blended learning as a model of teaching and learning at university
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TANTANGAN NASIONAL KONTEMPORER DAN
TANGGUNG JAWAB PERGURUAN TINGGI
BLENDED LEARNING AS A MODEL OF TEACHING AND LEARNING AT UNIVERSITY
Prof. Dr. RAVIK KARSIDI, M.S. Rector of Sebelas Maret University
Surakarta, Indonesia
SEBELAS MARET UNIVERSITY IN BRIEF
1. Sebelas Maret University (UNS) is one of 85 state (and more than 3,000 private) universities in Indonesia, located in Surakarta, Central Java;
2. It has around 37,000 students studying in 9 faculties and 1 graduate school;
3. It has 1,545 lecturers, including 350 Ph.D. holders and 150 professors. 2
VISION
“Becoming a center for excellence in the development of science,
technology, and art at the international level based on the noble
values of the national culture"
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MISSIONS 1. Providing effective education, teaching
and learning, fostering all teachers to develop their professionalism and all students to improve their autonomy in acquiring their knowledge, skills, and attitude;
2. Conducting researches leading to new invention in science, technology, and art;
3. Carrying out community service that can encourage the society to gain their power and welfare.
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LONG-TERM STRATEGIC PLANNING
To realize its vision and mission, UNS has developed a long-term strategic planning for 2011-2030. The first phase of the planning (2011-2015) is the realization of good university governance and good human capital through organizational restructuring and management system, which includes eight flagship programs, to reach 20 goals through 85 events, complete with key performance indicators (KPI).
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E-LEARNING PROGRAM
One of the flagship programs is the achievement of excellence in the management of knowledge with sub-program development of knowledge management based on information and communication technology. Related activities featured on the program is to strengthen the development of e-learning with a target of 16.8% of subjects
implementing e-learning in 2012.
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CONVENTIONAL TEACHING AND LEARNING
In the past, teaching and learning activity in UNS was conducted mainly in the classroom, where the lecturers delivered their teaching materials manually using conventional teaching aids like a whiteboard and an overhead projector. This traditional way of teaching and learning required the students and the lecturers to have a face-to-face interaction in the classroom, and the presence of the students in the meeting was regarded as one important prerequisite for the success of their study.
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THE WEAKNESSES OF CONVENTIONAL TEACHING AND
LEARNING
1. It requires certain rooms, which is sometimes problemtic;
2. Different styles of learning cannot be sufficiently provided;
3. It depends on a fixed time schedule;
4. Students’ individual needs cannot be satisfactorily fulfilled; etc.
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MOVING FORWARD
The invention of modern education technology enables the students and the lecturers to manage teaching and learning more flexibly. They do not have to meet face-to-face in the classroom to carry out teaching and learning activities. They can interact using distance learning, that is, a process to create and provide access to learning when the source of information and the students are separated by time or distance or both.
DEVELOPING E-LEARNING PROGRAM
In the last 3 years, UNS has seriously developed e-learning program. It is a strategy of learning using online system through internet and intranet. This mode of teaching and learning requires the students and the lecturers to have interactions at the same time but different places or different time and different places.
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PROGRESS
Up to December 2012, there have been 827 subjects enrolled in elarning.uns.ac.id. The use of e-learning (by utilizing elearning.uns.ac.id) reaches 13,372 students with 469 teachers involved in it. The achievement of the implementation of e-learning in UNS is partly due to the cooperation of UNS with some other institutions such SEAMOLEC, DBE-USAID, and Directorate General of Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia.
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THE NEED OF DIRECT MEETING
However, as social creature, we still need direct meeting in learning transaction because there are some social and psychological aspects which cannot be effectively tackled by the technology. For example, when we use e-learning, we cannot easily and immediately see students’ gestures accompanying their verbal responses. There are, indeed, some other weaknesses of e-learning.
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BLENDE LEARNING AS A SOLUTION
Blended learning, therefore, becomes an ideal model of teaching and learning. It combines traditional face-to-face classroom methods with more modern mode of teaching and learning (e-learning).
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WHAT SHOULD WE DO? 1. We need to select and organize
learning experiences which are effectively carried out by conventional larning and those carried out by e-learning.
2. We need to manage the proportion of those two modes of teaching and learning, depending on the availability of technology and the competencies of teachers and students.
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3. We need to make a regulation concerning some issues, like the frequency of teachers’ and students’ attendance in the classroom.
4. We have to provide teachers and students with certain skills in selecting and using technologies in order that blended learning can run smoothly.
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