Student Readiness to Accomplish Practical Assignments in Online Learning

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the implementation of practical assignments in online learning by students. This research method is a survey through an instrument in the form of a questionnaire with 30 questions developed based on theory. Respondents in this study were 550 students of the Early Childhood Education (ECE) study program in Universitas Terbuka (UT) from various regions in Indonesia. The results of this study are: 1) The covid-19 pandemic caused faceto-face tutorials to change modes to web tutorial so that the practical tasks in the practice court are not too different from the tutorial online (2) Online learning through web tutorial provides several advantages in general: IT capabilities, especially in the use of Microsoft Teams, google drive and youtube, (3) The weaknesses of web tutorial experienced by students in completing tasks: need to signal and pulse enough data, difficulty understanding the explanation of tutors. The suggestion from this research is that students' digital skills and literacy still need to be improved so that they can attend lectures well, especially for online lectures.