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The Open University of Japan (OUJ) was founded in 1983 under the joint auspices of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. It is an entity with special legal personality status headquartered in Chiba-ken.
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Headquartered in Islamabad, the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) is the largest public open university in Pakistan. The AIOU was established in May 1974 under Act No. XXXIX passed by the Parliament of Pakistan. It was initially named as the People’s Open University, renamed as Allama Iqbal Open University in 1977 at the eve of the first centenary of the national poet and philosopher, Allama Muhammad Iqbal.
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Korea National Open University (KNOU) was founded in 1972 with its headquarters on University Road, Seoul. KNOU has developed from its initial status as a two-year tertiary education institution to a state-run distance education university focusing on four-year undergraduate education.
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The TRAMPIL Foundation is an organisation committed to using distance education technology to give students in remote regions of Indonesia the chance to receive quality education. The foundation works with schools and institutions to build education systems based on online learning so that people in remote areas can also access quality education.
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Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (STOU),founded in 1978, is the eleventh national university in Thailand and the first university that specialising in distance higher education in Thailand and Southeast Asia. At present, STOU has an estimated 100,000 active students, and offers degree programmes at the bachelor’s, master's and doctoral levels, as well as non-degree programmes.