THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING E-COMMERCE MEDIA IN IMPROVING STUDENTS^ UNDERSTANDING OF BASIC ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES Tetep*- Nizar Alam Hamdani- Hilmi Nurfaizan - Lucky Nurjamin- Slamet Nopharipaldi Rohman
Institut Pendidikan Indonesia
Abstract
E-commerce has now become a millennial market that offers easy access to the distribution of economic activities. The rise of e-commerce is certainly a big challenge for the world of education, especially in providing understanding for students as the millennial generation in utilizing the e-commerce media. This research is an experiment in utilizing E-Commerce media by teachers for students in learning to gain an understanding of economic principles. Learning by utilizing e-commerce media is carried out in class VIII of SMPN 3 Banyuresmi. The results showed that before the use of e-commerce students^ understanding of economic principles was relatively low with an average result of only 65 while after the teacher used e-commerce media there was an increase in understanding to an average of 78, meaning that there was a significant increase of around 13 points of understanding. students towards understanding the basic principles of economics. Therefore, the use of e-commerce media, e-business is very helpful for students in understanding the current millennial economic activities.
