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Good Practices from AAOU Members

MOOCs AND OTHER OPEN EDUCATION regard to the notion of openness in education
PRACTICES is related to the ‘sharing paradigm’, which
Since its establishment in 1984, UT has has resulted in two globally accepted and
continuously embodied the spirits of adopted educational models: OERs dan
“education for all” and “lifelong education”, MOOCs. As mentioned previously, in order
which are the philosophical foundation as provide the nation-wide community services
well as the Indonesian government’s mandate through online platform, UT develops and
for UT. Furthermore, the development of offers OERs and MOOCs since 2014 (Belawati
technology and the change of educational & Bandalaria, 2018). In 2020, UT offers 23
paradigms have spawned various models MOOCs which can be accessed at http://
of innovations in education. The definition moocs.ut.ac.id and hundreds of OERs in
of ‘open’ in open education itself has various media formats (Figure 4). Starting
changed and nowadays is understood as also from 2021, there have been some additional
containing the concept of open access (read: MOOCs, and in the future, it is planned all
free). The most phenomenal movement with MOOCs are designed in the credit earning
scheme.

Figure 4
The Profile of UT’s MOOCs

Source: http://moocs.ut.ac.id/course/index.php?categoryid=2

UT offers two categories of MOOCs, i.e. community service MOOCs and course affiliated
MOOCs . The first category refers to MOOCs which subjects are not directely related to UT’s
course. Certificates earned upon completion of this MOOCs category cannot be used to get
credit earning at UT. The course affiliated MOOCs on the otherh hand were designed based on
existing UT courses and therefore can be used for credit earning at UT through the mechanism
of ‘Recognition of Prior Learning’ or RPL since 2020.

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