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02 Open ESTABLISHMENT

University In Malaysia distance education started at the
Centre of Distance Education known as Pusat
Pendidikan Jarak Jauh (PJJ) at the Science
Malaysia: University of Malaysia (Universiti Sains
Sustainable Malaysia (USM)) in the 1970s. Today, almost
all public universities have a dedicated centre
Quality Digital that promotes distance education. Over
30 years later, Open University Malaysia
Education for (OUM) was established on 10 August 2000
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All as the country’s 7 private university. In
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August 2001, OUM offered 4 programmes
and enrolled 731 learners for its inaugural
intake. OUM was officially launched on 26
August 2002 by the then Prime Minister of
Malaysia, Yang Amat Berhormat Dato’ Seri
Ahmad Izanee Awang, Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The university was
Mohd Tajudin Md Ninggal, and established as part of the strategies to build
Thirumeni T Subramaniam knowledge-based society, with the motto
of “University for All”. Today OUM is joined
Open University Malaysia by two other private open and distance
learning (ODL) universities: Wawasan Open
University (WOU) established in 2006,
and Asia e-University (AeU) which was
established in the subsequent year. Others