ICT to Vocational Education National Curriculum Implementation in Indonesia: Requirements, Challenges, and Opportunities

Abstract: Implementations stage is becoming a crucial to develop a vocational education curriculum and consider of this stage a new curriculum is doing by public testing, socialized for a society and related parties, implemented teacher’s training, and delivery a book guide. This research is literature review research. The aims of this research are describing (1) implementation needed of vocational education in Indonesia; (2) Challenges of vocational education curriculum implementation in Indonesia; and (3) Opportunities that gained by using ICT of vocational education implementation in Indonesia. The needs of vocational education curriculum implementation such as (1) there is a good communication of public testing and socialization (2) national trainer and master teacher must be competent and capable to guide (4) distributed the book to all of school, (5) teacher’s training is efficient. Vocational education curriculum implementation challenges are (1) public testing is too short, (2) there is a society who do not get a new curriculum implementation (3) national trainer and master teacher have the differences in doing the interpretation the material in training teacher, (4) not all books is ready and need a long time to distribution a book for all of Indonesia (5) not all teachers can join the training. Taken the opportunity of ICT in Vocational Education National Curriculum implementation, such as (1) the result of public testing and socialization is stored in the form manuscripts, video, audio that can be downloaded by anyone (2) book distributed should not be in print but e-book or e-module are allowed (3) In preparing national training and master teacher and teacher’s training is using microteaching, workshop, module, e-learning, and teleconference