Development of a Biodiversity Conservation E-module Containing Local Excellence in East Nusa Tenggara to Empower Students' Digital Literacy

Abstract

Digital literacy is a 21st century skill that students must have. Digital literacy indicators (finding, using, selecting, evaluating sources, considering the source and effect of the message, and using data to produce original work) can be used as a digital literacy measurement tool. E-module development uses the Lee & Owen model with stages including (1) assessment/analyze (Need assessment and Front-end analysis), (2) design, (3) development, (4) implementation, and (5) evaluation as designed loaded with local excellence. This research is a research & development (R&D) study conducted on 50 Biology Education Students at Nusa Cendana University which aims to empower students' digital literacy through the development of e-modules containing local advantages of East Nusa Tenggara. The e-module developed has been validated as suitable for use by material experts, teaching materials experts and biology education practitioners. Data analysis was carried out using normality and homogeneity tests with significance values ​​> 0.05 and ANCOVA tests with significance < 0.05. The e-module that has been developed has passed the N-gain test with a score of 0.62. The results of this research show that the use of e-modules has a significant effect in empowering digital literacy of biology education students.