Learning process that occurs in individual is aiming to get skills, abilities and knowledge. The success indicator of learning process learning can be seen in student’s achievement that qualitatively should be better than the previous state. In order to achieve student’s learning achievement as expected, it is necessary to note several factors that affect learning performances, including: internal and external factors. Internal factors are contained in students, such as: intelligence, talent, interest and motivation. While external factors are factors that come outside of the student, such as experience, family background, school environment and so on.
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November 27th, 2009
Dimas
PERSONAL LEARNING THEORY
As I’ve told earlier, I work at higher education institution that uses open education as its main system. In fact, my institution is the only university that offering this system in my country. On one side, this condition gives us benefit because we do not have competitors and there are a promising demand and market for open and distance education. But on the other side this, condition is also difficult because we do not have any references that we can take or learn from domestic resources. The only ways that we can do is to learn and take other institution’s experiences from aboard then try to implement their experiences to our institution. The implementation processes often use trial and error approach. This experience also happened when I and the team were trying to implement e-learning into Universitas Terbuka’s system. It takes approximately 10 years to find the suitable E-learning platform and model that match with our institutions and student’s characteristics. I had just joined on the team in the fifth year of this project running.
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November 23rd, 2009
Dimas
brick
I’ve followed the workshop on how to change the method of teaching from teacher centered to student centered learning three years ago. I’m not a teacher, but my job as a programmer for educational institution requires me to know a little about education. And I think this was my first experience being introduced with ‘constructivism’. We had been told to leave old teaching paradigm. Instead just ‘feed’ students with all of information and want them to remember, we need to find way how to make students actively found the information and solve problems by themselves.
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