Online Learning and Platforms Favored in Physical Education Class during COVID-19 Era: Exploring Student' Perceptions

Hasanuddin Jumareng,Asmuddin Asmuddin,Edi Setiawan,Mela Aryani,Ruslan Abdul Gani,Ihsan Abdul Patah

doi:10.13189/saj.2021.090102

Abstract

The current COVID-19 pandemic becomes a problem for education, especially in the physical education learning process at the university level. The aim of this study is explore students' perceptions of online learning and preferred platforms in physical education classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The method in this research was a qualitative exploratory study by interview. There were as many as 60 students became the sample from Suryakancana and Halu Oleo University. Data collection is done by interviews to find out student perceptions about the online learning and preferred platforms in physical education classes. The results of this study showed the different perceptions of students regarding online learning and platform favored in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, from those who consider online learning to be very helpful and some are highlighting the obstacles faced when implementing online learning. Overall, students' perceptions consider online learning very important in the current era of COVID-19, and the majority of the platforms that students like the most are Zoom Meetings. The contribution of this research can provide information to teachers and lecturers about online learning and platforms that can be used in physical education classes, so that later learning outcomes from students can be achieved more optimally.

Highlights

In the current era of COVID-19 the use of online-based learning is increasing rapidly in the world [1], including Indonesia and become one of the important lessons [2], for lecturers to carry out education at the university level
According to Jeong and So [10] that online PE classes require special preparation to communicate and practice the values of physical education well, so that there is a need to analyze students' perceptions of online education in PE to ensure that online learning can be used to transfer theoretical and practical knowledge which is usually done directly to face
The urgency of this research problem is the importance of facts about the online learning process in PE classes, so that the findings from this research analysis can provide information for lecturers, teachers and practitioners as consideration or evaluation to carry out better online learning in the future and allow institutions to improve their services both in terms of quantity and quality

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Introduction

In the current era of COVID-19 the use of online-based learning is increasing rapidly in the world [1], including Indonesia and become one of the important lessons [2], for lecturers to carry out education at the university level. Research on online-based learning is becoming a trend among researchers, for example previous studies tried to analyze the factors that support or fail in online learning [3], [4], [5]. Another study tried to analyze the factors that influence student satisfaction in implementing online-based learning [6], [7]. A study conducted by Chuan Wei and Chou [2] tried to explore students' perceptions of online learning performance and satisfaction. This study aims to determine students' perceptions of online learning and preferred platforms in PE class during the COVID-19 era

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