Digitizing Conventional Learning Materials: Production Phase

Abstract

Digitalization of Education field has been highlighted as main initiative to improve the quality of human capital as part of national roadmap program "Making Indonesia 4.0" (interpreted as industry 4.0) which has been officially launched on April 2018. Education Ministry launched the national online learning system as initiative to provide wider access of education. As new method of learning, it requires an innovative strategy to transform the system. One of the most major things is to produce high-quality online course module as substitution of face-to-face (FtF) learning method. This research is aimed to identify and analyze the conversion steps of learning materials and compare the learning outcomes. Digital content in this study refers to online course module for higher education. FGD was conducted with 10 participants to evaluate design and development process of digitizing conventional materials. During January and April 2019, 97 students were involved in this research, they are equally assigned to two types of learning modes; fully online and onsite classroom in which taught by the same lecturer with same learning objectives, assessment materials, and assignments. The finding is there were no significant differences among the student learning outcomes of on-site and distance learning modes. We concluded that the strategy and process of converting regular course module into the digital course one has no effect on the learning outcomes in both blended learning and distance learning strategy.