Students’ Perception of Mental Load in Multidisciplinary Workshop during Pandemic Covid-19 Era (Case Study: Interior Design and Industrial Engineering Students of Universitas Kristen Maranatha, Bandung, Indonesia)

Abstract

The Ministry of Education and Culture Republic of Indonesia changed the higher education concept to achieve the world class education equality considerably at the same time with the outbreak of COVID-19. Therefore a sudden change in learning method change drastically whether it is using synchronous or asynchronous method due to time and capacity availability. Thus, student’s mental load arguably enhance in this current situation and therefore it is assumed that the evaluation of the new way of distance learning study never be done especially for collaborative study between department based on different faculty in Indonesia. This study used NASA-TLX paper based as the inventory instrument, evaluated and understood the current learning situation while the collaborative events with problem based assignment took place. All of the workshop activities were given and reported online with the duration of eight weeks from the beginning to the end. From the result, it was shown that the collaborative workshop implementation did not perform any different perception of the two departments who were originally came from science and social. The participants were equally assumed to participate seriously because they came from the 3rd semester’s mandatory subject. Other implication related to academic performance, reduces of team member which not fully cooperated, credit load taken in the current semester and the flexibility in doing individual or team assignment are discussed.