Conducting Online Learning: What to do? (A Preliminary Study of Information Technology Department Students)

Abstract

Teaching and learning practices in Indonesia changed by the global spread of Covid-19 that constrain the teaching practices nationwide to virtual. The conventional teaching and learning activity where students and lecturers meet in a classroom for lecturing and having discussion were no longer possible. Of a sudden, all the teaching and learning practices had to be done online. This critical situation leads to confusion and distress that experience by both educators and learners. This paper aims to investigate online learning practices in the Information Technology Department, State Polytechnic of Malang during the even semester of 2020/2021 and find out the proper online learning practices from the students' feedback. Some Information Technology Department students in 4^th grade become the respondent that taken the English for Job Preparation subject. The results show that the students' little experience in online learning can be overcome by creating a suitable learning atmosphere for students.