WHO announced the Covid-19 as Global Pandemic in early 2020? This condition immediately urged universities to migrate their instructional process to fully online learning as a result of the suggestion of physical distancing. This situation indeed results in the shock of the culture of learning and teaching. Following its shock, of course, questions arise related to the readiness of higher education in implementing fully online learning. This study aims to measure the readiness of lecturers and students of the Faculty of Economics, Universitas Negeri Medan (Unimed), in implementing digital learning. This study investigates the readiness from the normative belief perspectives. Normative belief is one of the critical antecedents of behavioral intention, as explained in The Theory of Planned Behavior [1]. The respondents of this study were lecturers and students at the Faculty of Economics, Unimed. This study uses simple random sampling to select the sample. With the snowball technique, this study collected 226 responses. 85 respondents were a lecturer, and 141 was a student. Data collection was carried out with an electronic questionnaire designed with 5-Likert scales. This study examines the differences of responses between lecturers and students as well as between men and women to avoid response bias. The results of this study indicate that lecturers and students have firm beliefs regarding their readiness to migrate learning activities to the online platform. Likewise, the findings of this study also indicate nervousness in the migration. The results of this study provide challenges for learning researchers and Education technology to produce recommendations for learning models that are suitable for implementing quality learning on digital platforms. The same challenge is faced with universities and regulators to develop best practices in teaching practices and regulations that urge innovation in teaching practices.
A graduate tracing study or often known as a tracer study, is a study of graduates of a university. The results of this tracer study can be used to evaluate an educational program. Alumni are at the forefront of the study program to always encourage them to always look ahead while at the same time attracting their younger generation to participate and feel their success. Alumni are the determinants of quality in teaching and learning activities at the University, both the quality of teachers, namely lecturers and the quality of education staff. The State University of Medan as an educational institution needs to use complete data related to study tracers to evaluate available study programs. To find out the competencies possessed by alumni with their application to the world of work and to know the supervisor's assessment for graduates who are already working, the study program needs to conduct a tracer study. The purpose of conducting a tracer study is to obtain information about the distribution of graduates, graduate activities, positions and roles carried out by graduates as well as stakeholder opinions. The research method used in this graduate search is a quantitative method through the distribution of questionnaires. Questionnaires were distributed to graduates throughout 2019 at Medan State University with data analysis using SPSS. The results of the study explain that the competencies possessed by graduates are in accordance with the needs of the world of work along with the position and participation of graduates in the world of work. The results of the study also found that the waiting period for graduates to work was only six months and graduate users were satisfied with the work results of their graduates.
Interest in opening a new business after completing lectures at the State University of Medan is still a concern. This shows that the students' low interest in entrepreneurship. An entrepreneurial ecosystem can be formed because students come from various disciplines who are possible to have a meeting of demand and supply to become young entrepreneurs in the future. This study focuses on developing a model of variables related to entrepreneurial interest by using each item to explain the actual situation experienced by Medan State University students. This study uses a quantitative approach with survey research methods. The sample in this study were Unimed students using a questionnaire. The questionnaire used to collect data is an electronic questionnaire. The questionnaire was filled in by contacting the respondents via cellular telephone as many as 275 respondents. The results show that the seven question items as a whole still have not answered the needs of students in creating and developing entrepreneurial learning practices in initiating students to have entrepreneurial abilities independently. The results show that the self-confidence variable has a statement item that has the highest response, which is that I am more confident to start a business after taking entrepreneurship courses and the lowest response is that I start a new business seriously after taking entrepreneurship courses. Then, the task orientation and outcome variables have statement items that get the highest response, namely I am interested in taking entrepreneurship courses and the lowest response is that I am able to manage a business after taking entrepreneurship courses. Furthermore, the business risk variable has a statement item that has the highest response, namely I have learned to face risks in business after taking entrepreneurship courses and the statement that has the lowest response is I dare to take risks starting a business after taking entrepreneurship courses. Finally, on the future orientation variable, the statement item that has the highest response is Through entrepreneurship courses, from the University, my skills, knowledge, and interest in entrepreneurship have increased and the statement that has the lowest response is I have successfully identified future business opportunities. future after taking entrepreneurship courses.
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