Development of virtual learning community through my buddy school system

Abstract

As a country with high biodiversity and social community, Indonesian students face differences in learning quality. Students' competencies in rural and urban areas also become a separate problem. With the nature and social conditions of each, students in rural and urban areas have different abilities, hence need peer learning to share knowledge between rural and urban school. Indonesia needs various innovations to solve learning and education problems. One of the solutions to bridge this problem is by developing information systems that can be used by students in villages and cities. Through peer learning, it is expected to improve students' knowledge and skills because the learning design is more natural. In this paper, My Buddy School system is designed and developed to support self-regulated learning and peer learning course. The development method used the ADDIE model (Analyze, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation). We applied explicit evaluation using some questionnaires and interview to 22 junior high school students that have already used the developed system. The result shows that user experience score and student's respond from the interview session indicate that the system is good; therefore, an improvement is needed. For the future works, we proposed a user-centered design method to gain a greater score of user experience.