An Analysis of Innovative Online Learning Facing The 21st Century in The Covid-19 Pandemic in Elementary Schools in Surakarta

Abstract

Online learning has been a demand in the education world. Some platforms are being utilized to support online learning in the Covid-19 pandemic. This research aims to analyse online learning during school from home (SFH) due to the Covid-19 pandemic as the challenge to realize the digitalization era in the education field in the 21st century. This research uses a quasi-experiment method. A quasi-experiment method conducts pre-test - post-test group designs. The populations of this research are all Elementary School teachers in Surakarta which consist of 166 Elementary Schools with a total of 851 teachers. Samples used in this research are the teachers of grade 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th amount of 40 teachers. The samples have been decided through purposive sampling. There are 20 teachers including experiment classes i.e. Elementary Schools in Laweyan and Banjarsari district, amount 20 teachers including control classes i.e. Elementary School in Banjarsari and Pasar Kliwon district. In order to obtain the effectiveness of innovative online learning on the learning quality of the elementary schools, this research counts the normalized n gain score. The result of this research shows that the implementation of innovative online learning 0n the learning process in the elementary school can improve the quality of learning to accelerate the digitalization era in the education field in the 21st century during the Covid-19 pandemic. The learning quality has improved because the teachers implement innovation in online learning with Gain score of 0.72 that belongs to the high category.