Online Learning Process in the Corona Period of the 2019 Virus Disease (Covid-19)

Online Learning Process in the Corona Period of  Virus Disease 2019 (Covid-19)

Nyoman Wendri

Physics Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Udayana University,

Bukit Jimbaran Campus, Badung, Bali, Indonesia

Email: wendri@unud.ac.id

Currently the world is shocked by the outbreak of a disease caused by a virus called corona known as covid-19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019). Corona Virus Disease 2019 has infected many people in Indonesia, forcing people to move from home. One of them is teaching and learning activities, for almost three months all teaching and learning activities on campus have been abolished, replaced by online learning at home.

Online lectures can be understood as formal education organized by higher education institutions where students and their instructions (lecturers are located in separate locations so that they require an interactive telecommunications system to connect the two and the various resources needed in it. maximum in universities (PT) in Indonesia.

Since the Minister of Education and Culture issued Circular Number 36962 / MPK.A / HK / 2020 so that all teaching and learning activities both in schools and college campuses use online methods (online) as an effort to prevent the development and spread of Corona virus disease (Covid-19 ). This transition to learning forces various parties to follow the path that could be taken so that learning can take place.

Lots of interesting, funny, and sad stories that occur in the learning process with this method. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and colleges were closed. As in the United States UNICEF tweet dated March 9 below, nearly 300 million students were affected by the closure of the educational institution. Some regions in Indonesia, Some universities in Indonesia also carry out similar policies, for example Udayana University. This policy, whose purpose is none other than to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infections.

In carrying out lectures online there are certainly advantages and disadvantages including:

The disadvantages of online learning are:

a. It is difficult to control which students are serious about taking lessons and which are not.

b. Learning is more theoretical and minimal practice because it is not possible for direct interaction with students

c. For those who live in locations with poor communication infrastructure, it will be difficult to access the internet.

The advantages of online / online learning are:

a. Time and place are more effective. students can directly follow the learning process from home.

b. Students not only depend on the lecturer, but can also learn to do their own research via the internet.

c. Automatically students are trained to better master the ever-evolving information technology.

Teachers / lecturers generally use video conferencing applications such as Zoom, Webex, and Meet to make claims that learning continues. They send various instructions and then expect students to carry out and / or collect the assignments requested. Either via email or whatsApp.

All levels of society anywhere in Indonesia can join this program, and can save time and energy. There are so many problems that occur in the online learning system including: lecturers usually teach quite effectively in class, can they teach effectively enough from home, because in teaching online there must be many obstacles including inadequate signals and in online lecture discussions less effective, because the material presented is not necessarily biased to be understood by all lecture participants. But this system is only effective at giving assignments to students. Despite the difficulty in listening to lessons through the online system, learning methods with virtual systems cannot be avoided during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Not only in terms of teaching but in terms of assessment also ineffective which usually assess students from discipline in attending lectures, discussions in each meeting but with the presence of online lectures we can only judge students only from assignments other than midterm and final exams.

The 2020-2021 school year which is about to begin, in Indonesia still applies virtual learning especially for areas in risk areas, with the number of positive cases of corona increasing, this method is still being implemented.

Online learning activities that have occurred over the past 3 months are arguably quite successful, although there have been a number of Constraints among students and teachers. Regardless of how effective online learning is or not, at least this way of learning can still fill the time of students and teachers while at home.