The Impact of the Experiential Learning Model on Increasing Digital Skills for Employees

Abstract

Objective: This experimental study aims to find out which training model is more appropriate to use in preparing employees who have digital skills in a shorter. The purpose of this research are knowing a more appropriate training model for the preparation of employee digital skills and knowing the impact of the experiential learning model on increasing the digital skills for employee, namely Enterprise Architecture and Database & Programming Knowledge. Methods: This research was conducted using experiments study, conducted in 2 (two) groups where group A will receive learning treatment using conventional learning models as the control and group B will receive learning using experiential learning models as the experiment. The findings for the research are that there are differences in all aspects of digital skills between group experiment and group control. Experiential Learning learning models have an impact on increasing employee digital skills, especially on aspects of Database & Programming Knowledge Results: The dependent variable in this study was the gain score differences in the aspects of Enterprise Architecture and Database & Programming Knowledge of the employees. The calculation results of the central size (mean and standard deviation) for gain scores data in both aspects of Enterprise Architecture and Database & Programming Knowledge. To test the research hypothesis, the assumption test was first carried out as a prerequisite for hypothesis testing, namely the data distribution normality test, the covariance variance homogeneity test, and the dependent variable intercorrelation test. The normality test in this study was conducted using Kolmogorov Smirnov statistics. Conclusion: There are differences in all aspects of digital skills between employees who learn with the experiential learning model and employees who learn with the conventional learning model. There is no difference in the aspects of digital skills Enterprise Architecture between employees who learn with experiential learning models and employees who learn with conventional learning models.