Digital Competence and Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown educational institutions and educational staff and students how important digital skills are when the learning process has to be done online. Most of the teaching staff are still foreign and not familiar with digital devices in supporting the distance learning process. Not only that, some of the teaching staff are still not used to and get used to using digital devices in the face-to-face learning process. The learning method tends to focus on the traditional lecture and discussion method without being mediated by digital devices. The problem is when teaching staff do not have adequate digital competence and are not supported by adequate digital devices in most educational institutions, especially in remote areas.

The Industrial Revolution 4.0 (4IR) has arrived and has been dubbed as a new disruptor in emerging technologies and software in the industrial world to develop a user perspective with the latest gadgets and ways of doing things, however, little thought has been made to involve digital skills for lecturers/teaching staff and students. As a result, learning methods become very stagnant and monotonous, lack of direct participation from users in information system design compared to traditional engineering-oriented system designs.