Vocational School Teachers' Perceptions of E-Learning during COVID-19

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to obtain data from vocational school teachers about their perceptions of elearning learning activities in facing the COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents are vocational teachers who conduct learning activities using e-learning. This survey uses a questionnaire that consists of teacher knowledge of elearning, the preparation, the application, and evaluation of learning using e-learning. This research is descriptive with a survey method. Researchers distributed questionnaires to vocational high school teachers in West Java using Google Form from September to October 2020. There are 15 vocational schools with a total of 82 teachers. After that, the researchers analyzed the collected data. The results show that vocational school teachers perceive e-learning learning as a learning medium using the internet network. Furthermore, for the perception of vocational school teachers in preparing for e-learning learning, 60% state that they do not encounter problems, 71% of teachers mention it is easy to implement. However, as for the perception of vocational teachers in the e-learning evaluation is 73% state that e-learning still consists of learning content that is difficult for students to understand. The findings show the necessity of vocational teachers to have sufficient preparation when implementing e-learning to achieve the learning objectives.