EFFECTIVENESS OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

Abstract

This study is aimed at finding out the level of effectiveness of every organizational institution, that is challenged to continue to encourage practitioners and their employees to improve their knowledge and work skills because competition is getting tougher. If practitioners and staff have up-to-date work knowledge and skills, work productivity will increase. To achieve this, staff knowledge and skills must be updated consistently. One method that is considered effective in achieving this goal is to organize education and training activities in accordance with their respective fields of work. It is very important for the leaders of educational institutions to make efficiency and effectiveness an ideology in managing educational institutions. Starting from careful planning, then the paradigm from grounded input to grounded affair and outgrowth, and applying a performance-based management approach (performance grounded operation). Three strategies for educational efficiency and effectiveness, namely (1) resource sharing (2) process integration; (3) a touch of information technology (information technology). Education Personnel Education Institutions established by the government to implement a program to accelerate the fulfillment of academic qualifications, includes sharing of resources such as: (a) educational unit facilities; (b) the utilization of educators and education staff, such as exchanging lecturers; and (c) sharing learning materials and internet access, such as the use of learning modules.