Author: Fitriyani
From: Management of Higher Education, The Graduates School of Universitas Gadjah Mada
Abstract
The use of e-Learning in the learning process in higher education institution in Indonesia is currently experiencing a significant increase. E-learning as online learning patterns of behavior considered as determining how learners. The use of e-learning in the learning process is able to provide a better learning opportunities, enrich the teaching materials to be more vivid and realistic. This paper aims to identify the significance and the concept of cultural transformation in the optimization of the implementation of e-learning in the learning process in higher education institution. This study used descriptive qualitative approach. The results showed that the learning process that combines face to face and online learning requires a process of cultural transformation in learning through social determinism approach in order to obtain optimal benefits. The cultural transformation in values and behavior, including an appreciation of the value of efficiency, work ethic, ethos of learning and the development of self-learning culture. Therefore, these prerequisites must be fulfilled through policy and implementation program to improve learning and self-learning ethos. Without fulfilling these socio-cultural prerequisites, an e-learning implementation of the policy will only make learners become so unproductive consumer technology. Through social determinism approach, the learned behavior will occur because of the culture of collective learning.
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