Online Learning for Vocational Education: Students’ Difficulties and Advantages in Automotive Electrical System Subject and General Issues

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10.2991/978-2-494069-47-3_37How to use a DOI?

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Online learning; Vocational education; Students difficulties and advantages

Abstract

This research aims to study the difficulties and advantages of online learning, reveal student responses regarding the content of online learning materials, the tasks given, the learning strategies used, and the online learning systems used. This research is a casestudy research conducted in the automotive electrical system course. Learning is carried out 16 times face-to-face online in one semester. Of the 16 meetings, learning was carried out 14 times, one mid-semester exam, and one semester end exam. Research data were collected through open questionnaires given to students. The questionnaire includes the content of learning materials, assignments given, learning strategies, and the online learning system. The result shows that the contents of the material in online learning given for one semester are very clear, detailed, quality, easy to understand, very interesting. The exercises given online are clear, in accordance with the online material provided, very interesting, the exercises encourage and help students listen and understand the material. Students easily understand the material, the tasks given make it easy to understand the learning material, learning is very effective because the presentation of material starts from simple to complex. Systems used in online learning can delivery all of material through videos facilitated by web learning system, LMS and material linked to YouTube channel are very interesting, efficient for theory learning, and the online learning platforms used is very helpful in learning management. On the other hand, there are students’ difficulties found, including the long video duration which causes boredom, fatigue, and consumes internet quota. The internet signal which is sometimes weak in an area makes it difficult to access online learning materials and manage the assigned tasks.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dwi Widjanarko
AU  - Muhammad Khumaedi
AU  - Ahmad Roziqin
AU  - Adhetya Kurniawan
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/16
TI  - Online Learning for Vocational Education: Students’ Difficulties and Advantages in Automotive Electrical System Subject and General Issues
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Vocational Education International Conference (VEIC 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 313
EP  - 321
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-47-3_37
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-47-3_37
ID  - Widjanarko2022
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