Digital Transformation in Islamic Education and Its Impact on Student Learning Motivation

Abstract

This study aims to analyze and formulate innovations in Islamic Religious Education (PAI) learning based on religious moderation in strengthening students' character through a library research approach with qualitative methods. The background of this research is based on the increasing challenges of intolerance, social polarization, and weak internalization of character values ​​among students, which demands a transformation of the PAI learning model to be more contextual and transformative. This study examines various scientific literature, books, reputable journals, and official policy documents related to religious moderation and character education to build an integrative conceptual framework. The results of the study indicate that religious moderation in the context of Islamic education is rooted in the principles of tawassuth (middle way), tasamuh (tolerance), i'tidal (justice), and deliberation, which are in line with the agenda of strengthening national character. This study also found that conventional PAI learning models tend to be cognitive and normative oriented, thus less touching the affective dimensions and social practices of students. Therefore, moderation-based learning innovations need to be designed through a dialogic, collaborative, contextual, and socio-religious project-based approach that encourages reflective and applicable internalization of values. This research offers an integrative conceptual model of moderation-character as a theoretical and pedagogical contribution to the development of Islamic Religious Education (PAI) that is adaptive to the challenges of diversity and the dynamics of a multicultural society.