Universitas Terbuka Indonesia Open Policy 323learner to locate the best available educational resources and been
adopted into various learning activities (Daryono and Tian Belawati,
2010). The flexibility and openness of OER are among the preferred
features to enable user to adjust it in any learning situation and to
support UT’s open policy.
Having been a success of the OER’s adoption, UT launched massive
open online course as UT’s community services in 2014. These courses
are designed as OER based courses to serve community who is willing
to upgrade their knowledge and understanding. As part of the UT’s
mission to populate the open online course, this program aims at
providing quality online learning experience to the community at large.
The learner’s participation is steadily increasing but it requires more
promotion and advocacy as the MOOCs has not yet been popular to the
general people. The UT’s MOOCs participation is presented in the
following figure.
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UT's MOOCs Participants2014 2015.1 2015.2 2016.1 Total