Problems Faced by Participants Online Continuing Professional Development for Principals and Strategies to Solve

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10.2991/assehr.k.200129.157How to use a DOI?

Keywords

difficulties, coping strategies, online CPD

Abstract

One of the education and training programs for principals held by the Indonesian government is online mode professional development (CPD). Learning activities in this program are carried out with blended learning, namely, face to face and online or using internet-based computer technology. The purpose of this study is to study the difficulties experienced by principals in discussions on online CPD programs and strategies that are done to overcome them. The study used a mixed quantitative-qualitative method with principals in Central Java Province who had been online CPD participants since 2015. There were 69 heads of elementary and junior high schools from Sukoharjo, Wonogiri, Sragen, Magelang, and Purworejo districts who benefited. Quantitative data obtained through questionnaires, while qualitative data through in-depth interviews. The results showed that problems related to the implementation of online PKB for principals in Indonesia were too much workload to [school nutmeg, too many tasks and bills, limited or unavailability of internet access in schools in rural areas and cheap to use participant information technology. It involves the recruitment of principals as CPD online participants based on the supervisor’s assessment without an assessment of the results of the principal/teacher’s competence and school self-evaluation. To overcome the problems in the online CPD implementation, participants conducted several strategies to overcome them, namely involving school administration staff and teachers in the implementation of tasks carried out by the principal as an education participant. The same solution is also used by schools to overcome the problem of limited internet access, limited competence in using the internet and computers.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sukarno
AU  - Sumarwati
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/06
TI  - Problems Faced by Participants Online Continuing Professional Development for Principals and Strategies to Solve
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Learning Innovation and Quality Education (ICLIQE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1287
EP  - 1293
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200129.157
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200129.157
ID  - 2020
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