Konstruktivisme memandang bahwa belajar berpusat pada peserta didik [child centered] dimana belajar dilakukan melalui discovery inquiry. Peserta didik merupakan pemikir dan penemu informasi sehingga dapat mengkonstruksi pengetahuannya. Proses pembelajaran disajikan secara konstektual, multi media, multi metode, dan multi sumber belajar yang dikaitkan dengan permasalahan keseharian, sehingga gur…
Salah satu upaya pemerintah dalam meningkatkan mutu pendidikan nasional adalah dengan melaksanakan Ujian Nasional (UN) sebagai pengejawantahan standar nasional pendidikan dibidang penilaian. Kebijakan ini sejak ditetapkan pada tahun 2003 hingga saat ini terus menuai kritik dari berbagai pihak diantaranya melalui mekanisme gugatan warga Negara alias citizen law suit, baik menyangkut kontradisi t…
Dalam era informasi telah terjadi perubahan dalam segala aspek dengan sangat cepat dan terus menerus,sehingga telah memasuki daerah complexity dan chaos.Kondisi ini menuntut individu dan organisasi,termasuk sistem pendidikan nasional untuk mengembangkan budaya mutu,sehingga mempunyai daya saing yang tinggi untuk survive dan berkembang.Dalam kaitan inilah sistem pendidikan nasional harus menumbu…
Keselarasan antara tujuan,pengalaman belajar,dan evaluasi adalah produk pendidikan yang dihasilkan dan yang dicitakan dalam kurikulum pendidikanPTAI. Kesesuaian dan konsistensi behavior dan content yang ditetapkan dalam statement tujuan dengan Behavior dan content yang dikembangkan dalam proses pembelajaran serta Behavior dan content yang dinilai dalam evaluasi mengindikasikan bahwa proses pemb…
itiswidely accepted that education is one important sector in human life especially related to access and participation. However, Indonesia still faces problem in relation to equal education access for boys and girls as reflected in school participation rate where the rate for boys is higher than those for girls. This situasion shows, to some point, hind rents the Indonesia goverment to provide…
This article reports of a research which was conducted to investigate whether psicological interventions, Which usually are provided in face-to-face manners within laboratories, classrooms or other environments could also be given at a distance. The given psychological interventions were aimend at enhancing first year distance education studens'self-directed learning abilities and achievement. …
One of the problems faced by distance learning intitution is the of lack interaction between students and lecturees. To solve this problems, Univesitas Terbuka (UT) where media internet condeneted a facility of comunity forum service in UT website. This research aim is to describe UT students interaction pattern in the community forum, during regristration2006.2 until 2007.1. This research show…
Student's academic survival is the ability of a student to remain active in his study. There were many researchers who have conducted researches concerning student's academic survival but the data used were not considered as censored data. Data of student's academic survival at Universitas Terbuka [UT] as a higher distance education can be category censored data. The censorship type used in thi…
Economic condition of Universitas Terbuka [UT] regional offices (RO) influences quality of services provided to UT's students as well as provides information on the effetiveness of the ROs. Analysis from economic condition of 36 ROs based on 2005-2006 student's body dan active study programs crossed with minimum of students number required for economic break even point (BEP) in each ROs resulte…
Study program S1 extension and comminication agriculture (S1 PKP) in Universitas Terbuka (UT) has been opened since 2004 and until December 2006 has already graduated 514 alumni. The alumni resides all over indonesia hence calling for a tracer study. In addition, it is also perceived important to obtain the alumni's perception about curriculum of the study program. This article discusses charac…