ANALYSIS OF CONTENT AND INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN OF OPEN AND DISTANCE TEACHING MATERIAL
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2014-06-11
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Conference On Professional Development In Education (PDE2014), Widyatama University Indonesia, Open University Indonesia and Open University Malaysia
Abstract
Teaching material is a very important aspect in the open and distance higher education The material in the open
and distance higher education can be used to replace the role of lecturer. Therefore, the teaching material on
open and distance higher education must have complete, updated material and the adequate instructional design.
The purpose of this research is to analyze the feasibility of instructional content and design of teaching material
on the Environmental Education course on Faculty of Education and Teacher Training of Universitas
Terbuka. The study is limited only on 2 modules from the teaching material; module 2 on Human Being,
Energy, and Natural Resource, and module 7 on Ethics of Environment. Those two modules were presented to
3 experts in its field and 1 expert of instructional media/design to analyze in terms of feasibility, instructional
content, and design based on their expertise. The study of material by the expert was done by giving the
comment directly to the teaching material and through the assessment form of teaching material that was
provided. To understand the result of study by expert more comprehensive, the interview was also conducted.
The collected data were analyzed by using the descriptive-qualitative technique. The result of research shows
that the material of those two modules was not adequate anymore to use as the teaching material for distance
education in terms of the lack of revision of its content and its instructional design.
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Content, instructional design, environmental education, open and distance higher education