MEASURING ONLINE LEARNING READINESS DURING CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC: AN EVALUATIVE SURVEY ON HISTORY TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

Corona virus pandemic has rapidly changed the way of life as well as the way of learning system in entire world. The need for information and communication technology (ICT) competencies and improved digital infrastructure are the main requirement to conduct the distance learning or online learning....

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Main Authors: Atqo Akmal, Asyrul Fikri, Tien Rahmawati, Zulfa Hendri, Noviyana Sari
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Language:English
Published: Laboratory of Elementary Teacher Education Study Program, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, Universitas Riau Pekanbaru, Indonesia 2021-01-01
Series:Jurnal PAJAR (Pendidikan dan Pengajaran)
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Online Access:https://pajar.ejournal.unri.ac.id/index.php/PJR/article/view/8169
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description Corona virus pandemic has rapidly changed the way of life as well as the way of learning system in entire world. The need for information and communication technology (ICT) competencies and improved digital infrastructure are the main requirement to conduct the distance learning or online learning. In addition, both teachers and students must be adapted with this “abnormal” condition since the online learning has been officially applied by Indonesian government during March until end of 2020. However, a quick change to online learning has left students and teachers with insufficient time to prepare. This study focused on the readiness of teachers and students to conduct online learning. The readiness aspects considered in this study were the digital competence of users and digital infrastructure readiness to support the technical issue of online learning. The design of this study was evaluative survey and the data were collected equally by using online survey platform from three hundreds high school students and thirty history teachers. To maintain the equalization of the data, the respondent was divided into two clusters, based on the rural region and urban region. This study found that both students and teachers were mainly not well prepared and fully ready to conduct online learning due to technical problems such as stability of internet access, the internet network availability, and financial issues. Meanwhile, the digital competence aspect was not the major problem for both teachers and students because the majority of respondents (above 80%) declared that they had no trouble in using the device or running the online learning platform. Consequently, in  along-term effect, the unbalanced preparation of online learning could be resulted in digital divided which rose the inequality of the education quality among the learners.
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spelling doaj.art-02b30491de1f4fd8a0bb6406b10894822023-03-29T01:33:57ZengLaboratory of Elementary Teacher Education Study Program, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, Universitas Riau Pekanbaru, IndonesiaJurnal PAJAR (Pendidikan dan Pengajaran)2580-84352614-13372021-01-01519811010.33578/pjr.v5i1.81696922MEASURING ONLINE LEARNING READINESS DURING CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC: AN EVALUATIVE SURVEY ON HISTORY TEACHERS AND STUDENTSAtqo Akmal0Asyrul Fikri1Tien Rahmawati2Zulfa Hendri3Noviyana Sari4Universitas Islam Negeri Imam BonjolUniversitas RiauMusyawarah Guru Mata Pelajaran Sejarah Kabupaten Indragiri HilirUniversitas Negeri JakartaUniversitas Sebelas MaretCorona virus pandemic has rapidly changed the way of life as well as the way of learning system in entire world. The need for information and communication technology (ICT) competencies and improved digital infrastructure are the main requirement to conduct the distance learning or online learning. In addition, both teachers and students must be adapted with this “abnormal” condition since the online learning has been officially applied by Indonesian government during March until end of 2020. However, a quick change to online learning has left students and teachers with insufficient time to prepare. This study focused on the readiness of teachers and students to conduct online learning. The readiness aspects considered in this study were the digital competence of users and digital infrastructure readiness to support the technical issue of online learning. The design of this study was evaluative survey and the data were collected equally by using online survey platform from three hundreds high school students and thirty history teachers. To maintain the equalization of the data, the respondent was divided into two clusters, based on the rural region and urban region. This study found that both students and teachers were mainly not well prepared and fully ready to conduct online learning due to technical problems such as stability of internet access, the internet network availability, and financial issues. Meanwhile, the digital competence aspect was not the major problem for both teachers and students because the majority of respondents (above 80%) declared that they had no trouble in using the device or running the online learning platform. Consequently, in  along-term effect, the unbalanced preparation of online learning could be resulted in digital divided which rose the inequality of the education quality among the learners.https://pajar.ejournal.unri.ac.id/index.php/PJR/article/view/8169online learning readiness, history education, pandemic
spellingShingle Atqo Akmal
Asyrul Fikri
Tien Rahmawati
Zulfa Hendri
Noviyana Sari
MEASURING ONLINE LEARNING READINESS DURING CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC: AN EVALUATIVE SURVEY ON HISTORY TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
Jurnal PAJAR (Pendidikan dan Pengajaran)
online learning readiness, history education, pandemic
title MEASURING ONLINE LEARNING READINESS DURING CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC: AN EVALUATIVE SURVEY ON HISTORY TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
title_full MEASURING ONLINE LEARNING READINESS DURING CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC: AN EVALUATIVE SURVEY ON HISTORY TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
title_fullStr MEASURING ONLINE LEARNING READINESS DURING CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC: AN EVALUATIVE SURVEY ON HISTORY TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
title_full_unstemmed MEASURING ONLINE LEARNING READINESS DURING CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC: AN EVALUATIVE SURVEY ON HISTORY TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
title_short MEASURING ONLINE LEARNING READINESS DURING CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC: AN EVALUATIVE SURVEY ON HISTORY TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
title_sort measuring online learning readiness during corona virus pandemic an evaluative survey on history teachers and students
topic online learning readiness, history education, pandemic
url https://pajar.ejournal.unri.ac.id/index.php/PJR/article/view/8169
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