PENGARUH PEMBELAJARAN E-LEARNING DAN KEBIASAAN BELAJAR TERHADAP PENINGKATAN KOMPETENSI MAHASISWA PASCASARJANA PADA UNIVERSITAS BINA NUSANTARA

E-learning is a learning method that using electronic media as teaching materials to students. The definition of E-learning is very wide, which by terminology associated with online learning. Elearning in Bina Nusantara University is an E-learning which is done by online learning named as Binus Online Learning. Binus Online Learning applying the blended learning as a combination of online learning and face-to-face learning. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of E-learning system and learning habits towards the online and regular students of MMSI and MTI major. Data were taken from 210 respondents of regular and online active student of Bina Nusantara University, and analyzed with the Pearson product moment parametric correlation using SPSS 21 as tools. Further research was conducted to compare the competence between regular and online class based on MMSI and MTI major using cross tabulation and one way ANOVA to significant difference test

Video or audio listening tests for English language teaching context: which is more effective for classroom use?

Multimodal inputs (both auditory and visual) in the forms of films and videos have long been used in teaching EFL listening comprehension. Previous studies have shown that listening while watching videos can significantly aid students’ comprehension. However, videos were rarely used as testing materials since they contained more than aural input so they did not ‘really’ test listening. This study explored the extent to which multimodal testing materials can be used in testing listening comprehension for EFL students and how the results would differ from that of mono modality testing materials. The participants were 100 students of the English Department, Bina Nusantara University (henceforth Binus) University Jakarta. The researchers gave them two kinds of tests: the video listening test (VLT) and audio listening test (ALT). The materials were two short videos from YouTube. The first test, ALT was given after the participants listened to the videos twice. On the contrary, VLT was administered after they watched the videos twice. To examine the differences in the effects of VLT or ALT on EFL students’ performance in listening comprehension, the data were analyzed quantitatively. The results indicate that students got better scores for VLT compared to ALT. The findings imply that students’ performance in listening comprehension is significantly improved with multimodal testing material

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Sociopsychotechnological Predictors of Individual’s Social Loafing in Virtual Team

The rapid development of technology and the demands of the workers to be productive have made efficiency and effectiveness of virtual team collaboration is becoming increasingly urgent lately. Therefore, it is important to identify the variables undermining the efficiency and effectiveness. This study aimed to investigate the role of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and perceived playfulness of online collaboration tool (as elements of technology acceptance) and xenophobia in predicting social loafing (at the individual level)─a social psychological phenomenon that shows the declining performance of the individual when working in the group. The contribution of this research is its attempt to combine social psychological and technological factors in explaining human performance in the context of the group when interacting with technology. The research design was correlational predictive, with multiple linear regression data analysis technique. Participants of this study were 80 students and employees (43 males, 37 females; mean of age = 25.58 years of old, standard deviation of age = 4.92 years) who work using online collaboration tool in a virtual team. The results showed that the perceived playfulness, perceived ease of use, and xenophobia were able to predict an individual’s social loafing, but the perceived usefulness is not able to predict it. Implications of the results of research in order to prevent social loafing are stated in the Discussion section

How Do Binus University Undergraduate Students Value English in the General, Academic, and ELT Context?

Article explored the issues of the reasons and ways Indonesian undergraduate students taking English subjects at Binus University valued English, particularly in relation to its roles and influences as the dominant language and as the world's lingua franca, and how these could give impacts on the ELT (English Language Teaching) purposes at Binus University. The study used the quantitative approach to find out the pattern of the ways they valued English in the general, academic and ELT contexts. The analysis of the quantitative results showed that there was a tendency that non-computer students value English relatively higher than computer students in terms of linguistically imperialistic ideas and macroacquisition views, while English itself tended to be respected by all students for both reasons of material/non-material benefits as well as International influences. In summary, teacher resources, teaching techniques, curriculum design, material content and assessment format should put these findings into consideration so as to make the best teaching methodology for ELT practices at Binus University