The Effects of Various Modes of Online Learning on Learning Results

Abstract

The demand for online learning particularly in a college is necessity to be developed and implemented as an alternative method of delivery learning materials in this millennial era. Nowadays, the developments are strongly supported by the advancement of Information Technology and Communication (ICT) and Multimedia Technology. Nevertheless, during the development or engineering process of the online learning, the principles of interactive, creative and effective learning deserve attention. The challenge now is the suitable mode of online learning decided to be developed and applied so that the learning process is conducted effectively. There are few things to be considered in the development of the learning, such as: how large the percentages of the number of online meetings are in comparison to face-to-face meetings and how the content type. This study aims to investigate the effects of various modes of online learning to the learning result. There are some teaching methods or modes namely face-to-face, blended, web, and online learning. This experiment is conducted to implement all the same learning materials and is available online for the four online learning modes. The research subject observed is the students of ITB STIKOM BALI who attend the Multimedia Learning course in odd semester 2019/2020. There are four classes with 108 students and each class is given a different mode of online learning. The method of analysis of this study is the statistical analysis, ANCOVA Univariate, on which 1 factor with 4 treatments. The result of this study revealed that there is equality of the students’ learning results toward the four modes of online learning. Therefore, the development of online learning for conceptual types of teaching materials or the achievement of student learning at the level of understanding is recommended.