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HIGHLIGHT OF THE CHAPTERS ODL institutions in Malaysia aims to provide
sustainable quality digital education that
Korea - KNOU meets the national and global market needs.
Korea National Open University has been Under the new strategic planning, OUM
serving as the dedicated DE university in has created plan focusing on four areas:
Korea for over 50 years and have gone (1) growth, (2) sustainability, (3) visibility,
through several changes but continuously and (4) harmony. At present, OUM offers
growing. Since 2000, KNOU has pursued a total of 53 fully accredited programmes
educational reform based on openness, and 2 partial accredited programmes. There
diversity, flexibility, and excellence. By giving are eight (8) programmes at doctoral level,
everyone access to possibilities for higher 21 programmes at master degree level,
education in new knowledge and technology, 1 post-graduate diploma programme, 17
KNOU’s educational mission is to cultivate bachelor degree programmes and only 6
talent that can adapt to a rapidly changing diploma programmes. In order to remain
information-oriented society. KNOU students in the frontier of global open education,
can attend online lectures through cable TV, the university collaborates and engages in
the Internet, mobile devices, and offline collaborative research with other ODL players.
classes based on study guides and course Emphasis in research is also motivated by
materials. The four categories that make the need change and to exist in the frontier
up KNOU’s online content are TV lectures, of open education and in the selected niche
multimedia lectures, web-based tutorials, areas amidst global challenges. As other
and audio lectures. As parts of government- DE and ODL institution, OUM is also going
initiated Korean MOOCS (K-MOOC), KNOU through a digital transformation which is
is supporting the idea of free public online supported by the Strategic Roadmap that is
education. KNOU also offers scholarships to a developed to bring the university to greater
range of social groups and individuals to help heights and recognition within the next five
them achieve their educational goals. years. In addition, OUM has plans to actively
engage in social innovations and contribute
Malaysia - OUM to efforts for creating equal opportunities
In Malaysia, DE started at the Centre through education and particularly equity in
of Distance Education known as Pusat education.
Pendidikan Jarak Jauh (PJJ) at the Science
University of Malaysia (Universiti Sains
Malaysia (USM)) in the 1970s. Over 30
years later, Open University Malaysia (OUM)
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was established on 10 August 2000 as the
country’s 7 private university. Although
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today, almost all the public universities
have a dedicated centre that promotes
distance education, OUM as the pioneer

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