Indonesia Open University

Wabah global telah melanda dunia, begitu pula yg terjadi di Indonesia, sehingga program stay at home dilaksanakan sbg upaya menekan perluasan covid-19. Pada Universitas Terbuka, bulan Maret adalah awal semester tutorial masa registrasi 2020.1, baik tutorial online (tuton) maupun tutorial tatap muka (TTM). UT Semarang, sedang memasuki tutorial perdana pada mahasiswa yang mengambil modus pembelajaran TTM. Untuk menaati program pemerintah, modus pembelajaran dialihkan menjadi kelas virtual, agar mahasiswa tetap mendapatkan haknya memperoleh ilmu tetapi tetap aman dengan di rumah saja. Kelas TTM diganti menggunakan modus tuweb (tutorial webinar). Modus baru didapatkan mahasiswa sehingga mendorong penelitian ini dilakukan. Bagaimana kesiapan mahasiswa dengan pembaharuan modus belajar? Bagaimana penguasaan teknologi yang diperlukan mahasiswa dalam menyongsong pembelajarannya? Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode kuantitatif dengan kuesioner. Populasi diambil dari 100 mahasiswa UT Semarang, pokjar Kabupaten Batang dari berbagai semester. Hasil dari penelitian menunjukkan 82% mahasiswa mendukung dan semakin semangat dalam menyiapkan teknologi untuk modus baru pembelajaran menggunakan tuweb. Saran dan masukan mahasiswa juga menjadikan evaluasi dalam pelayanan lebih prima pada UT maupun dunia pendidikan pada keadaan global yang sedang terkena wabah ini.

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Critical thinking skills are one of the 21st century skills that are effectively trained by using the OR-IPA and Problem Based Learning (PBL) Model, therefore this research aims to compare the effectiveness of both. Research design used True Experiment with Randomized Subject Control-group Pre-test and Post-test with 94 pre-service physics teachers. Data collected using the critical thinking skills test and the student response sheet, and then analyzed using t-test and N-gain. The results showed: (1) the teaching instruments of OR-IPA and PBL Model have fulfilled the validity requirements (rα ~ .26) and reliability (α = .96 - .99). (2) Each of OR-IPA, PBL, and Conventional Model can significantly increase critical thinking skills at α = 5%, respectively with average N-gain: medium (.60), medium (.48), and low (.14); with the student response of: very positive, very positive, and less positive. (3) The OR-IPA and PBL Model are effective to improve critical thinking skills, while the Conventional Model is ineffective, and the OR-IPA Model is more effective compared to the PBL Model. Implication of this research is that the OR-IPA Model can be an innovative solution to improve critical thinking skills, but there is still a need for repetitive research like this. Keywords: basic physics, critical thinking skills, OR-IPA model, pre-service physics teachers, and PBL model.

This study aimed to investigate the lecturer' perspectives during COVID-19 pandemic in higher education. The participants have consisted of 8 from various universities in Indonesia. In this study, researchers chose narrative analysis as a research approach. A narrative analysis was used to explore lecturer perspectives or views on e-learning based on the practices, challenges, and prospects during COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the lecturers' perspective, the researchers concluded that online learning applications are beneficial for some lecturers to deliver lecture material without face to face, although there are some obstacles such as inadequate internet access. Some campuses provide self-developed applications to facilitate teaching lecturers and provide access to students to study lecture material. Some teachers also used online learning service provider applications or third parties such as Youtube, Zoom, Google Meet, Google Classroom and other online applications. Overall lecturers in universities can use existing learning applications. Efforts are needed to develop further, train, and improve infrastructure facilities to support online learning in the future. Online learning has high prospects and potential to be applied due to its extremely related to technological developments and ever-changing times wherever everything is quick and economical.

