LECTURERS’ PERCEPTION OF ONLINE LEARNING AND ITS ASSOCIATED FACTORS IN THE MIDST OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Authors:
Sukardi Weda, Haryanto Atmowardoyo, Fathu Rahman, Mawardin M.said & Herman H
Abstract:
This study aims to investigate the participants’ perception of online learning and its associated factors in the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. There were 102 participants (67 or 65.7% males and 35 or 34.3% females). They were lecturers from several universities in Indonesia. There were 38 or 37.3% participants had master’s degree background and there were 64 or 62.7% had doctoral degree background. The instrument of the study was open-ended questionnaire consisting of demographic participants and some questions related to online learning practices in the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia. The quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and qualitative data were coding and analyzed using content analysis (CA) method. This present study tries to explore the students’ perception of online learning and its associated factors in the midst of the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic. The study therefore concludes that the participants prefer physical classroom than online learning with a variety of reasons: establishing friendship and communication, being interactive, being effective and efficient, maintaining good interaction, building attitude, promoting emotional relationship, more humane, and character building. Therefore, the participants’ reasons to choose online learning are: Flexible, practical, effective, efficient, simple, and suitable technology tool for learning process in the midst of Covid-19 Pandemic. Therefore, some participants of the study claimed that the online learning is not effective with some reasons, those are: the lecturer cannot control the learning process, network problem and internet data, students’ misunderstandings of the teaching material, and some students are ready to receive lessons, while others have not, because of the different student locations related to the condition of their networks. The last finding of the study is that there were 36.8% of the participants chose the proportion of the participants’ response on the face to face classroom and online learning is 70 for physical classroom and 30 for online learning.