonesia
• State and private institutions
• 82 state institutions and one state open university, i.e.,
Universitas Terbuka (UT).
• 2,545 private institutions
• Accommodates more than 4.5 million students
• 1.67 million students in state system
• 2.27 million students in private system
• 0.6 million students in state institutions operated by
the government outside the Ministry of National
Education
• Participation rate about 15 per cent
• Failed legal reform for change to become autonomous
institutions as separate legal entities
Universitas Terbuka #1
• Cater for the nation’s needs for quality ODL
• Established on the 4th of September 1984
as the 45th state university in Indonesia
• A single-mode distance teaching university
with main missions
• To upgrade the qualifications of inservice teachers
• To provide improved access to quality
higher education to working adults and
recent high school graduates
Universitas Terbuka #2
• A mega-university with over 640,000 students
and over 750,000 alumni
• 4 Faculties
• Teacher Training and Educational Sciences
• Mathematics and Natural Sciences
• Social and Political Sciences
• Economics
• The Graduate School offering Masters in
Management, Public Administration, and
Fishery Management
• Head Office and 37 Regional Offices
Use of new technology at UT#1
• Continuous improvement in academic
quality and relevance, access to services,
and internal management
• Improved learning support services through
• Access points to services
• Quality of service
• Network of partnership
• Image building
• Quality assurance
Use of new technology at UT#2
• Access to a variety of learning support
• Develop students’ independent learning
through self-direction using a variety of
methods and appropriate technologies
• Capacity building of students, study groups,
provision of various kinds of learning
support, and use of new technologies
• Access to services by students through the
use of new technologies
• Educating distance learners on the use of
new technologies
Use of new technology at UT#3
• UT at the forefront of innovation in the use
of internet-based teaching and learning
• Enhancing use of internet for teaching and
learning at a distance
• Increasing trend of using online learning by
students
• Improved online services for tutorials, webbased supplementary materials, selfexercise, examination results
dissemination, online counseling,
information dissemination, online
examination, administrative services
IT in ODL
Model
Model of ODL in Relations to Technology Use
Multi Media
Audio Cassette
• Video Cassette
• Computer-based learning (e.g.
CML/CAL)
• Interactive Video (disk and
cassettes)
•
Tele-learning
Audio conference
• Video conference
• Audio Graphics
• TV/Radio Broadcasts and Audio
conference
•
Characteristics of Technology
UT Website
UT Online Learning #1
UT Online Learning #2
UT Online Learning #3
UT-Online Learning #4
Log in
UT M-Learning
UT student characteristics
• Over 600,000 students (2009)
• Residing in different parts of the
country and overseas locations
• Over 95% working adults
• Over 1.5 million students enrolling
• Over 1 million alumni
Trends in student enrolment
1.200.000
1.031.152
1.000.000
800.000
600.000
388.727
400.000
200.000
301.917
255.549
80.800
0
1984 - 1988 1989 - 1993 1994 - 1998 1999 - 2003 2004 - 2009
Active and registered students
700.000
600.000
Non-Pendas;
85.983
Non-Pendas;
66.829
500.000
400.000
300.000
Pendas; 536.974
Pendas; 411.160
200.000
100.000
0
Active
Registered
Technology for student’s learning
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Multimedia learning packages
Broadcast programs
Online tutorials
Web-based supplements
Online examination
Other online Open Educational Resources
(OER)
Open Educational Resource (OER)
• Portal Guru Pintar Online (Online Smart
Teacher Portal): http://gurupintar.ut.ac.id/
• Portal E-Humaniora (E-Humanities Portal):
http://e-humaniora.ut.ac.id/
Online programs to widen access#1
• Master of Management (MM) online
• Overcoming barriers of attendance in
face-to-face tutorials
• Students living in remote areas, or
working overseas
• Online academic services: independent
learning by self-study, online tutorials,
online communication (blogs,
synchronous communication, and video
conference)
• Online assessment
Online programs to widen access#2
• Bahasa Indonesia for Penutur Asing or Nonnative Speakers (BIPA) online
• Delivered through the E-learning platform
including multimedia learning materials,
assignments and learning activities
• Stimulate language competence in
listening, reading, writing, and speaking
• Competencies expected
• Communicating in Bahasa Indonesia
• Using Bahasa Indonesia in formal
communications and (for academic
purposes
Prospects and future #1
• Challenge for UT is to provide quality university
distance education accessible to students
• Maintain access to learning resources through
ICT
• Inccrease ICT literacy
• UT Online
• Introducing web-based academic and
administrative services
• Training in online learning services
• Enhancing uses of ICT
• Educating students and society to use new
technology for lifelong learning
Prospects and future #2
• Continuous improvement of online
programs and services
• Launching mobile learning services
and customer relationship
management (CRM)
• Upgrading of ICT infrastructure and
facilities
• Capacity building of staff
Prospects and future #3
• New technologies to enhance lerning, teaching
and management
• Virtual laboratory for science courses
• Online examination system and online
registration
• Academic programs: digitising learning
materials accessible by students online; use of
Open Educational Resources (OER); issues on
copyright, access rights, and cost impacts of
opening up access to digital learning materials;
continuing education programs; graduate
programs
Prospects and future #4
Examination system
• Quality and secure examination flexible for
students
• Modernisation in preparation and production of
examination papers through digital printing
• Database of cases for examination results to
respond to students’ queries satisfactorily
• Management information system for examination
papers: information database of test items, life
cycle, usage, writers, etc
Prospects and future #5
IT uses
• Improving teaching and learning and supporting
management
• Use of IT-based database and networking
• Data maintenance and enhancement of IT service
effectiveness
• IT Help Desk services
• Electronic billing system for payment of fees
• Use of IP-telephone using VPN (Virtual Private Network)
• Use of IVR (Interactive Voice Response)
• Enhanced LAN capacity to control transactions and
networking
• Online registration
Conclusion
• Limited ICT infrastructure within easy access by
students
• Increasing trends in uses of new technologies in
ODL
• Uses of technology to enhance ODL
• Continuous innovation and improvement of
learning and teaching with newer technologies
• Investment in new technologies
• Development of human resource capacity
• Anticipate advances in new technologies
• Wise use of appropriate new technologies
MIT
LINC
2010
Thank you.
Terima kasih.
aminz@mail.ut.ac.id, aminudin.zuhairi@gmail.com