Beyond COVID-19 in Indonesia

Communication on the university library websites and students’ scientific information-seeking during the Covid-19 outbreak: A comparison of four Asian countries

“…The results of this research further confirm that a dialogical website, adopting McCroskey, Valencia, and Richmond (2004), is part of an instructional environment whose role is to encourage a positive academic climate, by generating satisfaction through interactive facilities in searching for scientific information. It was affirmed by Afrilyasanti and Basthomi (2022) while conducting research in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic, that teachers and students were more satisfied with the interactive learning system. In the current research, when all interactions can only be done online, a dialogical website can generate satisfaction because it is able to posit humans as a generative-mechanism (humans are not fully machines because they still have the ability to produce or reproduce reality) in the learning process.…”

“…From a previous survey in Indonesia, it was also found that online communication was indeed not a substitute for direct face-to-face communication so that the learning method is more practical in the form of a blended mode during the Covid-19 outbreak, i.e. the combination between online and off-line learning (Afrilyasanti and Basthomi, 2022).…”

“…The future of education lies in distance learning and this creates a need to change the role of traditional libraries. Distance learning refers to an interactive educational process of material delivery and quick learning between students and teacher that is separated by physical distance and uses communication technology and the internet (Afrilyasanti and Basthomi, 2022).…”