UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF THE USE OF ONLINE LEARNING DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
SKRIPSI
BY
JAUZI MUQODDAS NPM 21701073025
UNIVERSITY OF ISLAM MALANG
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
2021
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UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF THE USE OF ONLINE LEARNING DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
SKRIPSI Presented to
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Islam Malang
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Sarjana in English Language Education
BY:
JAUZI MUQODDAS NPM 217.010.730.25
UNIVERSITY OF ISLAM MALANG
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
2021
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Muqoddas, Jauzi Muqoddas. 2021. University Students’ Perception of The Use of Online Learning During Covid-19 Pandemic. Skripsi, English Education Department Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Islam Malang. Advisor I: Prof. Drs. H. Junaidi Mistar, M.Pd., Ph.D; Advisor II: Imam Wahyudi Karimullah, SS., MA.
Keywords: Perception, Online Learning, Covid-19 Pandemic.
The Covid-19 outbreak has spread throughout Indonesia, which has prompted the minister of education and culture to change learning methods to online learning to prevent the spread of Covid-19 from getting worse. Many parties have to adapt to this change. In its application there are many positive and negative sides encountered. Therefore, the researcher conducted this study to find out how the perceptions, especially students, of using online learning during the covid-19 pandemic.
In this research, the researcher used mixed-method research combining quantitative and qualitative research methods. The participants were the sixth semester students at University of Islam Malang consisted of 58 students. To explore the students’ perception of the use of online learning during covid-19 pandemic, an online-based questionnaire and an online-based interview were used as the methods of collecting the data.
From the data analysis, the researcher found conclusion of university students’ perception of the use of online learning during covid-19 pandemic as follows: 43% students answered agree there are benefits of media for online learning. 47% answered agree in challenges during online learning and 51%
students answered agree in the implementation of online learning. It means students can adapt the online learning system to temporarily replacing
conventional learning during Covid-19 pandemic. Even though the student found the difficulties when interacting with the teacher during discussion, it is not giving much trouble.
Qualitatively, the finding showed that there were two different perceptions expressed by the students which are positive and negative perception. The positive perception was about the flexibility while conducting online learning, another reason why students enjoy online learning was because it increased their creativity. Some students felt they learned a lot of new things during online learning especially about adapting with new method of learning which was good for future. Moreover, for the negative perception was about the trouble to
understanding the material given by lecturers. This is probably because lecturers need to get used to this new way of learning. Then, why do students express negative perceptions because they feel tired. Students can attend more than 3 classes a day which per class can be more than one hour.
1 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents the background of the study, research problem, objective of the study, significance of the study, scope and limitations, definition of key terms.
1.1 Background of Study
Today, the world is struggling fighting against one of the deadliest viruses on the earth, coronavirus. Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses which spread between animals and people can lead illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV). Coronavirus outbreak initially began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 before finally spreading around the world. The first death of coronavirus was a 61-year-old man reported by Chinese media after he had visited one of the animal markets in Wuhan.
This virus strikes almost every sector of life, economic, social-life, healthcare, tourism, including education. Covid-19 raised massive impacts on education in terms of learning interference, reducing access to education and research centers, and increasing students’ loan (Onyema et al., 2020). Due to the tremendous impacts, by the end of January 2020 World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Covid-19 outbreak as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Pandemic is a situation when a new disease spreading and infecting all over the world.
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Indonesia is one of the many countries that has been infected by Covid-19. By 9 September 2021, there have been 4.147.365 confirmed case with 137.782 deaths.
The number of suffers of this virus was getting higher so that Indonesian government instructed to perform social distancing policy and restricted crowds in public places. In line with the government, Minister of Education and Culture, Nadiem Makarim, encouraged to conduct online learning at all levels of education.
The ministry recommends using various online learning platforms. According to Arkorful (2014) online learning means utilizing information and communication technologies to access teaching learning resources. The most popular online learning platforms frequently used during several months and those are recommendation from ministry such as Zoom Meeting, Google Meet, Google Classroom, Edmodo, Ruang Guru, WhatsApp and so on. According to Napratilora et al., (2020) teaching reading comprehension using WhatsApp offers a variety of conveniences.
As a new habit, online learning must bring new sight for the teacher and especially for the students. High possibilities, there are different opinions or perceptions performing online learning during Covid-19 pandemic. According to Setyawan et al., (2020) perception means the experience of event, object, and relationship obtained by summarizing information and defining message. The environment is full of stimuli that might attract us to pay attention to them through our various senses. As a result, humans can describe the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes that make up their conscious experience in a methodical way.
