Journal of Educational Science and Technology
Volume 4 Number 1 April 2018 page 12- 25
p-ISSN:2460-1497 and e-ISSN: 2477-3840
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26858/est.v4i1.4974
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Lecturer’s Attitude towards Advance Technology and Its Impact to the Learning
Process: Case study in Tangerang City Campuses
Harisa Mardiana
Study Program Information Technology
Faculty of Science and Technology, Universitas Buddhi Dharma, Tangerang
Email: harisa.mardiana@buddhidharma.ac.id
©2018 –EST Graduate Program Universitas Negeri Makassar. This is an article with open
access under license CC BY-NC-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ).
ABSTRACT
This research aimed to determine the qualifications of lecturers in the field of social
science depended on the use of advance technology, especially the power points, the
Internet, and social media site. The problem that some of the lecturers preferred to use
the traditional way of teaching, such as whiteboard and marker, lectures. This study
research was to observe the categories of lecturers’ knowledge, ages and gender in using
technology in the classroom. Also we sought lecturers’ difficulty in using technology to
conduct the teaching and learning process in the classroom. The research design in this
study was a quantitative method, with giving questionnaires to 107 lecturers in
Tangerang City campuses. Data collection technique was taken by conducting
observation, questionnaires and interview and data analysis. The result of this study
research showed that there are 5 categories of lecturers’ attitudes towards advance
technology based on their knowledge, ages and gender. And the purpose of the study
research is to give an opportunity to increase lecturers’ qualifications for 2st century
learning process and to leverage advance technology in campuses which it is to deliver
contents and to engage students and lecturers learning process in ways not previously
possible.
Keywords: quality of lecturers; advanced technology; lecturers’ categories; teaching and
learning process
INTRODUCTION
As technology plays important role in
education in which it can develop characters,
quality of life, sharpen the people knowledge, all
educators, students have to know the technology
to support their learning process. The traditional
face to face lecture included a number of
diagrams on overhead transparencies that
needed quite a bit of explanation by the lecturer
has been abandoned as the need for independent
and creative teaching and mastery in teaching
method; techniques and knowledge have
become more demanding for lecturers. These
two dimensional line drawings limited because
they represented three dimensional objects in the
real world that moved and changed (Atkinson &
Wilmot, 2001).
However, the problems faced by
Indonesian in the field of education today is the
unequal distribution of educational opportunities
for all people, the difference between education
in the village with the city, many people are
illiterate, low productivity of its citizens and the
(Received: January-2018; Reviewed: February-2018; Accepted: February-2018; Published: Maret-2018)