Open AccessImplementation of the online learning at vocational high school during Covid-19: Between obligations and barriers
Author(s) -
Ummi Mukarromah,
Wiwik Wijayanti
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jurnal pendidikan vokasi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2476-9401
pISSN - 2088-2866
DOI - 10.21831/jpv.v11i1.37110
Subject(s) - vocational education , accommodation , documentation , soft skills , competence (human resources) , medical education , psychology , creativity , the internet , covid-19 , mathematics education , pedagogy , computer science , medicine , social psychology , neuroscience , world wide web , programming language , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Vocational schools are no exception to implementing the online learning policy during the covid-19 pandemic, including students majoring in hotel accommodation. This study aims to describe how the school develops its readiness to implement the policy, particularly its challenges. This study also aims to determine the constraints and impacts of implementing the policy. Using a qualitative method, this study involved two vocational schools in Yogyakarta that have Hotel Accommodation major. The heads of the departments, the productive teachers, and some students were invited to several interviews. Documentation was also used to obtain detailed information. The results were categorized into two aspects: hard-skills and soft-skills. From the first aspect, challenges that are faced as the impact of the policy are (1) online learning at vocational schools majoring in hotel accommodation requires facilities and infrastructure that do not include internet quota, (2) teacher digital competence and teacher creativity in carrying out learning need to be improved, (3) students feel bored with online learning, so motivation needs to be grown, (4) skills/ practice-based learning implemented in school alternately with a limited number of students. The second aspect indicated that the policy makes it difficult to develop students' soft skills that are also measured as the learning objective. These constraints are important to note for the implementation of the online learning policy to be successful.