Postgraduate Students’ Perspective on Supporting “Learning From Home” to Solve the COVID-19 Pandemics
Abstract
It is very important to study this topic because it is a novel education process applied in the postgraduate program in UHAMKA. The objective of this present research was to reveal how the postgraduate student perceive of or respond to the online learning process. A mixed method between qualitative and quantitative ones was adopted in this present research. The research results showed that most students who had experienced of the online learning activities encountered some obstacles because they had never conducted “LFH (Learning From Home) activities before. The respondents were 428 postgraduate students who actively joined in the “LFH” activities. From the students, 316 students used the platform zoom as the supporting application in the LFH activities. The respondents filled in the Google Form, then the collected data could be quickly and accurately processed. Other respondents preferred the google classroom, the whatsapp and other applications in following the learning activities according to the agreement and features provided in each flat form. There were 408 respondents stating that there was a two-way communication between the lecturers and the students during the LFH activities. They stated that the limited Internet network hindered the online lecturing. Thirty one respondents declared that technology limitations hampered the online lecturing, and 105 students revealed that it is the limitations in using the application that caused the online lecturing to become obstacles
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