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Good Practices from AAOU Members

Our Focus concept of opening educational access to all.
Since the first inception of OUM 22 years ago, Education and knowledge are public goods
the university has continuously providing and that everyone has the right to access
quality online education to its students. quality education (Belawati, 2014). OUM’s
OUM’s visibility as an ODL provider of choice open education philosophy also embodies
known for sustainable business model in Malaysia’s National Education Philosophy
delivering world class quality digital education that focuses on on-going efforts towards the
solutions and social innovations. This is an development of an individual in a holistic
aspiration drives on what we would focus on way (MOE, 2013). In addition, OUM is also
in the coming years. drafting a new open education philosophy by
encapsulating its vision to offer flexibility for
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AT OPEN its learners who are by large working adults; its
UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA mission to widen access to quality education
Digital transformation at OUM supporting by creating a conducive and engaging learning
the Strategic Roadmap that is developed to environment through digital transformation;
bring the university to greater heights and as well as key global concepts that it believes
recognition within the next 5 years (refer in, namely sustainability, and inclusivity. As
Figure 4). The open education philosophy part of its new focus, OUM is developing a
embodied at the university is built on research programme to raise the level of key
the hope to capture the open education literacies among the public.

Open University Malaysia (OUM)