DESIGNING COMPUTER-BASED EXERCISES USING WEBLOG, HOT POTATOES SOFTWARE AND SKYPE MESSENGERS IN CREATING IDEAS TO FACILITATE INDEPENDENCE LEARNING OF READING COMPREHENSION

The design-based research methodology explicates how design not only allowed more effective student representation and sharing of the different levels of knowledge required for abstraction to occur, but also enabled better teacher assessment and, hence, remediation also provides detailed guidance on creating interactive content (from the application of learning strategies and media to courseware development). On the basis of the emerging findings of the study a set of principles for designing web-conferencing (or other online) environments to support creative design learning is proposed. This mainly addresses trainers and instructional designers who aim to create learning projects that really match learners’ needs, was considered appropriate and suitable for the students to develop their reading comprehension. This interactive and interesting design would increase the students’ motivation to learn reading comprehension in fun environment. It is expected that they could change their habit of the learning by accessing the exercises regularly as the media Keywords: Weblog, Hot Potatoes Sofware, Skype Messengers, and Reading Comprehensio

PELATIHAN PENULISAN ARTIKEL DAN PUBLIKASI ILMIAH BAGI GURU-GURU PESERTA PENDIDIKAN PROFESI GURU UNIVERSITAS WIJAYA KUSUMA SURABAYA

Guru-guru peserta Pendidikan Profesi Guru di Universitas Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya sangat membutuhkan kompetensi tambahan dalam menulis artikel ilmiah. Kompetensi menulis artikel ilmiah dibutuhkan oleh para guru untuk membantu mereka meningkatkan keprofesionalan sebagai seorang guru. Sebagai seorang guru dituntut mampu menulis artikel yang dipublikasikan di jurnal. Publikasi di jurnal ilmiah sangat membantu para guru saat mereka berkeinginan meningkatkan pangkat dan golongan saat mereka kembali ke sekolah masing-masing. Didasarkan pada keinginan membantu para guru dalam meningkatkan kompetensi menulis artikel ilmiah, pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini dilakukan. Apabila memungkinkan rencana kegiatan kepada masyarakat akan dilaksanakan luring dan apabila tidak memungkinkan akan dilaksanakan secara daring. Pelaksanaan secara daring dilakukan mengingat guru-guru peserta PPG DalJab Universitas Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya tersebar di seluruh Wilayah Indonesia. Sedangkan untuk pelaksanaan secara luring dikhususkan peserta yang berada di wilayah Surabaya dan sekitarnya. Dengan demikian meskipun dilaksanakan secara luring atau daring tidak mengesampingkan esensi dari rencana kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat. Peserta dalam kegiatan ini berjumlah kurang lebih seratus lima puluh guru. Hasil dari kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat adalah peserta antusias dalam mengikuti keseluruhan rangkaian kegiatan, yang dibuktikan dengan banyaknya pertanyaan. Hasil yang diharapkan setelah kegiatan ini adalah meningkatkan kompetensi guru dalam menulis dan memublikasikan hasil penelitian yang telah dilakukanny

Does Quality Management in e-Learning System Improve lecturer performance in higher education?

Reason: The connection between Quality Management in e-Learning Systems and instructor execution draws a legitimate concern for specialists. It has not gotten critical consideration in the examination area of instructive administration up to this point. This paper intends to precisely examine the effect of Quality Management in e-Learning Systems on teacher execution in advanced education. Assessment and standards of value on the board and strategic exercises of e-learning frameworks. Satisfaction of criteria incorporates: 1) creative collaboration of the educational experience; 2) the e-growing experience (ELE); 3) connection innovation among educators and understudies; 4) ELE learning plan. The utilization of innovation gives a valuable chance to control understudy advancement during mentally and educationally versatile learning. It awards opportunities for learning, instructive change, and the nature of the information. It adds to the arrangement of expert abilities and fortifies acquiring direction. Discoveries express that Quality Management in e-Learning Systems in scholarly rankings altogether influences speaker execution. Portraying the association of instructors in instructive dynamic works on the exhibition of speakers and their associations. Among every segment variable, just scholastics fundamentally influence the presentation of teachers. Research suggestions expect the award framework and execution evaluation factors to impact the connection between Quality Management in e-Learning Systems and teacher execution. The exploration discoveries trust that the Indonesian government will promptly layout a Quality Management in the e-Learning System to work with better-quality execution in Indonesian advanced education. Innovation: Quality Management in e-Learning System is a device to adjust the association's vision and speaker execution objectives. The higher the degree of teacher interest in Quality Management in e-Learning Systems, the higher speakers' responsibility to the association's visio

