Syamsul Hadi
The concept of learning organization was originally developed as a result of the pressures facing modern organizations and enables them to remain competitive in the business environment. The concept refers to organization that facilitates the learning of its members and continuously transforms itself. Furthermore, in a learning organization, not only are all the members, as individual persons, continually learning, but also the organization itself is highly adaptable. Research and discussions concerning the adoption of learning organization into educational institutions contexts has been broadly acceptable. However, bringing the concept into specific education institutions such as engineering education is very limited. The main problem on the adoptions is, while the change into learning organization needs fundamental changes, the schools mostly do not organically develop into learning organizations. In order to address this problem, transformation is an appropriate strategy to accelerate change towards LO. Through transformation - instead of just a reform - engineering education institutions will be able to accomplish a fundamental change, a change that alters the system in fundamental ways, offering a dramatic shift in direction and requiring new ways of thinking and acting. Based on these arguments, discussions in this paper will include: engineering education institution (EEI) as a learning organization, challenges in the transformation of EEI to be learning organizations, and transformational strategy to accelerate changes of EEI into LO. © 2016 Author(s).
Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia
