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18.6 Conclusion
Major roles of Open University to address access, equity and quality
have still encountered a gap between the “is” and the “ought”. Open
university, in which its major mission is to promote inclusive higher
education, faces great challenges due to the perceived quality as a
second-class university and lack of self-independent learning culture.
However in line with increasing awareness of the Open Education
system and the rapid changes of the Information and Communication
technology, the UT’s Open Policy may have contributed to reduce this
gap and enabled to promote equal access to higher education and to
decrease knowledge divide in Indonesia. Furthermore the fast growing
ICT infrastructures require progressive open higher education to
response the fast changing higher education landscape in the future. The
adoption of Open Policy need to be guaranteed to ensure the university
governance addressing ethical issues of access, equity and quality as part
of the inclusive higher education policy.
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