The use of Lecturer Based Supportive Tools (LBST) as Data Provider for Indonesian Lecturer Administrative Problems

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Abstract

Recently, Indonesia has more than 3.000 Higher Education Institutions, 300.000 lecturers, and 7.8 million higher education students. To handle those numerous stakeholders, Directorate General Higher Education Indonesia Government (DGHEI - as the regulator of higher education institutions) has been developed several websites as Information Systems (IS). The developed information system was used to manage information that attached on the stakeholders entities. Those information entities were projected for open public data access. In other hand, the Information Systems that offered by DGHEI are not only single information system. But also several information system that not integrated yet become single portal. Moreover, DGHEI regulates lecturers to upload their entities such as portfolios and other supporting documents developed IS's. However, this will be cause a time consuming, repetition activities and data redundant. Those problems are called administrative problems. In the meantime, our current development Lecturer Based Supportive Tool (LBST) has been developed as lecturer assistance to enrich learning materials on limited bandwidth condition. This paper discusses the use of LBST as Data Provider to solve the administrative problems that has been occurred in Indonesia higher education environments. Instead of uploading into DGHEI information systems, lecturers eager to use LBST as an alternative systems that offered by DGHEI. As a result, LBST could be driven into data provider that provides information that needed by DGHEI or other data customers.