It an undeniable condition that we have been passed by not only one or two months but more than a year, we emerged our entire of 2020 to be at home and today, when we will enter the first quarter of this year, 2021, we also still survive through go it. Where is it infected almost all of the whole countries on the earth, this virus firstly issued in Wuhan, China, it certainly spreads out massively and World Health Organization (WHO) declared it as a pandemic (WHO,2020). As well as Indonesia who had been contacted with this virus counted from March 2, 2020, as the first cases founded, because of that the government as soon as possible attempted to minimize the growth of cases including blocking the physical activities of teaching and learning at school from kindergartens to universities. It forcefully makes the students have to move their learning onto Online Learning during this pandemic. The implementation primary from traditional learning to an online platform has been conducted for more than a year back then, this policy provokes many pros and cons yet today, in spite of the effects that many parents, students, and teachers are complaints, this condition actually carried out a bunch of positive sides for some reasons after all.
Likewise, online learning, its means all of the teaching activities are taken by using an internet network. Going through this school closure accomplished flexible times for the whole student levels. It totally gave them big opportunities for them and it encouraging the student to catch it out. In the home, students have more time to be productive for instance dig their own interest, expand their knowledge, or focus in develop their ability. Actually, there are many ways to fill up the leisure time, despite from a lot of assignments that teacher was given – if they can be quite strict for themselves it is being possible as well as the positive side of being quarantined at home, for the children particularly they can be more intimate with their parents through the intense communications. This is the individual reasons that can be affected by their personal perspective.
Besides that, the adult learners can be having more precious time in this time. This phase is triggered to being their selves – enrich knowledge from around the world as easy as pie without any obstacles by means of. Today, a lot of events can be done over the online applications and a bouquet of good deals were coming to you – such as webinars that provide from international universities that sit on the 100th universities rankings in the world are free or anything event that held through online, a great chance to enhance knowledge from the excellent speakers, share a thought whether in a different perspective or different stereotype. It will be an amazing experience and it is another example of the positive sides of online learning in the educational aspect.
Alongside those reasons, there is another one that most necessary to exploring about the positive side of online learning. The essential thing that many parents are worried about is the fund, economic sides – if we are looked upon the students when they are learned in conventional ways there is will be much cash they should allocate. Many bills they should to pay – such as the cost of going to school, the cost to buy a snack and lunch, and so on. During this pandemic – online learning makes the bills slightly reduced. Although, in many cases also there are many reasons with different background of family wealth like the labor reduction or income decrease, in line with the significant bills parents should pay off this online learning is a bit affordable nevertheless it does not keen as the teachers should do – according to parents perspective.
Shortly, our new habits in this new phase as well as the latest rules from the government for the schools' closure that we must to adapted thoroughly, even it brings up a lot of cons from the beginning. To narrow the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak, we can not neglect this situation. So, we can look up this phase in the positive sides not only on the negative sides, sincerely, by seeing on those reasons from different spec such as the educational and economical aspect, whether it comes from individuals or parents that rarely discussed.
Panca Agustina
Djb, February 25 2021
