Online Learning Design at Higher Education: An Example from Mathematics Classroom

Abstract

The rapid increase of technological consumption in many aspects has left educational institutions a great demand to apply it, including higher education. At higher education, the lecturers generally undertake the teaching and learning process out of class. In this case, one possible approach to facilitate this distant learning is through virtual classroom (online learning). The potential use of online learning rises the needs towards how it should be designed. Thus, this paper attempts to discuss about designing online learning that can help enhance student learning and make them engage with the content. An example of classroom implementation was depicted from Mathematics course. The data were collected through an analysis of developmental study conducted at two Indonesian universities. The results of this study indicate that there are four main concerns in designing constructive online learning (1) course arrangement; (2) content appearance; (3) collaborative and interactive; and (4) well-timed response.