Blended Learning Strategies as Knowledge Management in Underdeveloped Area

Abstract

This study was conducted in Bengkayang city, one of the underdeveloped districts and bordered by Malaysia that human resources have poor knowledge, hard skills, and soft skills such as computer, mathematics, language skills and spiritual. This study investigates the blended learning strategies as knowledge transfer in higher education in an underdeveloped area that we present the result from 6 final year student's blended learning experience, and 117 students who registered at higher education. Methodological trends described in the term qualitative phenomenology of 3 final year student's blended learning experience by Moustakas. The result of this study shows that the implementation of blended learning strategies influenced by local wisdom, learning style, and learning methods. The local wisdom such as communal, the availability of food in nature affects the lifestyle of students; learning style such as visual, auditory, and kinesthetic affects how the students learn; and learning methods such as drill method affects study habits and increase student knowledge.