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.

The purpose of the present study was to elaborate the effect of providing the constructive feedback to open and distant students who enrolled in the online learning program. The participants were 30 students who studied in eight sessions of the online course. They had to discuss course content in available chat forum of the Learning LMS and complete written assignments. The constructive feedback with some characteristics - specific and actionable; descriptive and helpful; showing respect; address to issues and tasks; and provide dialogue - were immediately provided by the tutors on the students’ discussion and their written assignments. Pre-test and post-test sessions were implemented to get information regarding the influence of constructive feedback on students’ cognitive aspects. In addition, the online interview session was also applied to gather the information concerning the impact of the constructive feedback provision on students’ motivational aspects. It is therefore concluded that the provision of constructive feedback student’s motivation and knowledge while they were participating in online learning program.   Keywords: Constructive feedback; online learning; learning achievement;

The advanced development of information and communication technologybrings a significant impact on the way of how human learn. The e-learning orInternet-based and online learning has been widely used in a variety of learning activities as a suplement to the conventional in-class learning, flipped classroom etc. The term e-learning refers to learning activities conducted by the use ofInternet. Universitas Terbuka (UT) utilizes e-learning program in the form of online tutorial. The online tutorial is basically a form of learning support provided by UT to facilitate student to learn. The online tutorial consists of three major learning activities including reading, discussion and assignment. During online tutorial student must complete the assigned activities and interaction with peers, tutor and digital learning resources. Online tutorial can be seen as an instrumental tool that provide an opportunity for students to expandhis/her knowledge and skills beyond the provided printed and digital module. Tutors should be able to design online learning programs that can be used to facilitate students in expanding their knowledge and skills. The purpose of this study is to elaborate conceptually the use of constructivism learning theory in online tutorial of the open and distance learning higher institution.

The aim of this research is to develop a model of tutorial delivered through video conference. A formative evaluation model of Dick, Carey and Carey was implemented in this developmental research. This model of formative consists of some systematic phases such as: need analysis, designing a prototype of the program, one-to-one try out with individual student and small group evaluation. The result of the study reveals that the video conference learning materials should be designed and developed based on several factors instructional objectives, potential of the video conference as a delivery system, course characterstics and instructional media support. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengembangkan model tutorial disampaikan melalui video conference. Sebuah model evaluasi formatif dari Dick, Carey dan Carey dilaksanakan dalam penelitian perkembangan ini. Model formatif terdiri dari beberapa tahap sistematis seperti: analisis kebutuhan, merancang prototipe program, satu-ke-satu mencoba dengan individu siswa dan evaluasi kelompok kecil. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa bahan pembelajaran video conference harus dirancang dan dikembangkan berdasarkan beberapa faktor - tujuan instruksional, potensi konferensi video sebagai sistem pengiriman, tentu saja characterstics dan instruksional dukungan media.

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menggambarkan kegigihan miring peserta didik jarak jauh yang berdomisili di wilayah kepulauan Indonesia-pulau Maluku. 24 siswa pembelajaran jarak jauh yang tinggal di Pulau Maluku berpartisipasi dalam penelitian ini. Pendekatan kualitatif diterapkan dalam penelitian ini. Observasi dan wawancara jarak jauh digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data dan informasi yang diperlukan terkait dengan tingkat motivasi dan ketekunan belajar para peserta. Studi ini menemukan bahwa siswa pembelajaran jarak jauh yang tinggal di Pulau Maluku pada umumnya mengalami kesulitan dalam mendapatkan materi pembelajaran dan mempersiapkan ujian belajar mereka. Namun demikian, kurangnya fasilitas belajar tidak membuat ketekunan mereka yang condong rendah dalam mencapai harapan studi mereka. Dengan kata lain, mereka masih memiliki ketekunan dan motivasi belajar yang tinggi untuk menyelesaikan studi mereka di Universitas Terbuka (UT).