Proceedings of the 5th Asian Education Symposium 2020 (AES 2020)

How Did Lecturers and Students Adapt to online Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic?

A case study in the Department of Biology, Universitas Negeri Surabaya

Authors
Ulfi Faizah, Anna Permanasari, Nuryani Y. Rustaman
Corresponding Author
Ulfi Faizah
Available Online 17 July 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.210715.029How to use a DOI?
Keywords
online learning, COVID-19 pandemic, case study, learning management systems
Abstract

As most of the countries in the world, Indonesia Government now is applying Learning from Home (LFH) policy by implementing online learning. Lecturers and students must be able to adapt well. The adaptation can be an embodiment of the adult learning process (andragogy) and the application of Merdeka Belajar-Kampus Merdeka/Freedom Learning and Freedom Campus policy. This case study research aims to describe how lecturers and students in the Biology Department of Universitas Negeri Surabaya (Unesa) adapted to the implementation of online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was conducted during March-April 2020 involving 32 lecturers and 344 student respondents in the Biology Department, Unesa. The rapid survey was established on using Google form related to how they adapt to online learning as one of the learning facilities, the learning implementation, and their responses. The survey results were analyzed descriptively. The results show that lecturers and students, as learners andragogy, adapted learning with partner or individual learning. they made a joint agreement in choosing a variety of Learning Management Systems (LMS) and social media applications that will be suitable for them to conduct their online class. The type of LMS mostly used was google classroom (lecturer: 56.3%, students: 89.9%) while the application mostly used was WhatsApp (lecturer: 84.4%; student: 94.5%). The adaptation was done by establishing instructions on how to learn in an emergency period of COVID-19 deployment. The learning was an embodiment of the Freedom Learning-Freedom Campus policy and it was focused on life skills education, considering the interests and conditions of students, some feedback was proposed by them, including the learning activity products. About 72% of lecturers and 56% of students responded the online learning positively.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 5th Asian Education Symposium 2020 (AES 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
17 July 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-405-6
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.210715.029How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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