Strategy for Student Learning Center Environment Based on eLearning and Blogs

1. INTRODUCTION
Education is a primary necessity early adulthood should be felt by the whole community. Education also the vital variable for the developing a nation. A nation could move forward compare to others countries because the spread of knowledge on the country. Knowledge developed in line with the needs and challenges for the better future. The most responsible institutions for spreading the knowledge is education institutions. Era of globalization, the requirement with the development of information technology (IT) makes the world of education must adopt and involve IT in the learning process. In fact, the current students were born in digital era where technology has become their close friend from first supporting environment for them. The main focus of this paper is IT based education.
This paper offers the strategy scheme of student learning centre by making use of e-learning and blog. E-learning has changed the phenomenon of learning become placeless, boarderless and timeless. One of the most desired characteristics of an e-learning system is personalization, as people with different skill sets use the system [1]. Furthermore, internet-based distance learning has typically been asynchronous, multimedia enhanced, and learner centred/directed [2]. Major benefits of e-learning included the ease of access to resources, and the provision of central area for students to access to find information or comprehensive resources pertaining to each module [3]. Students able to ask the problem related to the course material any time, triger student to learn independently or self-learning, and to use e-learning pedagogical tools [4]. The combination of web based technologies and powerful internet connections provide various new pos...

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... political, economic, social and technological factors [21]. And some characteristics of resources that may promote changes in e-learning practice [22]. But less researches involve institutions regulation, and competition as important aspect in conducting blended learning environment and related to economic aspect.

Figure 1. Blended e-Learning scheme

The combination of these two media provides center environment for student learning. E-learning is the activity where the learning atmosphere involved lecturers and students. Lecturers are able to disseminate the knowledge (learning materials) to the students. On the other hand, students also able to participate in learning scenario, submit their assignments, give comments, or discuss with their colleagues. The rest of this paper will discuss methods (section 2), discussions (section 3), and conclusions (section 4).