SOFTSKILL LEARNING: CHARACTER BUILDING ON ETHICAL VALUES AND PERFORMANCE

Formation to build character in the digital era in the world of education through the development of ethical values and performance support to form the foundation of individual characters expected. Developments in the digital era influence individual lifestyles and patterns of relationships so as to form a new paradigm for helping human needs in carrying out the duties and expectations. The purpose of building character besides having benefits also have a negative impact can be described in the attitudes and behavior of individuals, which occurs demoralization. The method used in building individual character that balance the mind / creativity, feeling / sense of, and willingness / intention in executing their daily duties. The result is an imbalance in the event over them in carrying out daily activities using irrational thoughts, dishonest, irresponsible, did not have a good work ethic. How to cope with the character education should play an active role in shaping the students to have a good character, capable of being honest, responsible, disciplined, passionate, creative and communication skills to achieve success both socially and career aligned with technology development is very fast and sophisticated. The characters develop their conclusion to follow up the results of studies showing that the majority of a person in carrying out daily activities always use excessive feelings so that there is an imbalance between thought, feeling and will Keywords: Soft skill, Character Building, Ethical Values, and Performanc

How Research Skills Affect Indonesian Postgraduate Students Writing Outcomes: Publication Review

This research reviewed how research skills affect the writing results of Indonesian postgraduate students. As academics have understood it. the success of studying at the postgraduate level was closely related to the skills and abilities to research various content and contexts of the field of study. The researchers have conducted a data collection series consisting of literature searching, observation, and documentation to prove this assumption. Furthermore, data was analyzed by defining the research question, collecting answers by sharpening the correlation and comparison between the questions and answers or findings. Finally, the researchers interpret in-depth whether the findings were valid and reliable. The design used phenomenology approach. Considering the data and the analysis results, the researchers conclude that the skills and abilities to research Indonesian postgraduate students greatly influence each writing or lecture assessment's quality or outcome, including research activities, final semester assignments, and weekly assignments. Therefore, the findings have a meaningful input for postgraduate students and policymakers for studying in master and undergraduate programs in Indonesia. Keywords:  Research Skills, Writing Outcomes, Academic Study Revie

Pengembangan UMKM Melalui Peningkatan Pemasaran Produk Kripik Tempe di Desa Wonoharjo Kabupaten Tanggamus

Usaha Mikro, Kecil, dan Menengah (UMKM) terbukti memberikan kontribusi bagi perekonomian Indonesia. Permaslahan pada UMKM adalah keterbatasan modal kerja, kapasistas sumberdaya manusia yang sangat rendah dan minimnnya penguasaan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi yang secara umum berdampak pada prospek usaha. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengembangkan UMKM produk kripik tempe pada UMKM di desa Wonoharjo agar usaha yang dijalankan mampu bersaing di pasar dan semakin berkembang dimasa yang akan datang. Hasil dari kajian ini yaitu pengembangan produk UMKM untuk meningkatkan pemasaran melalui pengemasan produk yang menarik dan modern, pembinaan keterampilan sumber daya dan peningkatan pemasaran produk secara online

