Universitas Terbuka Indonesia Open Policy 315educational media enable the need to reach student living in very remote
area.
In the 32 years of serving the nation UT has transformed itself into
the only higher education in Indonesia promoting flexible and inclusive
higher education by adopting open policy (UT, 2012). The open policy
consists of three major principles of open enrolment, open admission
and open content (licensing). The open enrolment ensures the flexibility
of students to enrol in the program on their needs that is open during the
year around. This in the future may adopts self-pace pedagogy to enable
student learning on their pace. Respectively the open admission allows
students admission without any restrictions of demographic variables,
geographic location and their primary identity. To promote equity, UT is
currently producing the audio digital learning materials to serve students
with visual impairment. Furthermore, as part of public higher education
institution’s obligation UT owned digital learning material in the format
of text, audio and video are now dedicated to public by adopting
Creative Common license. This open content or license is very
important to eradicate knowledge divide between Java island where the
major universities are located and out of Java Islands where a shortage
of quality educational resources.
By adopting open policy, UT is best fit to serve the Indonesia with
the world‘s largest archipelago with over 17,000 islands and over 80%
of nation comprised of water. With the large and heterogeneous
demographic condition of over 245 million people in 2014, and
consisting of various ethnic and regional cultures with over 1,000 local
languages and dialects spoken among different ethnic groups, UT may
serve politically as a tool to promote Indonesia’s unity and prosperity
(UT, 2015). Considering these conditions UT has been designed to be
both flexible and inexpensive, by focusing on serving potential students
who, due to various constraints, including lack of funding, living in