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Online learning nowadays has become a common thing as an integrated technology in education and the practice widely spread over the world especially in Indonesia. The researcher curios that this is going to be rise some pros and cons in terms of difficulties or excitements among lecturers and students in higher educational level especially university level. Some studies have been conducted to know what students’ perception about the use of online learning in the teaching and learning process. According to Cakrawati (2017) the use of online learning platforms is considered worthwhile due to it less time and effort. It means students having positive experience while performing online learning. Some students said that conducting teaching and learning process through online learning increased their courage to convey opinions in a discussion (Yuzulia, 2020). In contrast, there are some issues faced by students during online learning. Availability and sustainability of internet access, accessibility of teaching instruments, and compatibility of devices are numerous factors students not ready for this quick change in terms of teaching and learning process (Setyawan et al., 2020). In addition, some students expressed due to the very busy Zoom schedule they got health problems such as headache and eye strain (Yuzulia, 2020).
Based on the background above, the researcher is interested to know students’
perception of the use of online learning during covid-19 pandemic in University of Islam Malang.
1.2 Research Problem
Based on the background of the study above, the problem is formulated as follow:
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How is students’ perception of the use of online learning during covid-19 pandemic in University of Islam Malang?
1.3 Objective of the Study
Based on the background of the study and the research problems above, there will be one primary objective of this study:
To know university students’ perception of the use of online learning during covid- 19 pandemic.
1.4 Significance of the Study
The researcher hopes this research can be useful for:
a. Academic Benefits
Based on the researcher, the result of this study can be used as scientific information and documentation for developing teaching and learning research.
b. Practical Benefits
This research is expected can open up new insights particularly for researchers, teachers, and students about how is students’ perceptions of English Department in performing online learning during covid-19 in University of Islam Malang.
In addition, as suggestions and evaluation for lecturers to improve the quality of online teaching and learning process during or after covid-19 pandemic.
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1.5 Scope and Limitation
This research is conducted to know university students’ perception of the use of online learning during covid-19 pandemic. The aspects looked into are the benefits of media for online learning, challenges of media for online learning, and the implementation of online learning.
1.6 Definition of Key Terms
The definition of key terms is needed to prevent misunderstanding and vagueness. There are some terms which are used several times in this study, and those need to be defined.
Online learning refers to teaching and learning process utilizing technology in order to ease the teaching and learning experiences. In this case, most of lectures in English Department of University of Islam Malang using Zoom and Google Meet for live meeting lecture.
The act of accumulating, identifying, and interpreting sensory information in order to offer an overview and comprehension of the world is the following step, which is perception. All impulses in the neurological system that are the consequence of physical or chemical activation of the sense organs are classified as perception.
WHO publicly referred to the illness caused by the novel coronavirus as Coronavirus 2019 on February 12, 2020 (COVID-19). A new type of virus that has never been identified in humans is Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). Zoonosis (may be transmitted between animals or humans) is a coronavirus.
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CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
In this chapter, after knowing finding and discussion in the previous chapter, the researcher would like to give conclusion. The conclusion here answers two research questions from this study.
5.1 Conclusion
Based on the result in the chapter four, there are two different perceptions expressed by the students which are positive and the opposite perception. The positive perception is about the students having flexibility while conducting online learning, students can join the meeting from anywhere as long as they have internet access and supporting devices. Another reason why students enjoy online learning is because it increases their creativity. Some students feel they learning lot of new things during online learning especially about adjusting with new method of learning which is good for future. Moreover, for the negative perception is about the trouble to understanding the material given by lecturers. This is possibly caused lecturers need to get used to with this new way of learning. it is understandable because most of the lecturers from “X” generations where they less skilled using technologies. Another reason why students have negative perception because they feel exhausted. Students could attend more than 3 classes a day which per class could be more than one hour.
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5.2 Suggestion
After understanding the finding of this research, the writer would like to suggest lecturers should be keep up to date to the new ways of exciting learning. Lecturers can combine using social media to improve the excitement for students. However, the lecturers must be equipped with knowledge about social media and spend much time to prepare students in using social media for learning before including social media in the classroom. Next suggestion is addressed for students to be more active give opinions and new ideas to the lecturers in order to make a better learning process. Lecturers cannot walk alone. They also need students to give another insight how to run the class fun and interesting. Last, the researcher would like to suggest future research to explore more impact of online learning on specific English skills and how to avoid the problems that can arise when using online learning even if the pandemic is over.
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