Challenges of Online Class Amid the Pandemic of the Covid 19

Abstract

During the Pandemic Covid 19 outbreak, online learning has become the only medium for learning activities. The face to face classroom has been moved to an online classroom instantly without preparing the readiness of students, teacher, and school. Thus, this research aims at investigating the barriers of online learning class amid the pandemic of Covid 19 in English Department, Politeknik Negeri Padang. This is a qualitative study. The data taken from interview and observation. The respondents of this research are the lecturers of the English Department of Politeknik Negeri Padang who teach Writing for Media course and the 4th semester students who take Writing for Media class in the even semester this year. 2 majors challenge reported are the setting of online class and the technology. Formulating the online class syllabus with the proper activity and delivering style becomes the greatest teacher challenge. Then, the limitation of internet facilities is general problem for the students live in remote area.

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“…SARS-Cov-2 (Covid-19) became a global pandemic, with major implications for the world of education (Bourgault et al, 2022;Owusu-Fordjour et al, 2020), the impact felt was a shift in the learning system to online (Herawati et al, 2022;Schrenk et al, 2021). This is a big challenge for teachers to carry out the learning process without meeting face-to-face (Frei-Landau & Avidov-Ungar, 2022; Sumira et al, 2021) so the emergence of innovation in the form of learning media (Küsel et al, 2020) is needed by teachers and educational institutions, one of the relevant innovations used in the online learning process is the application of digital learning media (Chick et al, 2020). The use of digital learning media is an obligation for every teacher responding to the challenges of the times.…”