Priorities:Universitas Terbuka Student Priorities

Universitas Terbuka Student Priorities

Fall 2021 Strategies

Logo of Universitas Terbuka and UIF

Universitas Terbuka (UT) is the 45th State University in Indonesia that implements an open and distance learning system to all Indonesian citizens including those who lives in remote island through out the country as well as the various part of the world. It has more than 350.000 students. UT was inaugurated on September 4, 1984, based on the Decree of the President of the Republic of Indonesia Number 41 of 1984. UT has 4 Faculties, namely Faculty of Economics (FE), Faculty of Law, Social and Political Sciences (FHISIP), Faculty of Science and Technology (FST), ang Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP) for Diploma and Bachelor levels. Since 2004, UT has opened a Masters level in the Postgraduate Program and since 2019, UT has opened a Doctoral program. According to a distance education institution in United Kingdom, Universitas Terbuka including the top 10 mega university and has the 3rd rank after the similar university in China and Turkey. Universitas Terbuka is focusing on educating people who for various reasons including lack of funding, rural isolation and full-time employment who do not have time and opportunity to attend face to face higher education. Universitas Terbuka has also been awarded by ICDE (International Council of Distance Education), ISA (International Standard Agency), ISO, and accredited by the national higher standard (BAN-PT).

Strategy 1 : stUTer

Why stUTer?

As it is known that Universitas Terbuka is different from other universities. Universitas Terbuka aim to provide education for all so that they must cover a wide area even in remote areas. Therefore, UT has branch offices spread throughout Indonesia and even abroad called UPBJJ ( Distance learning program unit). With a large number of students and the online base used, many students lack information about branch offices, study groups, and even platforms to consult about assignments or other challenges. Therefore, we have the idea to create a community platform for all students that has a function as a cross-departmental community platform from various existing UPBJJs (Distance learning program units).

It should also be noted that UT is a high school based on online learning. almost all learning and teaching activities are made through the learning platform created by UT and equipped with teaching materials in the form of BMP which can also be accessed online. Teaching and learning activities at UT for one semester only take 3 months. In one semester there are 8-week sessions in which there are 8 discussion sessions and 3 assignments. To facilitate students in doing discussions and assignments. we have a solution to add a notification feature for discussion and task deadline reminders.

In various lecture sessions, there are also several things that become obstacles for students to understand and practice the subjects they read or study because there are times when discussion topics or assignments are difficult for students to understand so that students do not work on them optimally. Therefore, we have come up with a solution in the form of a tutor corner where students can access information about tutors so they can contact tutors quickly.

PLAN OF ACTIONS

We will collaborate with the various departments related to the development of this platform such as administration, student affairs, deans of each faculty.
We will collaborate with the UT IT team to add a deadline notification feature
We will collaborate with the IT team and website developers to add various information and form a community on the UT website
We will collaborate with students regarding student data to be reached

IMPACT

This platform will provide various information about UT or UPBJJ branch offices throughout the region, as well as create an orderly learning environment through the community and the addition of a discussion and task deadline notification feature. so that students can follow the course well.

Strategy 2 : MAPRES 101

Why MAPRES 101 ?

As one of the universities with the most students spread all around Indonesia, Universitas Terbuka has a better potential to maximize the ability and the talent of its students by joining competitions. On the other side, having this advantage can't guarantee all the students to improve themselves. Two main problems are found. Firstly students are difficult to find other students who have the same interests because UT does not have platforms to facilitate and this leads to the next problem which is students lack of motivation to join competition. MAPRES 101 is a new platform that we offer to overcome those two problems. Basically, MAPRES 101 is a website that facilitate students to connect to each other and to find outstanding people who they can look up to or they can get inspired by.

PLAN OF ACTIONS

We will collaborate with all faculties at Universitas Terbuka and the IT teams
We will make a website of MAPRES 101
We will ask for all outstanding students' data that we can put in the website
We will ask outstanding students' to make videos that can inspire other student
We will provide a chat or a direct message and group platform in the website for students to connect to each other
We will ask instructors or lecturer guide to make videos to give advise or encourage students or other lecturers

IMPACT

This platform will connect students to other students with the same interests which can inspire and motivate students to be more active in improving their talents. The ultimate goal of this platform is to increase the number of outstanding students in our campus so that they will graduate with both hard skills and soft skills.

Strategy 3 : UT 911

Why UT 911 ?

As one of the universities with the most students spread all around Indonesia, Universitas Terbuka has a better potential to maximize the ability and the talent of its students by joining competitions. On the other side, having this advantage can't guarantee all the students to improve themselves. Two main problems are found. Firstly students are difficult to find other students who have the same interests because UT does not have platforms to facilitate and this leads to the next problem which is students lack of motivation to join competition. UT 911 is a new platform that we offer to overcome those two problems. Basically, UT 911 is a website that facilitate students to connect to each other and to find competitions or international events thus they can join in or easily find a collaborate team member.

PLAN OF ACTIONS

We will collaborate with all faculties at Universitas Terbuka and the IT teams
We will make a page in a website to emphasize UT 911
We will search for competitions or international events or anything related and put in the page of a students' website.
We will collaborate with Mapres 101 to seek the outstanding students' to guide students who want join competitions or another programs example scholarship, fellowship, internship, international summit, etc.
We will provide a chat comment in every events that we put on website.
We will ask instructors or lecturer guide to make videos to give advise or encourage students or other lecturers

IMPACT

This platform will connect students to other students with the same interests to collaborate and guide them to join competitions or events to be more active and that can increase the number of outstanding students which can be put in Mapres 101.

Strategy 4 : Hai Maba

Why Hai Maba ?

As a university that has the most alumni and graduates in Indonesia, new students generally do not get comprehensive information about the online learning system and all the resources owned by Universitas Terbuka. Therefore, Hai Maba exist to bring guidance in the early days of freshmans (when they first got to college) and has a series of Set Induction programs which aim to improve the quality of online learning, such as giving session about Design Thinking during OSMB/PKBJJ in Universitas Terbuka.

PLAN OF ACTIONS

Provide information about history, vision & mission, goals of the establishment, and etc of Universitas Terbuka
Explain the meaning of acronimcs in Universitas Terbuka (sipas/non-sipas, tuton/tmk, semester, etc.)
Providing direct linking (with explanation) of all of the resources and website of Universitas Terbuka, which along with what IDs & passwords that needed when accessing will be explained (sia.ut, e-learning, digital libraries, etc.)