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08 Universitas ESTABLISHMENT

Terbuka: The earliest distance education in Indonesia
began in the 1950s and was known as
the Education Radio Program and the
Making correspondence training program for
Higher teachers seeking the required teaching
degree (Belawati and Bandalaria, 2018).
Education Over 30 years later, Universitas Terbuka
(UT) was founded in 1984 and replaced
Open to All the correspondence course type. For

over 20 years, UT was the only university
recognized by the government to provide
higher education through distance education
system. A higher Education Decree in 2001
marked the regulation change and allowed all
Rahmat Budiman, Durri Andriani, higher education institutions to also employ
Adhi Susilo, Lidwina Sri Ardiasih, distance learning systems. Nevertheless,
Made Yudhi Setiani, Mery Noviyanti,
Olivia Idrus, and Ernik Yuliana UT remained the only university operating
as a single-mode institution, taking full
Universitas Terbuka advantage of its open and distance education
(ODE) system. Among the other universities
that are offering significant e-learning as
parts of their teaching methodologies are
the University of Indonesia, Gajah Mada
University, and Bina Nusantara University