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Future Challenges
Universitas Terbuka to be a
Center of Excellence of
Distance Higher Education
Institution in 2020
AMINUDIN ZUHAIRI
Introduction
This paper is to discuss the efforts to realize the vision of Universitas
Terbuka (UT) of becoming a center of excellence in distance higher education in
the world in 2020. It begins with the explanation of the significance of becoming
a world's leading distance higher education institution (PT JJ), as well as reasons
and ways to become one . It will then go on to discuss the existing external
conditions, both globally and nationally, that should be prepared to pave the way
for a world-class PTJJ. Current and future trends of distance higher education
will be explored in order to provide the context, scope, rational considerations for
the efforts to realize UT's vision of becoming one of the world's leading distance
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