How Did Lecturers and Students Adapt to online Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic?

Abstract

As most of the countries in the world, Indonesia Government now is applying Learning from Home (LFH) policy by implementing online learning. Lecturers and students must be able to adapt well. The adaptation can be an embodiment of the adult learning process (andragogy) and the application of Merdeka Belajar-Kampus Merdeka/Freedom Learning and Freedom Campus policy. This case study research aims to describe how lecturers and students in the Biology Department of Universitas Negeri Surabaya (Unesa) adapted to the implementation of online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was conducted during March-April 2020 involving 32 lecturers and 344 student respondents in the Biology Department, Unesa. The rapid survey was established on using Google form related to how they adapt to online learning as one of the learning facilities, the learning implementation, and their responses. The survey results were analyzed descriptively. The results show that lecturers and students, as learners andragogy, adapted learning with partner or individual learning. they made a joint agreement in choosing a variety of Learning Management Systems (LMS) and social media applications that will be suitable for them to conduct their online class. The type of LMS mostly used was google classroom (lecturer: 56.3%, students: 89.9%) while the application mostly used was WhatsApp (lecturer: 84.4%; student: 94.5%). The adaptation was done by establishing instructions on how to learn in an emergency period of COVID- 19 deployment. The learning was an embodiment of the Freedom Learning-Freedom Campus policy and it was focused on life skills education, considering the interests and conditions of students, some feedback was proposed by them, including the learning activity products. About 72% of lecturers and 56% of students responded the online learning positively.