Proceedings of the 2nd Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences, BIS-HSS 2020, 18 November 2020, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia

Research Article

Online Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Opportunities and challenges

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.18-11-2020.2311736,
        author={Athia Fidian and Zulfikar Bagus Pambuko and Lintang Muliawanti and Fitriana Yuliastuti},
        title={Online Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Opportunities and challenges},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences, BIS-HSS 2020, 18 November 2020, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={BIS-HSS},
        year={2021},
        month={9},
        keywords={online learning online learning opportunities online learning challenges},
        doi={10.4108/eai.18-11-2020.2311736}
    }
    
  • Athia Fidian
    Zulfikar Bagus Pambuko
    Lintang Muliawanti
    Fitriana Yuliastuti
    Year: 2021
    Online Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Opportunities and challenges
    BIS-HSS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.18-11-2020.2311736
Athia Fidian1,*, Zulfikar Bagus Pambuko2, Lintang Muliawanti3, Fitriana Yuliastuti4
  • 1: Department of Nursing Science, Universitas Muhammadiyah, Magelang, Indonesia
  • 2: Department of Islamic Economics Law, Universitas Muhammadiyah, Magelang, Indonesia
  • 3: Department of Communication Studies, Universitas Muhammadiyah, Magelang, Indonesia
  • 4: Department of Pharmacy, Universitas Muhammadiyah, Magelang, Indonesia
*Contact email: athiafidian@ummgl.ac.id

Abstract

Covid-19 has had a huge impact on various fields, including the education’s system. A sudden pandemic situation has an impact on changing the pattern of the learning system. Face-to-face offline learning is turning into distance learning through online learning. Behind the opportunities of online learning, this sudden change of course raises some problems. This article aims to review articles about the challenges and opportunities for online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Literature study of several research articles on online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic published in 2020 was conducted as a research method. The results of the review show that there are challenges and opportunities from the learning journey during Covid-19. Opportunities from online learning include flexible learning that can be done anytime and anywhere, not limited to place and time, student ideas that are expressed systematically and explicitly, student freedom to choose courses to follow and which assignments to do first, also learning documentation saved well. However, several challenges were also found, such as unstable internet access, the limitation of internet quota, availability of facilities, creativity of educators, limited participants in the courses, less interactive communication and others.