Overview of Information System of Ac counting Department of Airlangga University

2478 program was available to students by means of cooperation of Faculty of Economy and a cellular phone provider. 2. Hot spot within buildings of Faculty of Economy of Airlangga University capable of being used by all academicians by means of laptop with wi-fi facilities. 3. Inter-computer network available to facilitate process of data collection. The network was equipped with a security sys tem in order to prevent access by other illegal parties. 4. An online study plan programming used by undergraduate students of Accounting in order to program subjects of study. 5. Class lectures using computers or laptops, and LCD where computers in every class had its own server containing instructional materials. Faculty of Economy as one of faculties with the greatest number of students in Airlangga University certainly needed to contemplate on what strategies that needed to be devised or developed in order to fulfill user demands, including lecturers and students. Indeed, those strategies needed to be initiated from respective unitsdepartments in Faculty of Economy, one of them was Accounting Department. Rationale for selection of the setting only in Acco unting Department was in order to initiate designing e -learning in a smaller scope by utilizing the available university website. Content of e -learning was searched for 2479 completely in order for construction of preliminary formulation when the content was developed in a higher level.

4.2. Data Presentation

Data of the research originated from interviews with lecturers or structural officials in Accounting Department and students of Accounting Department. For the sake of completeness and comprehensiveness of data, questionnaire was administered to permanent lecturers of Accounting Department and students of Accounting Department. Documentation data was also obtained.

4.3. Discussion

The obtained four sources of documentation, namely GBPP, SAP, Syllabus, and Education Manual were closely related to success of learning. For the sake of clarity, discussion was confined to only one subject, Management Information System. Observational results of GBPP, SAP, Syllabus, and Education Manual appropriate to achieving out put are summarized in Appendix 6. In order for the e-learning to be applied, GBPP, SAP, Syllabuscontract of lectures, and Education Manual needed to be translated into computer language. In fact, Accounting Department has utilized IT in limited fashion f or searching for information and the lecturers possessed their own e -mail addresses for informational exchange with workmates. Results of questionnaire administered to lecturers showed that as much as eight 2480 respondents very frequently used the Internet for searching for information in order to support learning processes. In addition, 91.7 of them possesses e - mail addresses, which was expected to optimize e -learning utilization. Lecturers, administration staff, and students as users were keys to e -learning success. E-learning model was certainly strived for eliminating direct lecturer-student interaction as was in the class. Lecturers were by far used facilities of LCD and laptop to run powerpoint or as aids in delivery of materials. This was based on stude nts‘ responses of the question of technologies used by their lecturers in the class and their capabilities in operating it. Infrastructure of Faculty of Economy provided sufficient facilities to students in searching for the needed learning information. F acility of wi-fi in the campus area of Faculty of Economy was extensively used by students to search for lecture materials or other information. Fulfilled requirement of infrastructure resource would facilitate installation to home Web site of Faculty Airlangga University that had already linked to faculties. Web site of Airlangga University has already been used by most students of Accounting Department of Faculty of Economy. About 90.2 respondents have ever visited the Web site and utilized link faciliti es available in the university Web site. Home Web site of Airlangga University was used by students to browse faculty link, academic link, and departmental link, successively.