Exploring Benefits and Obstacles of Online Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Efl Students' Experiences

Abstract

since the Covid-19 outbreak all of the institutions in Indonesia are forced to use online learning. The sudden use of online learning causes many obstacles. There are many previous studies explored the obstacles of online learning. However, this present study aims to find out the benefits and obstacles from the students’ experiences during online learning in the pandemic Covid-19. This present study is a qualitative research design which is used thematic analysis. Since the students’ characteristics and other factors are different with the previous studies, this present studies have different findings. The benefits that students can get from online learning experiences are students become technology literate, the learning become accessible and flexible, increase positive attitudes, and more efficient. Nevertheless, the obstacles are technology illiterate thus, students have difficulties to use online learning platform, the course material is less understandable, laziness, lack of communication among the students, time management, less lecturer’s guide, a lot of assignments, and cheating during the examination.

Predicting undergraduate students' perspectives on the E-learning obstacles with artificial neural networks

“…The weakness of students in responding and interacting with eLearning is due to the lack of proficiency in the skills to use it, and the university does not offer courses to train them in investing time skills. This finding aligns with some studies, such as the study of Alqudah et al [4], Borayah, Aqoon [17], Herwiana, Laili [18]. However, the study of Rashid, Yadav [16] does not align with the result of this study, which indicated that students had skills to use the platform and navigate to get information about the subject content.…”

“…These results show that undergraduate students have a negative perspective on eLearning. The recent study's results are inconsistent with previous studies' outcomes, such as Alqudah, Jamal, Saleh, Khader, Obeidat [4], that stated that participants were dissatisfied with eLearning as the sole method [18] and [3]. Learning online from the students' perspectives has positively influenced Corona Pandemic.…”

“…The result agrees with the results of Borayah, Aqoon [17], Al-Edwan, Abueita [11], Alnagar [15], Etfita etal. [3] and [18] studies. Yet, in the student's place, it showed no significant difference between majors at the significance level (0.05) since the (F) value reached (.539).…”

“…The results showed that the main barriers from the student's perspective were the availability of material resources and equipment, the level of training and education, and the availability of platforms and programs to achieve average e-education. Herwiana, Laili [18] explored the benefits and pitfalls of student experiences while learning online during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was a qualitative research design with an objective analysis.…”

The Implementation of Student Exchange Program in Higher Education: The Study in a University in Indonesia

“…In this study, researchers were able to observe learning using google meet twice. So it can be observed that in the two meetings students had a strong argument that they had difficulty joining google meet because the network was unstable, besides that for the same reason they also turned off their camera features, so that learning seemed to only run in one direction (Herwiana & Laili, 2022), the lecturer gave material without having two-way interaction with students.…”