Students^ View to The Use of Collaborative Application for Completion of Project-based Course
Didin Wahyudin, Bachtiar Hasan, Dadang Lukman Hakim, Aip Saripudin

Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Abstract

Teaching and learning by online meetings in the pandemic era are challenging. Some students argued that learning online is boring because they felt exhaustive when involved in such a learning approach. On the Other hand, some lectures opined that examination in online learning is not fulfilling their satisfaction compared to the conventional examination, that is in classroom assessment. However, for some applied courses, there is research that project-based learning is promising to be used as the best alternative for assessing students^ performance. Project-based learning encourages the student to be active in learning processes. For example, they could find material for the project references and also encourage them to collaborative works. However, to provide maximum monitoring of collaborative task completion, some applications could be used for these purposes. Hence, we surveyed to measure the student opinion to the use of collaborative application for project coordination in project-based learning. Students were asked to try a number of collaborative applications such as Basecamp, Trello, and Asana for their project, and then they should respond to the questionnaires. The survey invited 80 students from two classes with different subjects, i.e., students taking a network application development course and research methodology. The result gave evidence that such an application is sufficient to support the student in completing project-based learning.

Keywords: Pandemic, Online Learning, Project-based Course, Performance Assesment, Collaborative Application

Topic: Computers, Internet, Multimedia in Engineering Education