This study aimed to analyze student satisfaction and engagement effect in online learning which are influenced by student interaction. We use the concept of interaction which is divided into three types of interactions, namely student interactions with other students, student interactions with tutors/teachers, and student interactions with content. We conducted this research in an open and distance learning university in Indonesia. To answer the research goals, we applied a quantitative research approach utilizing structural equation modelling to verify our proposed hypotheses. To gain the data, we exploit an online survey through a questionnaire and the data were being collected randomly. The population of this study was all students in Faculty of Economics who registered in online learning at the first semester of 2018 that reach as many as 124,041 students. We attached the questionnaires in all online classes and 4,305 of them were completed and could be used for statistical analysis. We proposed four hypotheses and based on the result of structural modelling, we verified that all the hypotheses were supported. The statistical analysis has found that interaction among students, interaction between students and teacher, and interaction between students and content have positive impact on student engagement. The results also showed that student engagement has positive impact on student satisfaction. We discuss the practical implication and suggestion for future research in the results and discussion section.

Recently, technology has become an educational necessity in global-digital era. Facing these phenomena, social studies (SS) should make innovations related to changes of 21 st -century skills and learning paradigm, which is characterized by the principles of disclosure of information, computing, automation, and communication. Technology integration into SS learning is one of the learning innovations in the global-digital era, and powerfully supports the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) as stated in their visions: meaningful, powerful, value-based, challenging, and active. It also strongly supports the development of three core skills of the 21st-century, including learning and innovation skills; information, media and technology skills; life and career skills that developed in partnership with the Partnership Forum for 21st-Century Skills (P21). This paper examines and describes academics evolution toward a commitment and further developments in research; 21stcentury skills map for the SS; and the implications for developing teachers' competences and teachers' education curriculum.

Education system nowadays tends to utilize online learning, including in higher education. Online learning system becomes a major requirement in implementing learning process, including in Indonesia. Universitas Terbuka has implemented online learning system known as online tutorials to support the distance learning system. One interesting issue that needs to be explored is to analyze factors that can influence students’ satisfaction in online tutorials. This research aims to analyze factors that determine student satisfaction in online tutorials and what factors that need to be improved. Research procedure includes collecting data via email, validity test, reliability test, and hypothesis test using multiple linear regression. This paper will discuss the results of research procedures to find out what factors are affecting student satisfaction and some improvements required based on the viewpoint of the students.

The development of information and communication technology affects the learning methods and media used. Augmented Reality technology allows students to experience learning with objects that can be seen in person. The purpose of the study was to see how students learned when they used the metaverse app, which is mobile augmented reality software for science courses. The population group consists of 92 students from several schools in cluster I, Depok Subdistrict. Then the sample was taken using the slovin formula until it obtained 75 samples of grade 5 students. This study employs experimental research techniques and a single group pre- and post-test. A t-test is used to analysed the collected data. According to the findings, using that metaverse applications has a favourable impact on students' learning outcomes. Students can use the Metaverse app to see better learning outcomes. Students are also more interested in learning and can easily understand and discover what is being learned. In addition, students find it more fun to learn using the Metaverse app, which is a mobile augmented reality.

The aims of this research was determined from yield analysis on the leaves extract of Sansevieria trifasciata and Sansevieria cylindrica. It was also determined by the presence of bioactive compounds that have the potential as antioxidants (phytochemical screening) on the leaves extract of S. trifasciata and S. cylindrica.The method used was a stratified extraction method with three types of solvent, ie non-polar solvent in the form of N Hexan; A semi-polar solvent of Aceton; And a polar solvent of Ethanol. The identification of six types of phytochemical compounds, the triterpenoid and steroid compounds, saponins, phenols, flavonoids, quinones and alkaloids. The result of rendement analysis showed that S. trifasciata yield was higher than S. cylindrica. The yield of S. trifasciata was 7.89 % and S. cylindrica 6.79%. The result of phytochemical compound analysis obtained three phytochemical compounds contained in S. trifasciata, named triterpenoid group compounds and steroids and flavonoids. Meanwhile, the results of the analysis of phytochemical compounds contained in S. cylindrica also obtained three phytochemical compounds, namely triterpenoid compounds and steroidal groups and alkaloids.

