STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN ONLINE LEARNING DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC ERA: A CASE STUDY
The Covid-19 pandemic, or coronavirus pandemic
has been declared by World Health
Organization in March
2020. As the
data in the
world indicate the
increasement of coverage and
impacts of this contagious and lethal disease, many countries enact national
emergency state. Indonesia
as one of
countries with high
infected population has
also implemented some policy reforms in many sectors. In education
sector, a new policy has been regulated in teaching and learning system. The
Government of Indonesia Republic through
The Ministry of
Education and Culture
has stipulated online
teaching and learning processes
as one panacea with executing physical distancing program to depress the
pandemic outbreak. Teachers and students are regulated to conduct the teaching
and learning processes from face-to-face
mode into online one (Ministry of Education and Culture, 2020).
The online learning
regulation is in
force to all
education institutions. It is
undertaken the learning
from traditionally face-to-face
approaches to remotely
digital platforms. This sudden transformation has been debatable due to
the quality of education resulted.
Some previous studies
revealed that the
online learning during
the Covid-19 pandemic era in
Indonesia has caused advantages while others has caused disadvantages. On one
hand, online learning was reported beneficial for students because they had
high interaction to rich learning materials regardless time and place as well
as high opportunity to experience digital learning programs (Firman &
Rahayu, 2020; Hidayat & Noeraida, 2020;
Simamora, 2020). Moreover,
the high interaction
also occurred in the forms
of virtual communication among teachers - students, and students -
students which resulted vast capacity of
sharing information and
experience (Pakpahan &
Fitriani, 2020; Rochman &
Pertiwi, 2020). As the online teaching and learning processes used computer
technology, it increased enthusiasm of both teachers and students to
participate which, in turn,
increased their computer
skills too (Dasrun,
2020; Khasanah, Pramudibyanto, & Widuroyekti, 2020).
On the other
hand, online learning
was also described
bringing disadvantages. The students claimed that online learning has
caused them some health problems
like fatigue, headache, or fever because they had too many assignments to do in short time. Some also
declared that they had impairment eyesight due to long duration starring at
computers or phones
screens. Students also
faced hardship in
financial because they had to buy big credit for online quota (Simamora,
2020). However, these advantages and disadvantages which determined the students’ success in
learning were closely related to students’ motivation in online learning during
the pandemic.
Interestingly,
both advantages and
disadvantages were influenced
by students’ motivation. The
motivation regarding online
learning during the
coronavirus outbreak was reported
contributing inconsistent effects
in higher education,
especially in Indonesian
universities. The online learning has caused lack motivation for some students
to learn
whereas others were
highly motivated. Cahyani,
Listiana, & Larasati
(2020), Rachmat (2020) and
Simamora (2020) in
their study reported
that students with
lack motivation were greatly affected by external factors like learning
environment, learning time, and
instrumental supports which in
turn affected the
achievement. As the
online learning was conducted
from home, many parents
thought they still
could ask help
in doing households from
their children in
their online learning
time. Improper internet connection and gadgets to access the
distance learning were also caused frustration. On the contrary, Fitriyani,
Fauzi, & Sari (2020) and Simamora (2020) argued that intrinsic factors highly
motivated university students
in online learning.
The enthusiasm and ambition to understand and add new
knowledge have driven them to study hard even via online. In addition,
resilience and psychological condition also
favorably assisted them to have success online learning.
Having
interesting facts regarding
inconsistency effects of
motivation in online learning during
the Covid-19 pandemic
era in higher
education context, this
study is intended to know the
motivation of students in higher vocational institution/polytechnics, in this
case students of
English Department (ED)
toward their online
learning. Therefore, this study is
trying to reveal the answer of the
following question: what are the students’ motivation in ED at Polsri in online
learning during the Covid-19 pandemic era?
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