International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) – eISSN: 1865-7923 – Vol. 15, No. 12, 2021 Short Paper—Professional Skills Development Through the Network Learning Community Using an... Professional Skills Development Through the Network Learning Community Using an Online Learning Platform https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v15i12.21587 Muhammad Ashar (*), Waras Kamdi, Dediek Tri Kurniawan Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia muhammad.ashar.ft@um.ac.id Abstract—Networked learning Community (NLC) that integrates a profes- sional context into the learning experience that uses learning networks to pro- mote self-efficacy and skill to learn. There are three ways for teaching integrate in online learning. Firstly, personal learning networks to focusing of activities,. secondly, live streaming and online based learning communities. Finally, im- mersive skills and experience mastery for expert. Based on the hypotheses of the NLC thinking on online learning service users, it can help self-development skillfully and with high self-confidence in using a personalized learning plat- form. Meanwhile networking for learning with professionals will strengthen. In- fluence on skills and experiences on self-achievement through learning experi- ences that are suitable for oneself and then become professionals through learn- ing in today's digital era. An NLC that follows the pattern and mission of 21st century learning is the way to go for scaling up efforts to redesign academies that offer skills with a forum for broad but personal learning. The live streaming technique in the learning process in online media has a significant impact in monitoring and monitoring one-on-one learners' abilities. Learning outcomes can be easily corrected and evaluated by relevant experts so that the work can be used as a good portfolio. In the application of the NLC the target output is that there is a promotion mechanism for students to the industrial world by bringing together professional companies and / or developing entrepreneurship with the addition of business training to the relevant NLC. The results of the platform development show that the flow and process of improving skills and professional learning with the community in one field of multimedia industry is getting better. Keywords—Networked Learning Community, 21st century learning, multime- dia industry, live streaming media 1 Introduction Education is one indicator of the development of a country's civilization. Through education, human beings will continue to develop in accordance with the demands of the global world, with education the windows of the world will be opened so that it 202 http://www.i-jim.org Short Paper—Professional Skills Development Through the Network Learning Community Using an... will be clear that in the world all knowledge will be revealed in a real way. However, in reality education in Indonesia still needs to be improved, especially in learning in the era of networked learning. Learning that should be focused on the speed of under- standing the concept optimally in a short time with interactive digital content online and live streaming. Modeling of the principles of networked learning (networked learning community) who get opportunities for learning opportunities and receive analytical feedback on work assignments at. Dimension of the networked learning model is the relationship between the three knowledge areas: (1) Practitioners of knowledge of what others understand in the online learning process on the platform used, (2) theoretically available public knowledge from existing research to be included in the online learning environment); (3) New knowledge that can be created collaboratively and well monitored. Through network-based activities and classroom use [21] state in their recent publication on "Connecting school knowledge and university knowledge, they (networks) find a way for human knowledge (knowledge created by lecturers on assignments) to informing outside knowledge "(the knowledge of researchers and policy makers), and vice versa. Meanwhile, [4] are consistent with the challenges of an increasingly knowledge-based era, which triggers new ways of learning that involve leveraging multiple perspectives into shared group or group intelligence and integrating new theories, competencies, capacities and practices with each other. The view of learning in a networked learning community although there is nothing new about the network of lecturers or teachers, university leaders or school principals, and campuses or schools have long been involved with each other in the form of col- laborative activities. However, there is something fundamentally more purposeful and aspirational about the notion of "collaborative capacity", as it is considered part of the future innovation, development and knowledge management architecture of systems on campus or school. The Networked Learning Communities program in the UK is a large-scale devel- opment and inquiry initiative involving 137 networks (1,500 schools) between 2002 and 2006. It is specifically designed to provide policy and learning systems (practices) on network design and implementation, facilitation and leadership issues, system support, and incentives. Evidence results on how and under what conditions networks can contribute to improving student achievement on leadership practices that prove to be the strongest potential school-to-school learning and about the emerging new rela- tionships between networks as engagement units and Local Authority partners. The development of networked learning with a community of users who simulta- neously responds to online learning and live streaming is used on the academy plat- form in the multimedia industry field with education towards work professionals in industry or companies through link and match and business through sharing content with a Stratup model. The development of the platform is