This paper departs from anxiety about the spread of the Covid 19 virus in Indonesia which is increasing significantly. The government as the main actor in policy making is required to produce policies that are able to reduce and solve covid 19 problems in Indonesia, including the impacts. But the policy will have no meaning if it does not get a response from the recipient of the policy. Therefore this paper is intended to track how the public responds to the reasoning of state policies in dealing with the Covid 19 virus in Indonesia. Through the literature study method, this paper is presented based on the results of readings in journals, books, mass media news to obtain comprehensive results. The rational choice approach to policy making is used as a knife for analysis to sharpen arguments. The results of this paper conclude that the policies taken by the government show rational reasoning. This logical logic of health emergencies can be accepted rationally by the community. However, there was a different response by some people, especially the middle to lower classes. This is caused by social vulnerability caused by limited resources so that it is "forced" to break through the reasoning of the country's rationality in the policy of handling the co-epidemic pandemic19 in Indonesia. The key to its solution is the country's ability to guarantee the economic security of every family. So that the rationality of the state and society will be the same in the face of the Covid 19 pandemic

Riset terdahulu atau riset yang relevan sangat penting dalam suatu riset atau artikel ilmiah. Riset terdahulu atau riset yang relevan berfungsi untuk memperkuat teori dan penomena hubungan atau pengaruh antar variable. Artikel ini mereview Faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi Kepuasan pelanggan dan Loyalitas Pelanggan suatu studi literatur Manajemen Pemasaran. Hasil artikel literature review ini adalah: 1) Kualitas Pelayanan berpengaruh terhadap Kepuasan Pelanggan; 2) Kepuasan Pelanggan berpengaruh terhadap Loyalitas Pelanggan

Quality assurance for distance higher education is one of the main concerns among institutions and stakeholders today. This paper examines the experiences of Universitas Terbuka (UT), which has initiated and implemented an innovative strategy of quality assurance (QA) for continuous improvement. The credo of the UT quality assurance system is "We write what we do. We do what we write. We check. We improve continuously!" Implementing a quality management system at the UT, a mega-university with a student body of more than a quarter of a million and which involved a network of participating institutions and regional centres, was a formidable task to accomplish. To achieve its lofty goal, UT adopted and contextualised the draft of the Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU) QA Framework to launch its own quality assurance program. This has taken a great deal of commitment and participation of all staff involved. QA at the UT required systematic and step-by-step processes, including development of the QA framework and job manuals, raising awareness and commitment amongst all staff involved, internal assessment, and integration of QA programs into the university's annual action plans, external assessment and benchmarking. This paper concludes that quality assurance must be developed as institutional policy and strategy for continuous improvement.

