The learning process in West Sumatera, Indonesia, changed into an online-based system due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which involved educators and students using many platforms of e-learning for teaching and learning. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to evaluate the use of e-learning platforms among students at universities in West Sumatera, Indonesia, during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly widely used Google Classroom. This research employs the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) by considering relevant external factors related to the pandemic situation and examining their effects on the acceptance of Google Classroom. A questionnaire was distributed from December 11th to December 31st, 2020, to collect data via an online-based survey. Using Cochran's formula with a confidence level of 95%, 383 students were selected as samples, while Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was applied as a method for data analysis. The result showed that the facility had made the learning process easy for students, which influenced its usefulness. The facility is related to the possession of the required tools and knowledge to utilize the technology, alongside the significant effect on ease of use and usefulness. When adequately provided, the ease and benefit of using Google Classroom are maximally felt when distance learning is ongoing. Consequently, the ease of use positively influenced the benefits of the platform as its features were simple and benefited the students during the learning process. The usefulness of Google Classroom also had a positive influence on attitude towards the platform, and this variable finally determined the intention to use, which was significantly influenced by the perceived usefulness of e-learning. Therefore, this study shows that factors that determine facility, such as the internet, devices used by students, or knowledge to use Google Classroom, are important in online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the technological paradigms developed in the industrial revolution 4.0. The concept of IoT is an object can transfer data over a network without interaction from human-to-human or from human-to-computer. One of the IoT implementations in the education sector is the attendance system using IoT-based Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The attendance machines such as fingerprints and face recognition have a relatively high-cost compared to RFID machines. Hence, if the number of attendance machines within the School is limited, it will be less efficient for a large number of students and vulnerable to queuing. The RFID implementation in the Education sector was socialized through a Workshop with students and teachers of the secondary schools in Purwakarta, West Java, as the participants. To provide additional insight and expertise about the RFID-IoT concept to the workshop participants, this community service activity needs to be done. Several benefits will be obtained through this workshop, including saving paper use and efficiency, because the RFID-based IoT can reduce the teachers’ workload in processing the student attendance lists. Teachers are also invited to this workshop so they can guide their students and pass on the additional skills. Moreover, the invited teacher will teach new knowledge related to workshop material to other students in the School.Keywords: Internet-of-things, RFID, Mesin Kehadiran, Workshop, Purwakarta ABSTRAKInternet of Things (IoT) merupakan salah satu paradigma teknologi yang dikembangkan dalam revolusi industri 4.0. Konsep IoT adalah suatau objek dapat mentransfer data lewat jaringan tanpa adanya interaksi dari manusia ke manusia ataupun dari manusia ke perangkat komputer. Salah satu implementasinya pada bidang pendidikan yaitu sistem kehadiran menggunakan Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) berbasis teknologi IoT. Mesin kehadiran seperti fingerprint dan face recognition memiliki harga yang relatif mahal dibandingkan mesin RFID. Sementara, jika jumlah mesin kehadiran yang ada di sekolah terbatas, hal ini sedikit kurang efisien untuk jumlah siswa yang sangat banyak dan rentan menimbulkan antrian. Implementasi RFID di bidang Pendidikan ini disosialisasikan melalui sebuah Workshop dengan siswa dan Guru dari sekolah menengah di Purwakarta, Jawa Barat sebagai peserta. Untuk dapat memberikan tambahan wawasan dan keterampilan mengenai mesin kehadiran RFID dengan konsep IoT kepada peserta Workshop, maka pengabdian masyarakat ini perlu dilakukan. Beberapa manfaat akan didapat memalui workshop ini, termasuk menghemat penggunaan kertas dan efisiensi karena RFID berbasis IoT mengurangi beban kerja guru dalam mengolah data kehadiran siswa. Guru turut diundang dalam workshop ini agar mereka dapat membimbing siswanya dan menularkan tambahan keterampilan dan wawasan yang didapat dari kegiatan PKM ini kepada siswa lainnya di sekolah..Kata Kunci: Internet-of-things, RFID, Workshop, Purwakarta
Since the policy of sending students home to study as a result of responding to the dangers of the pandemic, universities around the world have increasingly trusted distance learning solutions. The solution was to rely on digital literacy to continue and improve student learning outcomes during the COVID-19 disruption. For this reason, the researchers have proven it through analytical efforts and in-depth studies in several international publications. In short, the researchers examined each piece of evidence with a phenomenological approach to get answers to research questions that are among other things, involve a data coding system, critical evaluation, and drawing of valid and reliable final results. The data discussion concludes that world universities believe that digital technology that was increasingly trending can become a learning innovation even though the world will continue to hit global education. Hence, the researchers hope that these findings should support other studies in the future. Keywords: Digital Literacy, Learning Outcomes, Entrust Digital Literacy
Nowadays, Islamic higher education must be able to understand the change and do the transformation of management in various sectors. In this perspective, as one of the efforts to improve quality and competitiveness in the era of revolution 4.0. Therefore, Islamic higher education needs to make a breakthrough, by building benchmarking among universities. Besides, it is also necessary to transform the management of information technology, towards a model of Islamic higher education becoming an international class. This study used a qualitative approach in term of case studies. Therefore, this research was natural, descriptive and inductive, by understanding the meaning behind the phenomenon or event in the subject under study. The results of this study explained that the significance of the development of the quality of higher education at Nurul Jadid Paiton Probolinggo University could not be separated from benchmarking as an approach and strategy to achieve the progress. In addition, to effectively implement benchmarking, Nurul Jadid University used SWOT analysis for an internal and external environment of the organization.
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