Problem-based learning (PBL) in industry 4.0: Improving learning quality through character-based literacy learning and life career skill (LL-LCS)

Abstract

The rapid flow of globalization should be absorbed and implemented in education, especially learning. The industry 4.0 era and millennial, 21st Century Education, and Sustainable Development Goals are intended for the purpose of learning and innovation skills. The researchers’ objective is to improve the quality of learning by applying the literacy movement, character values as a provision for life and career skills using the PBL method in the gasoline engine curriculum. The research method is classroom action research with the Elliot action model carried out in two cycles. A total of 34 students with ages ± 19-22 were used as research samples. The results obtained during the study showed an increase, namely: (a) the literacy movement was observed as successfully implemented with an increase of 19.1%; (b) inducing character values improves student behavior by 14.8%, and (c) strengthening competency in the gasoline motorbike curriculum by 11.3%. Problems in the engineering field that are packaged in PBL classes through student literacy and character movements are some forms of learning innovation that need to be applied to similar competencies.