INCLUSIVE ONLINE LEARNING DESIGN FOR UT’S STUDENT IN REMOTE AREAS (A CASE STUDY OF PROVIDING A LOCAL HOTSPOT SERVICE IN THE INTERNET BLANK SPOT AREA OF INDONESIA)

Abstract

This project focuses on providing online learning supports for UT’s students living in remote areas. As Internet access is still a privilege for UT’s students living in many remote areas of Indonesia, many of them encounter difficulties accessing UT’s online services due to lack of a reliable Internet access. This has widened the discrepancies of online learning equality among UT’s students. To address this inequality, this project aims at firstly, to develop a local hotspot area to enable UT’s students in remote area to access UT’s Online support services. This local hotspot service is very beneficial for UT students to give them online learning experiences that are expected to increase their study success. As most of the remote areas have limitations of the infrastructures including power supply and bandwidth, there needs a minimum requirement of the local hotspot services to provide access to UT’s Online support services. Secondly, it aims to develop a learning design that needs to be adapted to support a low bandwidth capacity. By using offline Moodle platform service, the online support services are designed with the adaptive features. The adaptive features of the learning management system include discussion forums, feedback of formative tests, student learning progress, and collaborative apps.