In Open Learning, we will see more and more innovations and openness in education in the coming years. Institutions of higher learning like UCSI is beginning to bridge the gaps between industries and academia by focusing on new and flexible ways to allow adults learner to enter and exit education programs at their own pace and place of study. This flexibilities must be extended to method of study, choice and combination of courses and assessment.
The industries learners are usually equipped with lots of experience and skills and hence they are looking for greater openness in education. Therefore the Open learning must look into the education inequality and to offer opportunities and access to education which is currently missing from institutions of higher learning.
AT UCSI, we are sincerely looking at this as a form of social responsibility to the industries.