Digital Learning Challenge in Indonesia

Digital Learning Challenge in Indonesia

Adhi Prasetio, Grisna Anggadwita, Rina D. Pasaribu
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4972-8.ch004
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Abstract

Industry Education Reform 4.0 was launched by the Indonesian government as one of nine priority agendas called Nawa Cita. The reform consists of two main programs: first, to improve the quality of life of Indonesian people through improving the quality of education and training and, second, to revolutionize the nation's character through the policy of restructuring the national education curriculum. There are challenges though to implement those programs including Indonesian geographic, gap to access different level of education, and the gap to achieve the Industrial Revolution 4.0 skills. The aims of this chapter are to explore alternatives and solutions for access to education in Indonesia by utilizing technological advancements including the skills needed to face the current digital era. Education 4.0 is a good approach to answer those challenges. The use of internet technology for digital learning can provide access to students spread across the country. This approach requires skills set that are appropriate to Industry 4.0 by providing a flexible curriculum and online certification.
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Digital Learning

Some scholars call today's young generation people who have grown up with computers, video games, the Internet, and cell phones, or so-called 'Digital Natives' (Gasser & Palfrey, 2008; Prensky, 2001; Burdick & Willis, 2011). This affects social practice, learning styles, and cognition, because of their initial and constant involvement with information technology. As a result, digital learning requires radical reworking of pedagogy to accommodate learners who are bricoleurs: they can gather information from various sources, intuitive visual communicators, have strong visual-spatial skills and learn best through inductive discovery (Burdick & Willis, 2011).

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