Online Course: Media Empowering in Education Process

AbstractThe development of information technology is growing rapidly, thus change the community paradigm in finding and getting information. Increasing needs of information technology and communication occur in education sector, including at Padjadjaran University which since 2003 has pioneered the implementation of e-Learning as one method of online learning. In the period of 2010-2011 more than 149 lecturers had attended LMS Moodletraining with 296 online courses.Online courses do not eliminate the meetings of lecturers and students in the class, because face-to- face inthe classroom between lecturers and students are still needed for getting immediate feedback and humantouch which is difficult to obtain by using media such as internet. Thus, the blended learning method isthe most ideal way