Lecturers’ Readiness in Online Teaching During COVID-19 Pandemic

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10.2991/assehr.k.210930.002How to use a DOI?

Keywords

“Lecturer readiness”, “online learning”, “medical education”

Abstract

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a sudden shift towards online learning in education system. The readiness of lecturers in conducting online learning is one of the essential pre-conditions for online learning in medical education system. Aims: This study aims to measure lecturers’ attitudes towards online teaching competencies and their differentiating factors. Methods: This descriptive-analytic study was conducted in June-July 2020, which was three months after full-online learning was implemented in Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. The Faculty Readiness to Teach Online (FRTO) questionnaires with four sub-scales (course design, course communication, time management, and technical competency) as the instruments were given to the medical lecturers to evaluate their readiness to teach online. The validity and reliability of lecturers’ responses were examined. We used multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) to analyse the differences in lecturer’s attitude towards online teaching competencies with reference to gender, age, education level, academic rank, and years of teaching. Results: A total of 63 lecturers from our institute participated in this study, 35% were males and 65% were females, with the mean age group of the respondents was between 41.63 ± 7.95 years old. The FRTO questionnaires results show overall high rates (3.50 ± 0.74) of the lecturers’ attitudes to teach online. Course communication were rated the highest (3.79±0.66), followed by course design (3.46±0.76), technical competence (3.39±0.71), and time management (3.35±0.82). Results from multivariate analysis show significant differences in gender (p<0,05), age (p<0,05), and years of teaching (p<0,05) for lecturers’ attitudes towards online teaching competencies. Conclusions: The findings of this study show a good level of lecturers’ readiness to teach online. General training for lecturers should be conducted to accommodate the differences in their readiness levels.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Daniel Ardian Soeselo
AU  - Veronica Dwi Jani Juliawati
AU  - Gisella Anastasia
AU  - Sandy Theresia
AU  - Sanny Winardi
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/01
TI  - Lecturers’ Readiness in Online Teaching During COVID-19 Pandemic
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Education (ICME 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 7
EP  - 14
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210930.002
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210930.002
ID  - Soeselo2021
ER  -