The Portrait of Learning “Forced” Online in Indonesian Vocational Higher Education: Policy Recommendations
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220402.044How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Learning “forced” online; internet affordability; digital literacy; students’ workloads; cognitive engagement
- Abstract
This article presents the portrait of learning “forced” online in Indonesian Vocational Higher Education (VHE). It offers policy recommendations on dealing with online course content delivery in the vocational education context. It reports an exploratory case study that showcases the lecturers’ and students’ experiences, thoughts, and reflections attending a series of full-online learning practices during the Covid-19 outbreak. We collected all the data online through focus group interviews with institutional leaders, lecturers, heads of the academic affair, and the student’s representatives. As a result, the study raised some emerging issues; they are 1) the lecturers’ readiness and their quick adaptation to online learning technologies, 2) the unsuitability of vocational courses for virtual learning, 3) the internet accessibility and affordability, 4) the increase in students’ workload and stress, and 5) the course material understandability. Thus, this implication calls for critical online learning pedagogy and institutional policy design in mediating the delivery of the practical courses during the pandemic. The study revealed that learning “forced” online tend to ignore student cognitive engagement and the psychological and pedagogical aspects of learning. Furthermore, we propose some policy recommendations to cope with the issues
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Irmawati Irmawati AU - Ismail Anas AU - Faridah Amansyah AU - Andi Musdariah PY - 2022 DA - 2022/04/11 TI - The Portrait of Learning “Forced” Online in Indonesian Vocational Higher Education: Policy Recommendations BT - Proceedings of the 1st World Conference on Social and Humanities Research (W-SHARE 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 206 EP - 209 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220402.044 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220402.044 ID - Irmawati2022 ER -