Proses belajar mengajar merupakan aktivitas yang berlangsung dengan melibatkan bermacammacam komponen yang saling berinteraksi untuk mencapai tujuan yang salah satunya adalah kreativitas siswa. Untuk itu perlu dilakukan usaha perbaikan pengajaran yang lebih mendasar yang menyangkut tentang proses pemecahan masalah dalam proses belajar mengajar untuk meningkatkan prestasi belajar siswa. Penelitian ini untuk menjawab permasalahan bagaimanakah pengaruh kreativitas siswa terhadap kemampuan memecahkan masalah fisika pokok bahasan optic fisis dalam pembelajaran kontekstual. Populasi adalah seluruh siswa kelas XI SMA 3 Jombang, sedangkan sampel yang diambil adalah siswa kelas XI-A. Data penelitian dikumpulkan dengan metode tes, yaitu tes kreativitas dan tes kemampuan memecahkan masalah. Data dianalisis dengan analisis korelasi regresi sederhana diperoleh hasil penelitian sebagai berikut Terdapat hubungan yang positif dan signifikan antara kreativitas siswa terhadap kemampuan memecahkan masalah fisika pokok bahasan optic fisis dengan koefisien korelasi r = 0,752 dan diperoleh hubungan fungsional antara kreativitas dengan kemampuan memecahkan masalah yang dinyatakan dengan garis linier Y = 8,37 + 0,85X. Hasil penelitian ini juga menunjukkan makin tinggi kreativitas makin tinggi pula kemampuan memecahkan masalah dalam pelajaran fisika. Dengan demikian usaha untuk meningkatkan mutu pendidikan perlu diarahkan pada pengembangan potensi kreativitas dalam pembelajaran.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the partial and simultan influence of pedagogical competence, professional, and work motivation on teacher performance.Survey method using correlational quantitative approach is employed with a sample of 68 teachers, which constitutes the population.The data is analysed using descriptive analysis, and regression analysis to test R Square and hypothesis test of partial and simultaneous.From the analysis result and test, it can be concluded that there are positive and significant influence of pedagogic, professionalcompetence, work motivation on teacher performance partial and simultaneously represented by the regression equation Ŷ= 14,554 + 0,661 X1 + 0,477 X2 + 0,581 X3.This proves that the higher pedagogic competence, professional competence, and work motivation will impact ona higher teacher's performancein achieving educational goals.
 Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisispengaruh kompetensi pedagogik, profesional, dan motivasi kerja terhadap kinerja guru secara parsial dan simultan. Menggunakan metode survei dengan pendekatan kuantitatif korelasional.Sampel yang digunakan sebanyak 68 orang guru, diambil dengan teknik sampling jenuh (sensus). Analisis data menggunakan analisis deskriptif regresi linier untuk menguji hipotesis secara parsial dan simultan. Dari hasil analisis dan pengujian diperoleh kesimpulan terdapat pengaruh yang positif dan signifikan kompetensi pedagogik, profesional, motivasi kerja terhadap kinerja guru secara parsial dan simultan, dengan persamaan regresi Ŷ= 14,554 + 0,661 X1 + 0,477 X2 + 0,581 X3. Ini membuktikan bahwa semakin tinggi kompetensi pedagogik, profesional, dan motivasi kerja, maka kinerja guru juga tinggi dalam mencapai tujuan pendidikan.

Riset terdahulu atau riset yang relevan sangat penting dalam suatu riset atau artikel ilmiah. Riset terdahulu atau riset yang relevan berfungsi untuk memperkuat teori dan penomena hubungan atau pengaruh antar variable. Artikel ini mereview faktor yang mempengaruhi kinerja pegawai melalui lingkungan kerja, kepuasan kerja, dan komitmen organsiasi, Suatu Studi Literatur Manajemen Sumberdaya Manusia. Hasil dari library risearch ini adalah bahwa: 1) lingkungan kerja berpengaruh terhadap kinerja pegawai; 2) kepuasan kerja berpengaruh terhadap kinerja pegawai; 3) dan komitmen organisasi berpengaruh terhadap kinerja pegawai.

With the phenomenal expansion of distance education in Asia during the past three decades, there has been growing public demand for quality and accountability in distance education. This study investigates the national quality assurance systems for distance education at the higher education level in Asia with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of the current level of development of quality assurance in Asian distance education and to offer potential directions for policy makers when developing and elaborating quality assurance systems for distance education. The analysis of the existing quality assurance frameworks in the 11 countries/territories selected reveals that the level of quality assurance policy integration in the overall national quality assurance in higher education policy framework varies considerably. The purpose of quality assurance, policy frameworks, methods, and instruments in place are generally tailored to each country’s particular circumstances. There are, however, obvious commonalities that underpin these different quality assurance efforts. <br /><br />

