Microsoft has conducted a survey in Asia Pacific involving 1850 students with age under 24 years from 8 countries, including Indonesia. The result is that the majority of students in Indonesia are aware of the benefits of coding in education and the magnitude of potential offered for their future. Unfortunately, in the study also revealed that students lacked optimal support in learning to code. As many as 91% of students in Indonesia want to know more about coding. Meanwhile, as many as 72% of students hope coding can be used as the main subjects in school. In the 21st century this opportunity to study computer science (coding) is very wide open for all circles, whether they have basic i...

Microsoft globally launched a movement called "Digital Transformation", applied in various fields, education is no exception. Microsoft created specifically Office 365 for education to make teachers can get more productivity and flexibility, especially when they’re doing administration tasks. They need to collaborate with others teacher or staff in the school to finish that tasks quickly. As answer what the teachers need, Microsoft Innovation Center as a part of a research organization in technology who want to improve the skill of academics, he was held workshop “Managing Documents using Office Web Apps, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint Online” for teachers especially in DI. Yogyaka...

In the 21st century today, information technology has become part of education, there is much we can do more with technology. As part of academics we can improve productivity and collaboration so easily with Office 365. Especially when we’re a school supervisor who has the duty to monitor and assess the performance of teachers and schools, we need simple applications that can help doing our duties. As an answer of what need school supervisor, Microsoft Innovation Center as a research organization that has a vision to improve the skills of academics in technology, was held a workshop "Doing More with Office 365" which will give an overview to the participants in performing their duties eas...

Although slides are just the visual aids in the presentation, special attention are needed to make slide interactive, so it can attract the attention of the audiences. But many students can’t make interactive slides or presentation, so Microsoft Innovation Center was held workshop entitled “Digital Transformation for Academic using Microsoft PowerPoint 2016” with aim to give students how to make interactive slides or presentation. The Workshop “Digital Transformation for Academic using Microsoft PowerPoint 2016”  was held on 25 October 2017 on the 2nd floor, Digital Library Faculty Engineering of UGM. This event was attended by 30 participants coming from college students from various un...

Microsoft is constantly working to improve the features of applications that have been built, including the Microsoft Word 2016 application, but many users don’t yet know in depth about the use of features owned by the app. Based on existing case studies, Microsoft Innovation Center as a research organization that concentrates on the development of competence in the field of information technology, was held workshop entitled “Digital Transformation for Academic using Microsoft Word 2016”. It aims to introduce outstanding features owned by Microsoft Word 2016 to users, especially students, to facilitate students in making the thesis or papers. The Workshop “Digital Transformation for Acad...

Globally Microsoft initiated a movement called "Digital Transformation", applied in various lines, education was no exception. Digital transformation implying on a technology-based approach that is able to optimize business processes in a field. Microsoft Innovation Center as a research organization concentrating on developing the competence of teachers in ICT organized a Guru Inovatif workshop entitled "Virtual Classroom Design with Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business" which aims to provide instruction regarding the practice of exploiting the productivity tools of teaching as a form of support the implementation of the virtual classroom. Guru Inovatif workshop "Virtual Classroom Desi...

Education in the 21st century is needed to think and innovate, because it has been supported by today's technology is quite qualified, to be born a generation that is able to innovate required educators who are able to transform education as an initiator of educational progress. Microsoft Innovation Center held a mini workshop "Digital Transformation for Education" followed by teachers throughout the city of Yogyakarta from various levels. In the mini-workshop "Digital Transformation for Education" held on August 30, 2017 at the Digital Library Faculty of Engineering-UGM followed by participants who have backgrounds as educators with various education levels spread across the city of Yog...

The world as we know it has changed. We are in 4th Industrial Revolution. Everything is digitalized, which in a way make our life easier, personally and professionally. Lately, we kept on hearing the phrase “Digital Transformation”. It sounds both intriguing and intimidating at the same time and many of us thought that it only applies for big enterprises and corporations. Answering that issues, Microsoft Indonesia held workshop "Empowering Indonesia Businesses in Digital Era". This workshop attempted to learn about digital transformation can be applied to all businesses across industry regardless of its size by using Microsoft Azure. This event was led by four speakers, Kenn Elbert Firgo...

Certification and Education Division from Microsoft Innovation Center held workshop training "Junior Mobile Cross Development with Xamarin". Following one of the benefits from Microsoft YouthSpark 2017 which was held on May 15, 2017 and supported by Microsoft Innovation Center Yogyakarta, the winners were invited to take workshop training of Technology Learning Package. The training was held for 3 days of face-to-face meetings and 2 days of self-directed learning online. This event was held on August 04, 2017 until August 06, 2017 held at Laboratorium Jarkom DTETI Engineering Faculty, Universitas Gadjah Mada. This event was attended by 13 participants coming from students and teachers fr...

Certification and Education Division from Microsoft Innovation Center held workshop "Imagine Academy Office". This workshop attempted to learn about the preparation of Microsoft Office Specialist Certification. Demonstrate that participants have the skills needed to get the most out of Office by earning a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification in a specific Office program like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. This event was held on July 10, 2017 until July 12, 2017 held at Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta. This event was attended by 14 participants coming from lecturer. In Microsoft Office Specialist Word 2016 preparation of certification exam, participants will have a fundamental u...