Upgrading Skills of Health Workers in the Digital Era: The Experience of Universitas Terbuka-Indonesia

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10.2991/assehr.k.200331.152How to use a DOI?

Keywords

distance learning, online learning, vocational education, skills upgrading

Abstract

This article describes the experience of the Open University in developing a distance education program for a diploma (D-III) in Medical Records and Health Information Management (MRHIM = Rekam Medik dan Informasi Kesehatan = RMIK) A new rule in Indonesia stated that health personnel must be upgraded from D1 to D3 according to their competence levels. Since the potential participants in this program are generally already working, with a very large number of them requiring additional vocational training, then it was decided to select the mode of distance education. The development of information and communication technology has proven useful to higher education institutions in facilitating the distance learning process. The challenge faced by distance education providers is to design and develop distance vocational higher education programs, especially in the curriculum, learning process, and education management. Indonesia’s Open University (Universitas Terbuka (UT)) as a distance education provider institution since 1985, has implemented a distance learning system and provides an enormous opportunity for prospective students who want to learn while working without any restrictions on age, years of diploma, study period, registration time, or frequency of taking the exam. The only stipulation is that every UT student must have completed senior secondary education (SMA or equivalent) (Universitas Terbuka, 2015). This paper attempts to present an overview of the process of developing distance vocational higher education to answer the needs of the number of qualified medical records personnel in Indonesia, based on the rules stipulated by the Directorate General of the Ministry of Research and Technology (Kemenristekdikti). Development activities begin with needs analysis, deciding the learning outcomes or the competencies and curriculum development, learning or instructional infrastructures, partner identification for tutorials, practical work, clinical practice and fieldwork practice, and efforts to collaborate with various parties to facilitate the implementation of the learning process.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Mutimanda Dwisatyadini
AU  - Heny Kurniawati
AU  - Dina Mustafa
AU  - Sri Utami
AU  - Fawzi Rahmadiyan Zuhairi
AU  - Deddy Ahmad Suhardi
AU  - Ariyanti Hartari
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/04/03
TI  - Upgrading Skills of Health Workers in the Digital Era: The Experience of Universitas Terbuka-Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Vocational Higher Education (ICVHE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 273
EP  - 277
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200331.152
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200331.152
ID  - Dwisatyadini2020
ER  -