Maulana Malik Irsyad, Slamet Suyanto, Ikhsanudin
Emergency learning in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic is a teaching practice that was done by teachers in the world. In Indonesia, some teachers are unprepared by the sudden change of teaching practice in class. This study aims to know the teacher's perception on the impact of emergency online learning in high school biology classes. This study is a survey, focused on 9 teachers as the respondents sampled by convenience sampling. Data collection was done through a closed questionnaire and open questionnaire. The study result showed that biology teachers have a positive perception about the emergency online learning that was done in COVID-19 pandemic. The teachers believe that emergency online learning is effective to reach cognitive objective in learning process, it also can improve teacher's knowledge about technology in education. However, there are difficulties in doing emergency online learning such as the lack of internet services, difficult in managing class, and inequality of school's resources. Online learning can be used as an alternative to teach in emergency time, but it still has problems that need to be anticipated. To solve the problem, there should be support from all education stakeholders, and the teacher also should increase their competences in teaching with technology. © 2024 Author(s).
Department of Biology Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Department of Vocational Education of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Education, Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa, Banten, Indonesia
