Developing Online-based Tap Course Materials

Abstract

The development of information and communication technologies (ICT) has changed learning system in universities, including its course materials. Offline course materials have been outdated, gradually replaced by online-based materials. As the course aiming at preparing students to become not only scientists but also entrepreneurs in the translation field, the Translation as a Profession (TAP) course materials provided to students of Translation Study Program at University of Sumatera Utara (TSP-USU) need to be developed into online-based learning materials. Such necessity is motivated by the fact that professionalism in translation should correspond to the ICT development, requiring professional translators to be literate in using ICT tools. Therefore, this paper aims at developing online-based TAP course materials. This study used a research and development employing the results of previous need analysis as the data. The results of this study are online-based materials whose topics are corresponding to the needs of the students and TAP lecturers.