Environmental Caring Through Character Education In Vocational School

Purpose: This research aims to describe the character of environmental awareness of character education and finding model of the development of character strengthening. Design/methodology/approach: This method uses descriptive qualitative, data collection by in-depth interviews, surveys, observations, and documentation by observing the development of the character of environment. The data sources are principals, teachers, students, and parents. Efforts can be made by playing methods included in the curriculum for local content such as Ethics and Introduction to the Environment. The nature of concern for the environment will be increasingly imprinted if in addition to education at school while at home, parents of students also motivate, give advice and role models to care for the environment and will be more effective when collaborated formal and informal education. The data validity technique uses technique and source triangulation through data display, data reduction, and conclusion drawing. Finding: The results are 1) the development of the school curriculum includes self-development programs, integration in subjects, and school culture (school local content, living drug stores, parks, spaces and offices, inspiration to understudies, use of endowments and disciplines, and character advancement, caring , and Responsibility); 2) Input from stakeholders to strengthen environmental care character education for students; 3) The model of developing character of environmental care in vocational students. Research limitations/implications: Result of this research can be used as references to increase environmental caring through character education in vocational school Practical implications: The conclusion that Vocational Schools have implemented character education is the presence of strategies, ideas and nature-based learning, and the availability of supporting facilities and infrastructure. Paper type: Research Pape

Strengthening for Entrepreneurship Program of Sorghum Base as Food Alternative During the Pandemic Recovery Covid-19

The purpose of this research was to find a solution during the pandemic recovery covid-19 with the strengthening of alternative food entrepreneurship sorghum. The research method uses qualitative research methods in entrepreneurship, descriptive qualitative action research  with data collection techniques in the form of observation and documentation, after the data collected is then analyzed statistically descriptive. The results showed that sorghum can be used as a national food stock facing a crisis and pandemic covid-19, sorghum food stock in the form of grains, rice, flour, soft brand sorghum, and various processed sorghum. National sorghum food stock strategy includes strengthening clusters and production centers, silo utilization cooperation, socialization of various sorghum products, and strengthening Center of Sorghum Entrepreneur (CSE) and Sorghum Entrepreneurship Unit (SEU)

Merdeka Belajar Merdeka Mengajar

Kebijakan pemerintah “Merdeka Belajar, Kampus Merdeka” tentu menimbulkan respon tersendiri bagi para dosen selaku akademisi bagaimana menyikapi, merencanakan, menyusun dan mengimplementasikan sistem dan model belajar yang paling sesuai dengan kebijakan tersebut. Dan di buku Antologi inilah akan dijumpai berbagai pandangan, pemikiran, dan juga mungkin gambaran usulan untuk mengimplementasikan kebijakan MBKM di era informasi teknologi yang sangat cepat berubah dewasa ini. Sebagai pendidik profesional, para dosen tentu memiliki kiat dan cara tersendiri untuk bisa menghasilkan output lulusan peserta didik yang benar-benar sesuai dengan tujuan dan target kebijakan MBKM tersebu

Marketing Management Development for Training Improvement English Learning “Conversation Club”

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to find out how to manage marketing, increase the quantity of the “Conversation Club” learning training. Design/methodology/approach: This research approach is quantitative. The method used is observation, interviews, and documentation. Findings: The result of this research is marketing management training: conversation club neighborhood MSMEs using the marketing mix. The proposed model 1) establishes a correspondence network by utilizing WhatsApp bunches starting from the RT to the city level, 2) framing discussion clubs by collaborating with educational organizations, and 3) collaborating. with environmental MSMEs as a commercial center (marketplace). Gap Research in products: trainees create a generation of quality and achievers. Price: using the concept of the magnitude of the conclusion. Place: neighborhood MSMEs that can be applied in Surabaya or in-house training. Promotion: promoting the establishment and cooperation with environmental MSMEs as a commercial center (marketplace) and marketing by conducting socialization to stakeholders. Research limitations/implications: Data innovation time is a test for the public, have not been able to take advantage of this change due to the limited English language, especially for young people which is useful. Practical implications: The motivation behind this exploration is to identify the English learning model as a discussion club in Karang Taruna which will also serve as a commercial center (market) for the neighborhood MSMEs as a commercial center (market), and will serve as a pilot project for all Karang Taruna in Indonesia. Originality/value: This Paper is original Paper type: Research pape