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Uniku Must Be More Sensitive In Online Larning Policies


Over the past few months since corona pandemic, 94% of Indonesian tertiary institutions have conducted online lectures which is consistent with the development of online lectures since 1980. However, online learning that took place as a surprise from the Covid-19 pandemic, shocked almost all lines, from districts / cities, provinces, and centers. Then since the introduction of online learning, educational institutions have faced various obstacles. In response, the Ministry of Education began to revise the curriculum during the pandemic. But not at the university level, Acting Director General of Higher Education (Tribunnews.com), Nizam said that the learning process in higher education does not require an emergency curriculum.

As UNIKU students, we understand that educational institutions are not really ready for online learning, So far online learning is only as a technical tool, not as a way of thinking, as a learning paradigm. We haven't really jumped in even though we've used it, then we experienced some obstacles when move to forced online learning, students haven’t got good quality. That’s why the support and cooperation of the lecturers and the Uniku itself in terms of utilizing online learning technology needs to be improved.

Based on Journal by Steven R. Aragon with the title “Facilitating Learning in Online Environtments”, effective online education is a blend of pedagogy, technology, and organizational support, so that learning objectives can be achieved well. But in fact, the faculty doesn’t support their student enough, then we can’t play an active role exploring the increased interaction opportunity that online learning provides. In this case we don’t talk about technology, but its use. The low initiative of lecturers in online learning doesn’t provide maximum service, they just uploading lecture material, giving instructions and assignments without giving feedback and assessment and don’t think about learning experience for students. We need active learning regularly, we need meeting in virtual class even once in two weeks, but there is no PBI lecturer who hold synchronous learning.

The faculty should make more detailed and in-depth policies regarding online lectures. they should require virtual face-to-face lectures at least once every 2 weeks, giving students the choice of learning media, such as;

a.       Full Zoom Meet

b.      Full Google Meet

c.       Presentation via Zoom then continue with discussing via whatsapp

d.      Presentation via Google meet then continue with discussing via whatsapp

e.       Discussing via discord app

Besides that, the lecturers should provide more interesting learning model, make an active learning such as make a variety of challenges every week with fun activities. So that, students can produce good output and get ready to progress.

As a student, we understand that online learning needs to get support from various parties. Student support, lecturer and institutional support, interaction with faculty, feedback quality, course structure , meaningful contents, evaluation and assessment as crucial for successful online learning.

 

Sources :

-          Tribunnews.com ;

-          Timesindonesia.co.id ;

-          Journal of  “Facilitating Learning in Online Environtments” by Steven R. Aragon.

 


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