The Road to Developing Students’ Digital Fluency: The Role of Personality Traits

¹ Psychology Department, Faculty of Humanities, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia 11480
² Lumina Learning Ltd. The Columbia Centre, Station Road, Bracknell, RG12 1LP, United Kingdom

^* Corresponding author: gretavidya@binus.edu
^† Corresponding author: rgodwin@binus.ac.id
^‡ Corresponding author: yperanginangin@binus.edu
^§ Corresponding author: ayleenwisudha@luminalearning.com
^** Corresponding author: stewartdesson@luminalearning.com

Abstract

The rapid development of technology, especially in the digital area, requires humans to develop. Understanding and the ability to use technology are no longer enough to deal with technological advances. Therefore, developing digital fluency in everyone is necessary, and higher education has a significant role in this. Personality description is chosen as the entrance to the development of digital fluency, especially for students. Using a questionnaire distributed through BINUS Maya, which was then connected to the Lumina Spark online system, we collected 2014 participants from various majors at the undergraduate level. Out of the 24 personality traits measured in the Lumina Spark, adaptable, flexible, and radical do not significantly correlate with personality. Through regression analysis, ten traits have a role in predicting students' digital fluency. The results of this study can be used to develop activity programs for students, especially in the classroom, so that the habituation process can run naturally along with lecture interactions.