THE IMPACT OF DISTANCE LEARNING SKILLS TRAINING AND MOTIVATION ON ASSESSMENT

Abstract

This study shows that the number of new students who enroll in the Open University increased by 10% during one semester, while the number of students who re-enroll decreased by 15%. The Open University offers an attractive distance education program for new students. based on the phenomenon of distance learning, which has become a topic of discussion for many students. Students experience increased anxiety and stress as a result of their ignorance of distance learning methods. The Open University has a strategy to introduce distance learning success support services (LPKBJJ) to overcome this problem. The results of the study showed that distance training, which was intended to help students create effective learning strategies and increase their confidence in distance learning, had a positive and significant impact of 0.05. The purpose of this study was to evaluate how learning skills training and student motivation affect their academic achievement at the Open University (case study of UT Medan students). The results of the distance learning skills training hypothesis have a positive effect and 95 percent affect the assessment. The results of the learning motivation hypothesis also have a positive effect. Increasing learning motivation by ten units will have an impact on increasing the assessment by 1.4 percent.