Revitalization of Cooperation Character for Students Through Engineering Service Learning in the Digital Age

Abstract

Education has become one of the strategic ways in revitalizing the character of students to form the character of learners having a personal character of the 21st century, such as teenagers must have the ability to cooperate, have personal and social responsibilities, and be able to communicate interactively. Besides, they must be able to balance technological progress and social change, have leadership character, personal responsibility, and ethics. It becomes the driving force that the education process in the formal education path must consistently involve the affective domain and not just focus on the cognitive and psychomotor aspects. This research is a development of Brog and Gall research that learning in the 21st century requires an affective touch. This study uses a quantitative approach and descriptive method with data analysis techniques with descriptive statistics. The population is Indonesian and Korean students who take Engineering Service Learning with the number of 30 people. The results of this study indicate that the Engineering Service Learning process can build critical and creative thinking by 90.25%; increase motivation by 90.51%; and build cooperation character by 85.71%.