[Final Exam] Challenges and Opportunities of Online Learning

    The globe was horrified at the start of 2020 by a fatal outbreak, Corona Virus Disease, also known as COVID-19. Starting in China, the corona virus soon spread to practically every country on the planet.  Many deaths were reported in practically every region of Indonesia. Of course, this is upsetting for everyone. COVID-19 has had an impact on the world of education. Learning changed massively in an instant. Learning that begins in person or face-to-face must be completed online or via distance learning from home. This creates new difficulties and opportunities for educators and students.

    Today's educational environment has enabled technology to carry out the teaching and learning process. To get knowledge, we don't have to bother looking for reference books in bookshops or libraries, which takes a long time and requires money to purchase the book. With a cellphone and an internet connection, anyone could easily use it to discover learning materials on the internet. E-Learning refers to online learning. This can be accomplished through interactive video conversations or by delivering digital course content. Learning can be done remotely with a digital-based learning system. Furthermore, students can access teaching materials at any time and from any location.

    The benefits of digital-based learning include the fact that it is an effective, rapid, and credible communication medium for providing e-learning information from educators (teachers or lecturers), that it covers a broad area, and that it can be accessed at any time and from any location. As a result, this digital-based learning is worldwide and accessible from any location. This digital-based learning reduces time and place constraints associated with typical classroom characteristics by utilizing communication modalities such as email and online conversations, which students may access 24 hours a day.

    In addition to the benefits of digital-based learning, there are also drawbacks, such as the tendency to disregard academic or social components, the changing role of teachers, and what was once thought to be the only source of learning. Furthermore, students who lack high learning motivation are more likely to fail since they are more dominated by a sense of laziness to learn new things. Next, in our area, not all locations have internet access, therefore this digital-based learning will be impeded by the lack of an online network. The second disadvantage is a lack of interaction between teachers and students, as well as among students themselves. This absence of engagement might hamper value building in the teaching and learning process.

    The COVID-19 pandemic causes a variety of difficulties and hurdles in many areas of life, including education. Diverse challenges and limitations encountered in the field of education have given rise to various forms of learning innovation at various levels of education.As a result, it is possible to infer that the events of the corona outbreak not only exposed humanity to new obstacles, but also created new opportunities for the growth of creativity and innovation in the field of education, particularly the learning element. Creativity and learning innovation in the digital age will produce quality graduates because they have been able to transform the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic into opportunities for the emergence of various creativity and innovations in the field of education, particularly the learning aspect.

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