SUMMARY
Advancement of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is currently
bringing a change in people's lives. The role of information and communication
technologies increasingly felt in various sectors, including in the education sector.
In the education sector, the role of information and communication technology is
expected to improve the quality of education as one of the pillars nation building.
Improving the quality of education to be a priority with the awareness that the
successful development of a nation in the future is highly dependent on the quality
of education.
In today's era where technology, especially the Internet is growing, the learning
process is no longer only be done conventionally by the method just of face to
face. The learning process can be done with the online course format, where
teachers and students do not need to meet directly but can do off-line or virtual
meetings. All that the rapid technological developments that have an impact on the
social networking easy and secure access to information and interact directly
without the limits of space and time.
For that in order to improve the quality of education, especially college, the
Ministry of Education and Culture (Kemdikbud) establish a program Indonesia
Open Online Learning and Integrated (PDITT). Kemdikbud through the
Directorate General of Higher Education (Higher Education) along with several
college participated to organize lectures online as real action to improve the
quality of lectures at college. In the short term Kemdikbud seeks to improve the
quality of college perkuliah implemented through the network to be realized as an
online course.
Unfortunately, this program is intended only to students with specific
requirements in order to be able to follow the course of this online. From it be
born the idea that online classes can also be followed by anyone who wants to
learn. The method used is Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), with MOOCs
anyone can follow the learning process and the material provided is open. Not
only that the registration process is made as easy as possible so that anyone can
easily join. Platform, content, or teaching materials made as creative and
innovative as possible throughout as well as the integration between the platform
with social networking sites to make it more interesting.
So many people are expected to join and are interested in following the teaching
and learning process. As more and more people who participate learn it is
expected also not only the just quality of education to improved, but rather the
quality of individual skills can also be improved so that Indonesia can compete
globally