Improvement of E-Learning on Students Learning Motivation during Covid-19 Pandemic

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VII, Issue VIII, August 2020 | ISSN 2321–2705

Improvement of E-Learning on Students Learning Motivation during Covid-19 Pandemic

Anisah¹, Syahid Suhandi Aziz², Ferdian Ari Bowo^3
 1,2,3Universitas Jayabaya, Jakarta-Indonesia, 

Abstract: The purpose of this research is to see pandemic policies and phenomena whose impact forces the world of higher education to change service work patterns from conventional to online-based services, one of which is to use e-learning which has an impact on student learning motivation. The research used a correlational descriptive method. The research was done in the semester of January-May of 2020 at the Faculty of Engineering Jayabaya University. Using the Slovin technique for 30 respondents, the primary data was closed-ended questionnaires. The research found that e-learning can affect the learning motivation of students. Based on the test, e-learning positively affects and improves the learning motivation of students. Learning motivation of students to use e-learning is a critical factor in the learning process. This is because the use of interactive features in the e-learning can boost motivation and thus providing a better learning result.

Keywords: E-learning, motivation learning, student.

I. INTRODUCTION

Since the advent of the COVID-19 outbreak and the enforcement of social and physical distancing, all Indonesian higher universities, including Universitas Jayabaya, have implemented outright the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture’s Circular Letter No. 3 of 2020 to bring the learning-teaching activities to home. Undoubtedly, the policy is motivated by the increasing number of victims and uncontrolled widespread all over Indonesia.
All academic activities that were typically carried out at college should be done from home. Not only students but also the lecturers and teaching workers should work from home for supporting the prevention of and accelerating the alleviation process of the COVID-19 outbreak. This massive and immediate effect of both the pandemic phenomenon and the policy to mitigate it has imposed higher education to alter their work patterns from conventional to online-based service. A means that is picked the most as the medium for the new learning process is e-learning.

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