Universitas Terbuka amongst the National Framework for Teachers’ Professional Development Program Presented in the International Conference on Teacher Education
Efforts to increase teacher professionalism has been obliged by Law of Teacher No. 14/2005 signifying necessities in continuous supports and strong commitment from all parties and communities. In addition to national routine programs, the Government has made several efforts to improve quality of education, including allocating foreign loan programs and coordinating international partnerships. In the meantime, Universitas Terbuka (UT) has long been committed to strengthening teacher competence and qualification through distance and online programs. As a nation-wide university, UT implements its programs through 38 Regional Offices(RO) and one RO to serving students domicile abroad. Since 1984, UT has promoted 1,315,009 professional teachers, serving over 45% of the total number of teachers in Indonesia. To corroborate with current
governmental educational policy, UT was challenged to assure its programs to be aligned with current issues of national quality development. Likewise, UT promotes efficiency in leading educational quality development through open and online teacher training programs. These programs foster teachers’ continuous professional development and expertise. Partnership and collaboration with other education-related institutions constitute
apparently the key issues to succeed the programs. To conclude, it is obvious that all the programs are dully
dedicated to strengthen the professionalism of teachers to be capable of meeting the national goals for nation and
character building and development
