Development of Information Technology

The development of information technology to improve performance and enable a variety of activities can be performed quickly, precisely and accurately, so that ultimately will improve productivity. Development of information technology show emergence of various types of activities based on this technology, such as e-government, e-commerce, e-education, e-medicine, e-laboratory, and others, all of which were based electronics.

Preliminary

Information Technology is a technology used to process the data, including the process, obtain, compile, store, manipulate data in various ways to produce high quality information, information that is relevant, accurate and timely, which is used for personal, business and government and is a strategic information for decision making. This technology uses a computer to process the data, the network system to connect one computer to another computer as needed, and telecommunications technology used for data and is accessible globally.

The role that can be given by the application of information technology is getting information to personal life such as information about health, hobbies, recreation, and spiritual. Then for professions such as science, technology, trade, business news, and professional associations. Means of cooperation between individuals or groups that one with another person or group without knowing the limits of distance and time, country, race, economic class, ideology or other factors that may inhibit exchange ideas.

Development of Information Technology spur a new way of life, from beginning to end of life, life is known as e-life, meaning life has been influenced by a variety of needs electronically. And now it is overflowing with a variety of letters that begin with the prefix e such as e-commerce, e-government, e-education, e-libraries, e-journal, e-medicine, e-laboratory, e-biodiversitiy, and still others are based electronics.

Evolution of the Global Economy

Until two hundred years ago the world economy is agrarian in which one of its main characteristics is the land is the most dominant factor of production. After the industrial revolution, with the invention of the steam engine, the global economy evolves toward industrial economy with its main characteristic is the capital as the most important factor of production. By the turn of the century now INL, humans tend to occupy a central place in the production process, because of the economic phase we are entering is based on knowledge (knowledge based) and focuses on information (information focused). In this case the role of telecommunications and informatics as a key technology (technology enabler.)

The progress of information technology and telecommunications so rapidly, allowing the implementation of new ways for more efficient production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. It is this process that brings people into the Society or Information Economy. This new society is also often referred to as post-industrial society.
Whatever its name, in the information age, physical distance or geographical distance is no longer a factor in human relations or inter-agency effort, so that the universe into a hamlet of the universe or the "Global village ‿. So often we hear the term "distance is dead" or "distance is dead" increasingly evident truth.

Role of Information Technology

In our lives in the future, information technology and telecommunications sector is the most dominant sector. Anyone who mastered this technology, then he will become a leader in the world. Information technology plays a role in many fields, among others:

1. Education (e-education).

Globalization has sparked a trend shift in education from the conventional face to face education toward a more open education (Mukhopadhyay M., 1995). As an example we saw in the French project "Flexible Learning ‿. This is reminiscent of Ivan Illich forecast early 70s about the "Education without schools (Deschooling Socieiy)" which in extreme teacher is no longer needed.
Bishop G. (1989) predicted that the future of education will be flexible (flexible), open, and can be accessed by anyone who needs without the view factor type, age, or previous educational experience.
R. Mason (1994) argues that the future of education will be determined by the network information that enables interaction and collaboration, rather than building schools. However, technology will continue to widen the gap between the rich and the poor.
Tony Bates (1995) states that technology can improve the quality and coverage when used wisely for the education and training, and has a meaning that is essential for economic prosperity.
Alisjahbana I. (1966) suggested that the approach to education and training will be "At that moment (Just on Time) ‿. New teaching techniques will be two way, collaborative, and inter-disciplinary.
Romiszowski & Mason (1996) predicts the use of "Computer-based Multimedia Communication (CMC) ‿ that are synchronous and asynchronous.
From the forecasts and views of scholars can be concluded that with the influence of globalization, the future of education will be more open and two-way, diverse, multidisciplinary, and related to the productivity of work "on the spot ‿ and competitive.With the development of information technology in education, so when it is already possible to place a distance learning using the internet to link between students and professor, saw the value of an online student, financial checks, view class schedules, send the tasks assigned faculty and so on, all it has to be done.

A major factor in distance learning that have been considered a problem is the lack of interaction between lecturers and students. However, with the internet media is very possible to make interaction between faculty and students both in the form of real time (real time) or not. In the form of real time can be done for example in a chatroom, a direct interaction with real audio or real video, and online meetings. That is not real time can be done with mailing lists, discussion groups, newsgroups, and bulletin board. With the above interaction of faculty and students in the class may be replaced even if not 100%. The forms of material, exams, quizzes and other educational ways can also be implemented into the web, such as teacher materials made in the form of presentations on the web and can be downloaded by students. Similarly, with exams and quizzes are created by faculty can also be done in the same way. Settlement administration can also be solved directly in a single registration process, more so in support with the online payment method.

A web-based distance education, among others, should have the following elements: (1) Center for student activities; as a web-based distance learning community must be able to make this facility as a place of student activity, where students can add the ability, reading course material, find information and so forth. (2) Interaction within the group; The students can interact with one another to discuss the materials provided by lecturers. Lecturers may be present in this group to give a little review of the material that gives. (3) student administration system, where the students can see information about student status, student achievement and so forth. (4) Deepening materials and examinations; Usually quis faculty often conduct brief and tasks aimed at deepening of what has been taught and do a test at the end of the study. It also can be anticipated by the web-based distance learning (5) digital library; In this section, there are a variety of information literature, not limited to books but also on digital libraries such as sound, images and so forth. This section is for support and shape of the database. (6) online material outside the course material; To support the lectures, required reading material also from other web. Hence in this section, lecturers and students to directly engage to provide other materials for publicizing to other students via the web.
To realize the above ideas and desires in a form of reality is not an easy job but if we look to other countries which have long developed a web-based distance learning, have a lot of institutions or agencies that use this method. Not only the skills possessed by the engineer who needed but also the various policies in education influenced its development. When viewed from the readiness of supporting facilities such as hardware, I suppose that this is no doubt. Only one who has always been a major concern of Internet users in Indonesia is the bandwidth problem, of course with limited bandwidth this is the comfort, especially on non-text based material.

In the global era, offering scholarships appeared on the internet. For most students in the world, the tuition fee to obtain the best education is generally still considered expensive. Very unfortunate if there is a clever student in his class can not continue school because not afford the tuition. Scholarship information is the key to success can no long these potential students.

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