How Lecturers and Students Adapted to Online Learning During Covid-19 Pandemic Era?: A Case Study in Department of Biology, Universitas Negeri Surabaya Ulfi Faizah (a*), Anna Permanasari (b), Nuryani Y. Rustaman (c)
(a) Doctorate Program of Science Education
School of Post Graduates
Indonesia University of Education
Bandung, Indonesia
ulfifaizah_19[at]upi.edu
(b) Department of Chemistry,
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences,
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Bandung, Indonesia
anna.permanasari[at]upi.edu
(c) Department of Biology,
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences,
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Bandung, Indonesia
nuryanirustaman[at]upi.edu
Abstract
Abstract: As most of the countries in the world, Indonesia Government now is applying Learning From Home policy by implementing online learning. Lecturers and students must be able to adapt well. The adaptation can be an embodiment of the adult learning process (andragogy) and the application of freedom for learning policy. This case study research aims to describe how lecturers and students in the Biology Department of Universitas Negeri Surabaya (Unesa) adapted to the implementation of online classes during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study was conducted along March-April 2020 involving 32 lecturers and 344 students respondents in the Biology Department, Unesa. The rapid survey was established on using Google form related to how they adapt to online learning as one of learning facilities, the learning implementation, and their responses. The survey results were analyzed descriptively. The results showed that lecturers and students, as learners andragogy, adapted learning with partner/independently learning. they made a joint agreement in choosing a variety of Learning Management Systems (LMS) and social media applications that will be suitable for them to conduct their online class. The LMS moda mostly used was google classroom (lecturer: 56.3%, students: 89.9%) while the application mostly used was whatsApp (lecturer: 84.4%; student: 94.5%). The adaptation was done by establishing instruction how to learn in an emergency period of covid-19 deployment. The learning was an embodiment of the Freedom Learning-Freedom Campus policy and it was focussed on life skills education Considering the interests and conditions of students, some feedback were proposed by them, including the learning activity products. As many as 72% of lecturers and 56% of students responded the online learning positively.
Keywords: online learning, covid 19 pandemic, Biology Department Unesa, case study
