Free Courses Leading to Certificate or Award
The university has supported the implementation of free courses through the Massive Open Online Program (MOOC). MOOC is a platform accessible to people who are not studying at the university. Many classes are divided into categories such as business, health, politics, digital transformation, etc. This implementation supported Universitas Gadjah Mada’s Strategic Plan 2022-2027 and the government rules in Permendikbud Ristek No.52 from 2023 about Quality Assurance in Higher Education.
Sources: https://elok.ugm.ac.id/
MOOC is implemented in eLOK (e-Learning Open for Knowledge Sharing) UGM. The university offers specific courses that can be taught by all students in Indonesia. Some faculty members, such as FK-KMK and FISIPOL, contribute to the online learning system. FK-KMK contributes to eLOK by arranging internal and external learning about the quality of Biospecimen through modules and videos.
Sources: Website FK-KMK
FISIPOL UGM built their own facilities to support free access to educational resources. The Digital Intelligence Class is accessible in public with Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the main focus. It also supported the government programme due to Merdeka Belajar . There are three level stages to learning about AI: the introductory class, continuous learning, and transformation. These levels helped the students to understand the materials faster. FISIPOL UGM Online Campus (FOCUS) is one of the online learning systems available to students and the public at UGM.
Another campus program focused on educational resources is offered at the Gelanggang Inovasi & Kreativitas (GIK), which centres on Talent Development and offers significant opportunities for students to enhance both their soft and hard skills.
Besides the online learning system, the University has facilitated business management training in order to strengthen the nation’s food sovereignty. The program is a collaboration between the Faculty of Animal Science UGM, the Indonesia Australia Red Meat and Cattle Partnership, and also the Faculty of Animal Science University of Hasanuddin, Makassar. More than 101 farmers applied for the program, and 30 were selected to join the training. Two parts of the training were facilitated in small-scale commercial cattle farming in Makassar with Universitas Hasanuddin and continued with a training session at Agrotechnology Innovation Center (PIAT) UGM called the “Pendamping Pemulia” training. It shows that universities can lead academics, practitioners, and institutions to develop certain programmes.
Free access to UGM Library
The library has open access, and there is a collection guide in the library ranging from textbooks, references, periodicals, final works, theses, dissertations, scientific works, and so on. The integrated catalogue can be accessed in Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC), the final works in the repository, the open journal system for public, e-book, and e-resources for supporting the data. Users’ profiles can be identified in the Portal SNI Corner to find the SNI resources.
Sources: Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)
Sources: Open Access Online Resources
Sources: Jurnal Universitas Gadjah Mada
The university also has Koleksi Langka, a rare collection of universities, which is an online repository managed by the library and contains digitised results of the available collections.
Sources: Koleksi Langka
Tourism Study Center Library Services in UGM is open to the public. Puspar’s library is recognised by many parties as an important place for the process of enriching and strengthening the capacity of institutional members and people from outside the institution who want to study tourism issues. To support various research activities, workshops, and training, the library has an important role in preparing relevant literature for each activity.
Free Access to UGM Laboratory
To produce quality research at UGM, the university facilitates research tools which are listed on the UGM Main Library websites so students, staff, and faculty can easily access these tools.
The university also provides training at the Fabrication Laboratory Yogyakarta on fabrication and material processing using a Laser Cutting machine.
The Agrotechnology Innovation Center UGM actively facilitates visits, internships, and research collaborations with various institutions. This engagement aligns with PIAT’s mission to serve as an integrated academic service centre in agrotechnology, fostering innovation and practical applications in the agricultural sector. Information related to research and internships is available on the website (Internships at PIAT). Among the facilities at the center is the Gene Bank, which is a collaboration between UGM and PT East West Seed Indonesia to conserve the diversity of Indonesian vegetable genes. It was established in 2018 as the tropical vegetable research and development center.
LPPT UGM
Integrated Research and Testing Laboratory (LPPT) UGM provides various trainings that are free of charge or funded as a form of grant from other institutions. LPPT UGM received an award from the Indonesian Minister of Health for the best laboratory category in genetic surveillance testing. LPPT collaborates with a team from FKKMK UGM to analyse samples either by using PCR or genomically with Next Generation Sequencing (NGS).
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Free courses leading to certificate or award:
- MOOC
- Strategic Plan 2022-2027
- Quality Assurance in Higher Education
- e-LOK UGM
- Biobank FKKMK
- Artificial Intelligence
- Merdeka Belajar
- FOCUS UGM
- Talent Development
- Commercial cattle farming in Makassar
Free access to UGM Library: