Implementation of the Independent Campus Competition Program (Program Kompetisi Kampus Merdeka [PKKM]) activities which are packaged in activities Short Course for improving and developing lecturers in foreign languages is implementation MBKM with academic partners and DUDI. This activity was carried out by the FEB UTM Bachelor of Management Study Program.
Implementation of short course activities to improve and develop lecturers in foreign languages at partner universities is carried out at the UPT Language Center, Surabaya State University regularly once every week, with a total of 8 meetings or 8 weeks. Starting from 18 August 2022 to 06 October 2022. This short course activity has been running according to a pre-arranged schedule, with the number of participants involved in this activity being 15 Bachelor of Management lecturers, consisting of 5 lecturers in the financial concentration field, 5 lecturers in the marketing concentration field and 5 lecturers in the HR concentration field.
The learning system in foreign language short course activities, in this case English, is implemented using the Blended Learning system namely by combining face-to-face learning in the classroom and also online or distance learning. Of the 8 scheduled meetings, the first meeting was held face-to-face directly at the Language Center of the State University of Malang and the subsequent meetings, namely the 2nd to 8th meetings, were held remotely via Zoom Meeting media. The implementation of this activity supports the development of lecturer human resources in foreign languages, and can increase the achievement of IKU 6 in the form of IKT 2 for IKU 6 in the number of educational collaborations with partners.
Short course activities to improve and develop lecturers in foreign languages at partner universities carried out at the UPT Language Center, Surabaya State University have been carried out and are running according to the schedule that has been prepared. With the implementation of Short Course activities to improve and develop lecturers in foreign languages can maintaining a collaborative network between UTM and UNESA as academic partners in an effort to support increasing global human resource development in implementing the Tri Dharma of higher education.