The Use of Mind Mapping Approach to Facilitate Students’ Distance Learning in Writing Modular Based on Printed Learning Materials

Benny Agus Pribadi,Rudi Susilana

doi:10.12973/eu-jer.10.2.907

Abstract

<p style="text-align:justify">The study is intended to expose mind mapping used as strategy for learning which is able to assist students to write their writing assignments. Thirty students who registered in the Teacher Qualification Improvement Program of Universitas Terbuka (UT) was involved as the participants in this present study. The participants had to follow the face-to-face tutorial session of the Instructional System Design course (ISD) course. One of the given assignments of the course was writing the modular based learning materials for the primary school students. The participants had to study the required knowledge and skills of writing the printed modular based learning materials through the systematic and systematic ways. The mind mapping strategy was used to help the students to complete their writing assignments – the printed modular based leaning resources. At the beginning the participants felt uncertain about the writing assignment. The study was found that the use of mind mapping as learning strategy increased the students learning motivation and improve the ability to write the printed modular based learning materials.</p>

Highlights

Universitas Terbuka (UT) offers an educational program to improve the qualification of the primary school teachers
Lay out, Visual illustrations, & physical quality Project is edited with only quality for printed clarity
Regarding to data analysis based on the rubrics above, it uses the type of holistic one where single criteria rubrics used to assess participants' overall achievement on an activity or item based on predefined achievement levels; performance descriptions are written in paragraphs and usually in full sentences

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Introduction

Universitas Terbuka (UT) offers an educational program to improve the qualification of the primary school teachers. The government of the Indonesia provided a wide opportunity for the primary school teachers to enhance their teaching and instructional competencies. This teacher qualification improvement program is conducted through the distant learning system which requires the students to implement the self-directed learning approach. The course offers the students the knowledge and skills in analyzing, designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating instructional and learning program. The aim of this course is to teach the students to be competent in planning and producing an effective and efficient instructional and learning program for the primary school students

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