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cater for students who could not gain entry into government funded schools.
1971 - Distance learning in the Malaysian public universities was first initiated
by University Science Malaysia (USM) in the form of correspondence courses
and offered.
1991 - a total of 125 courses including Foundation Science are available to the
Off-Campus students throughout the country.
Some universities started their distance learning programs by extending the on-
campus programs
Except for UNITAR which created its programs purely for the distance or virtual
learning mode.
1995 -All of Malaysia 11 public universities except USM and UiTM, first began
offering ODE programmmes to a directive from the Ministry of Education to
increase access to higher education through distance learning.
2001 - UNITEM (known as OUM now)was registered in May. Its first intake of
students was in August.