mainly designed by means of a Smart Learning Management System by testing the usability of the system and the feasibility of users with an intermediate level, while tutors are selected with high professional skills (advanced). System policies using AI algorithms place priority automatically on the results of learning reviews and evaluations through points of interest (POI) by clustering users into two professional groups (high skills for industry and good skills for business) [18]. iJIM ‒ Vol. 15, No. 12, 2021 203 Short Paper—Professional Skills Development Through the Network Learning Community Using an... In the field of study, improving Networked Learning Communities with an open platform to recruit professional workers supported by a live streaming and online learning NLC platform using the design thinking method testing and the User Ac- ceptance Test model in testing the feasibility of this NLC application in order to find out what potential users are interested in. and other visitors to take advantage of the features as a potential for increasing understanding of the concepts on the courses offered [22]. The research contribution is expected that the results of this research can be used as research products implemented on the new NLC platform, the development of this platform in various campuses, cities and regions that have adequate ICT facilities and infrastructure. 2 Literature Review Model for networked learning [12] as a way of accessing and describing the characteristic components of network activity. Learning network with architecture as in the following image: Collaborative groups to work and learn together engage in contributions with a common goal. This joint activity provides focus, strength and purpose to the network. Here are six strands of the basic framework for a networked learning community design: a) Student learning - Pedagogical focus b) Adult learning - A major aspiration professional learning community c) Leadership learning - At all levels d) Organizational learning - The new organizational learning norm e) School- learning to school - Network learning f) Network-to-network learning - Lateral systems learning Each network is also chosen to have at least one external partner. One for collaboration is: working smarter together, rather than working harder alone and for a critical moral purpose and community dimension: learning from, with and on behalf of one another. Fig. 1. Model NLC path The use of social media, blogs, and learning communities including of networked learning that offer different prices to support self-efficacy development. However, it is necessary to review the applications of networked learning, which integrates pro- 204 http://www.i-jim.org Short Paper—Professional Skills Development Through the Network Learning Community Using an... fessional contexts into the academic learning experience. Interventions that use learn- ing networks to promote professional training and social networking for students' self- efficacy. There are three techniques in integrating learning design: First, helping students to develop personal learning networks. Second, using blog-based learning as a media in teaching. The last, to sharpen teachers’ networking skills with professionals. Based on the assumption, networked learning will help to support a gradual buildup of confi- dence and skills in an online learning community among coordinators, whereas to learn for networking with experts will give a lot of impact in mastery on the progress of students. A survey of undergraduate students in the School of Business, there are 75 students found the result of the intervention in significant gains in self-confident for professional training and social networking. In the coming years, there were re- ports of high likelihood users engaging in this activity. Finally, the learning experi- ences they acquire are quite relevant in their lifelong learning and professional suc- cess based on the students' perception. Fig. 2. Model NLC self-efficacy Creating new opportunities to share and improve skills by collaborating with others school to strengthen professional learning by Networked learning communities or NLCs [7].When it comes to changing schools, educators should consider tapping into the power of Network Learning Communities. The aim of education in 21st century with Networks aligned is an important mechanism to increase efforts to redesign the school by offering a broad forum but personal leraning. Reflectivity in research practice, collabotive learning, co-ownership, partnerships, teacher empowerment, and school leadership. Carefully designed networks serve as breeding grounds for innovation and risk-taking, building better capacity for reform to encourage a lot of ideas that exist in the movement of school redesign, which facilitates a more dynamis and interactive level of collaboration and providing opportunities for teachers to create knowledge Traditional cross-border enhances teacher practice in a wide enough ideas to use and engage the participants of joint problem solving enabled some schools to share expertise with a wider audience promoting challenging ideas rather than prescribing allowing for discussion of ideas without agreed solutions respecting and encouraging teacher knowledge within and beyond expert knowledge to create iJIM ‒ Vol. 15, No. 12, 2021 205 Short Paper—Professional Skills Development Through the Network Learning Community Using an... new knowledge overcoming traditional isolation and hierarchical models fostering higher quality professional learning experiences. A strong network shares the following characteristics: clear goal and direction of collaboration and commitment built on purpose adequate resources emphasis on building relationships through meaningful activities view network leadership as a cross-cultural resource intermediary We have experiences and expertise in creating, facilitating, and growing a networked learning community that can help