Singaraja– Ganesha University of Education (Undiksha) is boosting the application of online learning. This received support from the Engineering and Vocational Faculty (FTK). Strengthening information technology-based learning, a workshop was held at the Banyualit Hotel, Lovina Singaraja, Tuesday (11/19/2019).
This activity involved all FTK lecturers, reaching 62 people. Dean of FTK, Dr. I Gede Sudirtha, S.Pd., M.Pd., explained that the application of learning can be carried out optimally in this 17-year-old faculty because its human resources are very attached to technology. “What is being done is not intended to replace face-to-face learning that has been running so far,” he said.
He emphasized that this breakthrough still boils down to improving the quality of learning to prepare students as digital natives to have the competencies needed in the future. Admittedly, if learning goes on, of course, it still needs to be evaluated until it finally fulfills the demands of the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education regulation Number 51 of 2018. In this regulation, there are three online learning modules that can be carried out, namely single module, dual mode, and consortium mode which can be followed online. wider than some universities.
This workshop presented a guest speaker, Dr. Gde Wawan Sudatha, S.Pd., S.T., M.Pd., who is the Head of the Undiksha Online Learning Center. This academic in the Educational Technology Study Program said that creating online learning can be done through synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences in direct settings, virtual settings, independent settings, and collaborative settings. As a guarantee of the quality of online learning, it is further explained that e-learning is carried out using the PEDATI flow (learn, learn, apply, evaluate).
Head of the Undiksha Learning Development and Quality Assurance Institute (LPPPM), Prof. Dr.AAIN Marhaeni, M.A., who was also a guest speaker, explained that learning innovation really needed to be done. The application of the system in the network is one of them. This is one of the strategies to accelerate access to information, especially in the 21st-century learning era which demands a critical, creative, collaborative, and communicative attitude. “Of course, this learning is a form of preparation to face the future era,” she concluded(rls)
