316 Ethics in Higher Education: Values-driven Leaders for the Future
isolated and rural areas and working, lack the opportunity to attend the
face-to-face mode of higher education.
In 2014, over 400,000 students, residing in different parts of the
country and some living overseas, enrolled in UT. Over 95% of these
students are working adults. UT has major roles to play in developing
quality human resources needed for the nation‘s sustainable
development. Since its establishment, UT has enrolled over 1.5 million
students and has produced over 1 million alumni, working in various
professional fields. As an open and distance teaching university, UT
depends on the advancement of Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) (UT, 2015). Since each establishment, UT has use
ICT to provide Internet based information services for general academic
and administrative information services. UT‘s innovation in the use of
internet-based teaching and learning can be seen as a pioneering
initiative in the Indonesian higher education system. UT has
implemented and continually improved its online services, including
those designed for tutorials, web-based supplementary materials, self-
assessment, examination results dissemination, online counselling,
information dissemination, and online examination. Other online
services are being developed to improve teaching and learning as well as
administrative services for students. However UT’s conventional
delivery system through printed learning materials is also preserved to
serve students’ preference and those who live in very remote area of
Indonesia where the ICT infrastructures have not yet been certain.
UT students cover various demographic and geographic conditions
that ensure the inclusivity of services. Among major islands in
Indonesia, students resided in Java Island are still predominant. This is
due to the fact that Java Island contributes to about 65% of Indonesia
population. However UT student located in other islands are comparable
in term of the proportion of the population. It currently becomes
important when UT enables to serve the Indonesia’s workers, majority