At present, through the help of the internet, an increasing number of higher education institutions worldwide encourages faculty and students to adopt e-Learning in spite of the many barriers still exists in its implementation. This study presents how organizational factors and ease of use influence perceived usefulness and intention to use e-Learning. For this purpose, three hundred and ninety four samples collected from students of seven higher institutions in Southeast Sulawesi of Indonesia were surveyed with a questionnaire to validate the proposed framework through their own perceived behaviors. The result of the analysis using structural equation modeling of SmartPLS 2.0 shows that organizational culture, and perceived ease of use is positively related to both Perceived Usefulness and Intention to Use e-Learning. In addition, Organizational Support shows a significant effect on Intention to Use e-Learning, but a weak effect on Perceived Usefulness of e-Learning.

With a growing increase of mobile phone and Internet users through cellular phones, competition among provider companies of mobile broadband services is becoming very tight to win competition among the competitors. This article aims at analyzing the role of customer motivation in mediating the effect of marketing communication on customer decision in using Kartu

The objective of this research is to find out challenges faced by English teachers in the remote area based on school-based management point of view. The method used in this research was qualitative method with phenomenological approach. It was conducted at SMP Negeri1 Wawonii Tenggara, SMP Negeri 2 Wawonii Tenggara, and SMP Negeri 2 Wawonii Tenggara. The total subjects of this research consisted of 3 English teachers who were not native resident of the study location. The data were collected by in-depth interview, observation, and documentation study. The data were analyzed by using modification of Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen method in Creswell (1998). The data analysis indicated that challenges faced by English teachers based on two aspects of School-based management were as follows: (1) challenges faced by English teachers in remote area based on teachers’ role as a teacher/an educator, (2) challenges faced by English teachers in remote area based on teachers’ role in organizing school-based management. The result showed that there were some challenges that the teachers faced namely: inadequate school facilities, lack of parents’ motivation to their children, lack of students' competence, and overburdened with more duties and responsibilities. To overcome the teachers’ challenges were not only the teachers’ responsibility but also the components of school itself, including headmaster, administrator staff, society and students’ parents to realize their role in School-Based Management and work together with good coordination to get the purpose of implementing School-Based Management.

The fast development of science and technology has brought about changes in human life. This applies to all aspects of life including education. In the field of education, teachers are demanded to adjust to the development that they can no longer be dependent just on their textbooks or course books, if they want their teaching to be motivating and successful. They need to be updated with the current development of technology and be creative and innovative in their teaching, hence, need to be technology-literate. Learning interactions no longer take place only in the real, but also in virtual classroom, especially due to Covid-19 pandemic. This paper justifies that Powtoon is a good choice for a teacher because it is not only an application to be used to video-animate teaching materials, but also as a teaching media by which materials can be interestingly presented to keep students learning from home during the pandemic of Covid-19. Moreover, it is also a Learning Management System which a teacher can use to create a virtual classroom.  Keywords:Powtoon; Learning Material; Learning from Home; Covid 19 Pandemic

The use of technology in teaching and learning is an important aspect which has received  considerable attention  in  recent  years.  In a similar  sense,  the use of mobile phone application especially WhatsApp  messenger to  increase effectiveness of instruction has been acknowledged through a number of studies carried out so far. This study was conducted to find the effect of using WhatsApp Messenger on students’ speaking achievement at the second grade students of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri (MAN) 1 Kendari. The research question is that “Is there any significant effect of using WhatsApp messenger on students’ speaking achievement at the second grade students of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri (MAN) 1 Kendari?” This study used a quantitative approach by applying a comparative study. The participants of the study consisted of 60 students who were in two different classes: class XI IPA 2 as the experimental class and class XI IPA 4 as the control class. The experimental class consisted of 30 students taught in a combination method (WhatsApp Messenger and discussion method)   while the control class consisted of 30 students taught through using a conventional method. The  results of this  study showed  that  there  were  differences  in  the  speaking achievement of the students in the experimental class and the control class. This difference was in favor of the experimental class. The value of Chi-Square count is 28.486 and the Chi-Square Table is 19.675. So the H1 accepted and H0 is rejected . The differences between the two classes indicated that integrating the WhatsApp application in teaching English language improved speaking achievement of the students of the experimental class. Keywords: WhatsApp Messenger, Discussion, Speaking  achievement.