Purpose Quality assurance (QA) in open and distance learning (ODL) has always become universal concerns of stakeholders. The quality of ODL has been confronted with challenges in terms of the diversity of inputs, processes, the complex supply chain management of ODL and recent paradigm shift into online learning. Assuring the quality of ODL are daunting tasks at individual, institution and system levels. Completed before the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, this study aims to better understand the implementation of QA system in three Asian open universities (OUs), namely University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), Universitas Terbuka (UT), Indonesia and Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative method was employed involving analysis of documents of the three Asian OUs and focus group discussions and interviews with management and staff. Data collected were then analyzed to draw conclusions and possible recommendations. Findings Findings of this study presented good practices, challenges and rooms for improvement of the QA system in the three Asian OUs. Focusing on students and stakeholders in their QA effort, this study has revealed that quality begins with inner self and is multidimensional. QA is principally viewed as continuous improvement, as mechanism and assessment and as effort at exceeding expectations of students and stakeholders. The recent challenge for QA is to embrace a delicate process of ODL transformation into online digital system. The recent COVID-19 outbreak has further implications and challenged QA implementation in ODL in higher education into the next level of complexity. Practical implications This study revealed the diversities in how OUs met the societal needs of their respective stakeholders and addressed the challenges ahead for QA in ODL. Originality/value These findings were expected to enhance the understanding of the theory and practice of QA in ODL and to contribute to quality improvement of ODL programs.

This study analyzes the performance of the Indonesian banking sector efficiency and peeling technique factors that lead to inefficiencies that could reduce the bank's internal performance using Data Envelopment Analisys model (DEA). Research on the efficiency of banking techniques in Indonesia in 2000-2004 conducted using secondary data analysis including balance sheets and income statements of banks in Indonesia 12, the number of bank offices, and the number of bank employees in 2000 until 2004. Results of DEA analysis for the entire group decreased efficiency of banks during the crisis, except Bank Mandiri. This means that Bank Mandiri has the best performance compared to other banks. Inefficiency generally caused by using less than optimal inputs to produce output. Inputs that have not been completely allocated are assets and labor are not on optimizing the range below 50 percent. To produce the maximum efficiency, the bank must increase the use of its inputs to 100 percent.

The development of information and communication technologies advance so quickly penetrated allthese sectors of life. The development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) israpidly increasing.The need for a concept and mechanism of learning (education) -based IT isinevitable. This concept becomes known as e-learning brings the influence of conventional educationtransformation process into a digital form, both contents (contents) and the system. Currently, elearning concept has been widely accepted by the world community, as evidenced by the widespreadimplementation of e-learning, especially in educational institutions (schools, training, anduniversity).This system is an efficient and effective system for using only an Internet connection will be realized alearning. Sumber process of learning in this digital era known as OER (Open EducationalResources) that any of the assets or learning resources (print / electronic) that can be accessed,download and use free and open to the public (anyone) for the sake of learning and research.Without the need to file a written permission to the creator/publisher (copyright) (Dholakia, king, b OECD, 2007). Learning resources are utilized and developed in Higher EducationDistance (Newspapers) as an online learning media (online media).

The sense of nationalism is very important for the young generation of Indonesia to be able to become a developed nation, a modern nation, a nation that is safe, and peaceful, just and prosperous in the midst of globalization that increasingly challenges the Indonesian state. As a nation and country in the midst of other nations in the world, it requires a high nationalism identity of citizens, especially among the young generation of Indonesia. The spirit of nationalism is still needed by the existence of the Indonesian nation and state. High nationalism from citizens or the younger generation will make positive and best behavior for the nation and state. In the current era of globalization there are several trends of depletion of the spirit of nationalism among the younger generation. This can be seen from a number of benchmarks, namely the lack of appreciation of the younger generation of Indonesian native culture, patterns and lifestyles of Westernized teenagers, and so on. To overcome this problem, it is necessary to have an intensive and continuous movement in the world of education related to the planting of a sense of nationalism towards students from elementary to tertiary levels that must be done by teachers and lecturers by respecting and being proud of indigenous Indonesian culture. In this paper the author tries to explain the circumstances and facts about the development of nationalism through library studies.