This study was developed to investigate parents' perceptions and attitudes towards distance learning in response to many schools' closures due to the COVID-19. This research employed a qualitative approach. The research subjects consisted of parents of elementary school students in the City of Gunungsitoli, Indonesia determined by purposive sampling technique, totaling twenty-four people. The data were collected using semi-structured interview techniques and analyzed using thematic analysis techniques. This study shows that distance learning or learning from home in a research context takes the form of online and offline learning. The learning approach implemented during the COVID-19 emergency must be lived and supported without other options for parents. Although parents do not have negative perceptions, distance learning has increased the economic, psychological, and social burden on parents or families. The lack of parental involvement and support in children's learning process at home is generally due to the lack of time and parents' inability to become teachers for their children. Actions to accompany and support children's learning process at home are carried out to provide internet packages, help children master the material, and participate in completing assignments or tests given by the teacher. The surprising finding from this study is the decline in children's learning motivation and cognitive abilities. Parents hope that distance learning is not extended.

This article discusses how to teachers ensure further learning - post-learning in the emergency of the Covid-19 pandemic can effectively increase student ownership and engagement in online learning. Most educational institutions' closure resulted in a dramatic change in education, marked by the emergence of distinctive e-learning, where teaching was conducted remotely and on digital platforms. The transition in the education system impacts various stakeholders, especially teachers and students, in various ways. One of the issues surrounding students' engagement in schools and the learning process became a hot topic again, considering that recently all countries in the world have been targeted by the spread of the global pandemic Covid-19. There is almost no learning process without the engagement and activeness of learners in the process itself. Students engaged in their learning are energized by curiosity, originality, and satisfying relationships, leading to better academic achievement. Through the theoretical review and content analysis, the authors explained that the ownership and engagement of learners in online learning could be achieved by combining several strategies. Teachers need to reflect on these strategies and how each falls into this area of engagement.

While adapting to the hybrid learning system, students often encounter various obstacles. It takes the ability to overcome it, or what is known as academic buoyancy. This study aims to analyze the role of essential psychological fulfillment as a mediator in the relationship between lecturer support and student academic buoyancy when carrying out hybrid learning. This type of research is quantitative research using an explanatory research approach. Data was collected through survey techniques carried out online using a Google form for two weeks. This study uses statistical analysis of mediation using the Heyes Process Macro. The results of the mediation analysis of 115 participants show that fulfillment of basic psychological needs partially mediates the relationship between lecturer support and academic buoyancy. Lecturer support is proven to have a direct influence on academic buoyancy. Partial mediation also shows that the fulfillment of basic psychological needs is also confirmed to play a psychological factor in explaining how lecturer support can affect academic buoyancy. Completion of these psychological needs will then affect the increase in academic buoyancy. It was concluded that the role of fulfilling basic psychological needs in bridging the relationship between lecturer support and academic buoyancy. Therefore, the implication of this research is the development of interventions with the target of manipulating support from lecturers to meet students' basic psychological needs.

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