design and strengthen communities from scratch. In this developed country, some previous sur- veys and research found that around 95% of students owned smart mobile devices in Universities. Proposing an operational framework for designing Mobile Collaborative Informal learning activities using SMDs. Result show that experiments and case stud- ies conducted to study Informal Mobile Collaborative learning using Activity. [17]. An online learning environment in the form of a "community of inquiry" was devel- oped by [8] There are three distinct elements to this "presences", namely: teaching, cognitive, and social. (see Figure 3) While recognizing the relationships and overlap among all three components [4] each component is recommended for further research. [15]. Fig. 3. Community of Inquiry 3 Method The ways and steps that can be taken in the learning process in the 21st century ed- ucation era are “Design Thinking” with a human-oriented approach in determining short-term and long-term strategies. This method in education is called "Design Thinking for Educators". There are three components the learning process of design thinking: First, an approach and mindset to learning. Second, creative problem solv- ing. And the last, collaboration. In practice, a structured framework in design process is broken up into five stages: identify challenges, gather information, generate poten- tial solution, and test solution. Design Thinking can be used to any field through the creation of a learning project that can be designed in a learning activity system as an innovative learning process. Tutors guide the younger generation to undertake new professions that do not current- ly exist. In addition, the design thinking process will assist tutors in conducting men- toring to face future professional challenges through the concept of a networked learn- ing community. 206 http://www.i-jim.org Short Paper—Professional Skills Development Through the Network Learning Community Using an... In the application of design thinking in the prospect of NLC studies by using online courses based on live streaming platforms, this can use the practical high competence method for personalized learning and efficacy improvement. The stages are as fol- lows: 1. Discovery: Understanding and researching problems that have been prepared by the teacher or rather the teacher provides challenges to students in the form of a problem. Students are assisted by the teacher to jointly understand and examine the problems that have been provided by the teacher in accordance with the material they are going to learn. Students are asked to understand and research the problems given through existing material sources, either through textbooks, the internet or other sources so that students do not only receive information from one source and the knowledge of students will be wider. 2. Interpretation: Connecting problem points in the research. The teacher directs students to connect all the problems they find so that the problem will be conical to make it easier to arrange the stages of solving the problems that have been previ- ously given. 3. Ideation: Generate and refine ideas on how to solve problems. Students are stimu- lated to look for or explore new ideas in solving problems they find and the teacher has the task of directing students so that students are able to issue their creative ideas but in accordance with the corridors of existing problems. 4. Experimentation: Testing students' ideas, collaborating with others, getting feed- back. Students do experiments / experiments to test their ideas, in doing this step it is expected that students collaborate with each other so that communication be- tween them can run well. In this stage the teacher is tasked with providing feed- back on the experiments that students make so that they can be more focused and students get input in developing the experiments they are doing. 5. Evolution: Draw conclusions and develop students' ideas. At this stage students will draw conclusions from all the stages they have done and at this stage students are also expected to be able to present the new ideas they have gotten to their col- leagues so that in class there will be some new ideas that students will develop or develop. looking for new inspirations in solving the problems they find. Fig. 4. Design Thinking Process for Educator Scheme iJIM ‒ Vol. 15, No. 12, 2021 207 Short Paper—Professional Skills Development Through the Network Learning Community Using an... 4 Results and Discussion 4.1 Learning evaluation results with the NLC platform Using a platform by applying practical learning to the community through live streaming-based professional mentors has the potential for self-development at a good average. The following can be seen in Figure 4.1 which shows the evaluation process and the average learning outcomes (Learning Community Group). Fig. 5. Evaluation process and the average learning outcomes For a number of Photography community users (20 students) carried out a learning scenario in 3 steps: Theory, Practice and Feedback) by means of a 14 day live stream) the resulting learning evaluation is as follows: Table 1. Learning Evaluation Results User Interaction Potential Self Pre-Test Pos-Test 20 users of the homogeneous community live streaming 89 78 92 20 users of online homogeneous communities 84 83 89 20 users of heterogeneous community live streaming 90 84 91 20 users of heterogeneous communities online 86 80 87 Self-potential values include management, creativity, analysis, communication, de- sign, and logic of thinking). From the results of the assessment of product work in learning scenarios using live streaming and online, it is obtained a different pattern of potential for each user. 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Article submitted 2021-01-28. Resubmitted 2021-02-12. Final acceptance 2021-04-19. Final version published as submitted by the authors. 210 http://www.i-jim.org