Exploring effective learning resources affecting student behavior on distance education

Abstract

Learning Management System (LMS) is one of the online learning tool that used by one of private university in Indonesia. The private university began venturing into online learning, which more flexible for users, especially teachers and students. Online learning was implemented to build mutual knowledge, motivation, and communication for the sake of creating a collaborative and efficient learning environment and [1]–[6]. There were many perceptions about the form of effective online learning resources, which create an interesting teaching and learning process that engage and motivate students to learn. Currently, the most effective learning resources for students in online learning is still being debated. The contribution of this research was to discover the pattern of online learning users' behavior in Indonesia, especially students, find the most suitable and motivating learning resource for students, also improving the ease of learning material understanding. The research data was collected quantitatively using 730 students as a sample of the total 3870 students throughout the participants of online program, at one of a private university in Indonesia. Learning resources packaged in this among others: Lecture Note pdf-text, PowerPoints, Videos and Quizzes. In this paper, text-based has been found has a high role in motivating and facilitating for students to understand the material. The students believed both the learning resources have a relevance to the topics that covered in their courses, so that both learning resources become the main source of learning for students. Students regarded videos as additional resources, because it takes longer to understand the material in this type of sources.