Indonesia Open University (UT: Universitas Terbuka) is a large, open university delivering distance education to students throughout Indonesia. An important aspect of its mission is to provide opportunities for Indonesian teachers to improve their education in-service. This includes two courses on classroom action research. In order to assess the effectiveness of these courses and, if necessary, improve them, a team of lecturers from UT conducted an investigation of the challenges teachers were facing in learning to conduct classroom action research through the UT modules. The team found that the modules did not adequately reflect an understanding of the actual characteristics of the teachers they were serving and were thus less effective than they might be in teaching teachers to conduct classroom action research. Changes in both the content and scheduling of the modules are recommended in order to more effectively promote classroom action research in Indonesian schools. AbstrakUniversitas Terbuka atau UT merupakan universitas besar yang menyelenggarakan pendidikan jarak jauh untuk mahasiswa di berbagai penjuru Indonesia. Aspek terpenting dari misi UT adalah menyediakan kesempatan kepada para guru Indonesia untuk meningkatkan kualitas pengabdian mereka di dunia pendidikan. Materi yang ditawarkan UT termasuk dua mata kuliah tentang penelitian tindakan kelas. Dalam rangka mengevaluasi efektifitas kelas ini, dan memperbaikinya jika perlu, tim dosen dari UT meneliti kendala yang dihadapi para guru dalam belajar melakukan penelitian tindakan kelas melalui modul UT. Tim menyimpulkan, modul kelas ini tidak merefleksikan pemahaman yang cukup tentang karakterisktik riil para guru yang diajar, dan karena itu, kurang efektif untuk dijadikan acuan mengajar penelitian tindakan kelas. Tim menyarankan beberapa perubahan pada isi dan penjadwalan modul, guna lebih mengefektifkan kampanye penelitian tindakan kelas di sekolah-sekolah di Indonesia.

Environmental literacy skills are also very important characters that should be learned by people since their early age. It is believed that some knowledge if learned by people since they are in early ages, the knowledge can become habit and it will stay in the people mind and heart for a long time. The current study investigates some perceptions perceived by early childhood education teachers in teaching environmental education in this pandemic situation. The study employed 15 early childhood teachers as the samples with the semi-structured interviews as the research instrument. The data collection period took four (4) months in 2020. Content analysis was employed to analyze the data in the current study. The obtained data was validated by the members of the faculty. Findings from the study showed that early childhood teachers have already used some teaching strategies to help their early students to be environmental literacy. The teaching strategies used by the teachers varies from one to another. The study implied that even though early students have to learn at home but their early education teachers can still teach them to maintain and preserve their environmental.

There are massive changes in many aspects of our life that affect our life such as in the way we learn. Universitas Terbuka (UT) is a distance education university that often uses technology for its teaching and learning activities such as online tutorial. Basically, UT students" do not meet their lecturers face to face every day. Being UT students require UT students to learn independently by reading UT learning printed materials by themselves. Moreover, UT"s online tutorials are provided to help UT students in understanding their course materials. In order to investigate why and how online tutorials can help UT students while learning at a distance, so the researcher conducted this study. In addition, in this study, the researcher tried to explore how participating in online tutorial can help UT students to become more active in their learning. This study was used in the Professionalism of early childhood teachers online tutorial course. The research method for thus study was using descriptive qualitative method using online open questions which were sent to 286 participants. The data were analyzed using descriptive qualitative data analysis. Only 55 students from 286 online tutorial participants who answered the questions. The results of this study were 1. participating in online tutorial apparently can be a way to help the students understanding the course material, 2. Participating in online tutorial can motivate and help UT students to be more active in their learning and 3. By learning online, students learn to get used with computers and internet.

This research was conducted to determine the effect of leadership style and work environment on the work motivation of public housing, residential area, and land affairs officials in Merauke district with work discipline as an intervening variable. The research approach used is quantitative, using the Smart PLS statistical tool. The population in this study were all 120 employees of the Public Housing, Settlement Area, and Land Office of Merauke Regency, but only 105 questionnaires could be analyzed further so that the sample in this study totaled 105 samples. The results of the study show that leadership has a negative and insignificant effect on motivation. Leadership has a negative and insignificant effect on work discipline. Discipline mediates positively and not significantly between leadership variables on work motivation. The work environment has a negative and significant effect on work motivation but a positive and significant effect on work discipline. Discipline mediates a negative and significant relationship between the work environment and significant to work motivation. Meanwhile, discipline has a negative and significant effect on the work motivation of employees of the Public Housing, Settlement Areas and Land Affairs Office of Merauke Regency.

Household waste continues to grow daily, forcing the Indonesian government to start thinking about a good management strategy that will not damage the environment or harm the community. A two-fold increase in waste is very likely to occur if there are no strict policies for waste that result in environmental and ecosystem pollution. Waste is not only a big city problem. Each district/city in each province has the same problems in handling waste. For example, in Bogor Regency, approximately 2,800 tons of waste must be managed and transported daily. However, only about 700 tons of waste can be transported and managed by the local government. This condition was also found at SDN Putat Nutug, Bogor Regency. Waste management at SDN Putat Nutug 03 Ciseeng, Bogor Regency, still relies on traditional methods, namely burning. Garbage-burning activities that do not comply with this procedure can cause problems such as air pollution. This community service activity aims to increase students' knowledge and skills through hands-on sorting, processing, and managing waste. The practical activities of waste processing are divided into two parts: the presentation of theory and education regarding waste and how to process it and the practical activities of waste processing with the 3R method. The activity results in environmentally friendly products from plastic waste, showing that the 3R method interests’ students. Hopefully, in the future, schools that apply the 3R method will increase the method of waste management so that the waste problem can be reduced slowly