Abstract
The teaching and learning process has a big revolution since Corona Virus Disease 19 (COVID19) has spread out to the world. Education is one of the sectors that have a mostly big impact on its condition. COVID 19 changes everything in the education system. The teaching and learning process which do face to face must be changed to an online system. Thus, in this research, the researchers want to identify the teacher’s challenges for doing online teaching and learning. The researchers also describe the strength and weaknesses of online learning based on teachers’ perceptions. This research used a qualitative approach because the researchers describe teacher challenges toward online learning and the easiness and the difficulties of online learning in the pandemic era. The participants of this research were 14 English teachers from a different level of education in South Kalimantan. The instruments used in this study consisted of 12 open-ended questionnaires made online using Google form. The result of the questionnaire that has filled out by the participants recorded in the researcher’s email, then based on this result the researchers describe the findings and related it to the relevant theory. The findings of this research are most of the teachers agree that the challenges to applying online learning are in facilitation such as internet connection, quota, the places of home living, and the process of online learning itself such as the teacher’s less in technology for designing interesting online learning activities, less communicative, lack of interaction, and fostering an effective online learning climate and for the strength and the weakness of online learning activities most of the teachers agree that the strength of online learning is flexible in time and place, thus the teaching and learning can conduct everywhere and anytime, for the weakness the teacher agree that online learning can’t conduct maximal pedagogy process in learning activities. Keywords: teacher, challenges, online learning, pandemic era
Highlights
The teaching and learning process has a big revolution since Corona Virus Disease 19 (COVID19) has spread out to the world
Most of the teachers can describe the meaning of online learning briefly
The teacher and the students meet in one place and one time, but in online learning they can’t, even they can use zoom as a media, but they are separated in distance
Summary
The teaching and learning process has a big revolution since Corona Virus Disease 19 (COVID19) has spread out to the world. If the teacher’ packaging is interesting for possible learning and based on the students’ characteristics, the learning objectives can be attainable even in online activities This condition is added by social distancing and PSBB which has been occurred in each province in Indonesia. This makes all of our activities were limited In this current situation; most of the teachers all over the world are struggling for conducting their teaching and learning process. Beggs (2000) as cited in Ghavifekr et al (2016) found that the lack of instruction was one of the top three obstacles to the use of ICT by teachers in teaching It is one of the big reasons why using ICT suddenly in education hard to reach.
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