Collaborative Learning Development Method for Data Structure Course Case Study : Students at Computer System Department Andalas University

. Majority of universities on today era had prioritize quality as both of culture and competitive advantage. Supporting one of the policies from the government in quality improvement, to apply competency standards in every department that possess behavior value, knowledge, general skills and specific skills. Due to such requirements, the curriculum design must be able to achieve competency objectives. This research is commencing collaborative learning learning method in class where in every meeting, the students are forming focus group discussion. In addition, the open source based ilearn media is being optimized for daily interaction and to distribute syllabus, course material, task assignment and completion. The result of the research shows that 62% respondent founds the ilearn media is very convenient, 31% respondents stated the media is apporiate. The percentage group of 47.67% from the students claimed the holistic comprehension, 45.35% asserted their general understanding and only small percentages 6.98 declare not grasp the concept. This matter is triggred by the absence of the students itself. The application of collaborayive learing method also able to stimulate the passion of learning in following description, 39.53% asserted their fully enthusiam, 45.35% stated eagerness and the rest 15.12% are less ardency. Significantly, this method is able to boost the learning style and also able to polish up the final mark in 55.81%, additionally formed the students softskill decently.