STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON THE EFFECT OF ONLINE LEARNING DURING

The educational system across the world has been affected due to outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, this new phenomenon forced teachers and students to do teaching and learning process from home. The purpose of writing this study was to investigate the students' perceptions of online learning has been implemented and the factors that influenced these perceptions. The instrument to collect the data was a questionnaire distributed using google form. The participants, 60 students of Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi Migas, filled the survey online to convey their perception on the effect of online learning during Covid-19. The finding of this study revealed that students positively accepted this new learning system although they have found some problems such as difficulty in using application and lack of the internet connection.


INTRODUCTION
The phenomenon of COVId-19 pandemic has made the largest disruption for the system of teaching and learning process history. In 2020, the United Nations stated that Covid-19 was affecting nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 190 countries and all continents, closures of schools and other learning spaces have impacted 94 percent of the world's student population.
Corona virus outbreak has impacted the education sector, this pandemic caused educational gaps for children, teenagers, or adults. They are encouraged to do learning from home, including Indonesia's education sector.
The closure of schools and school activities from primary to university level thorough Indonesia was also affecting STT-Migas Balikpapan, students were required to learn online from home because of the cessation of direct learning face to face in class to break the chain and exposure to the corona virus. The government across nations emphasized and encouraged the use of online resources to support students (Hasan & Khan, 2020). ZOOM, Google Meet, Say Namaste, as well as learning management systems like Moodle, Blackboard etc.
There are some studies performed by researchers on the performance of online learning during Covid-19 pandemic. (Sari et al., 2020) found that student's perception of online learning used varied media or application in course has a good category for implementation. Online learning was very helpful, even not entirely (Sujarwo et al, 2020). Different from Sari and Sujarwo, (Susila et al., 2020) said that some students got lack of the internet connection during online learning. In addition to Susila, (Nasution & Ahmad, 2020) discovered that students encountered difficulties in internet access, in communicating with lecturers, and in doing and collecting assignments when doing leaning online.
In addition to those previous findings, this study aims at investigating the students' perception on their online learning during COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the mentioned perspective could be an input for lecturers and institutions to improve online learning quality.
Thus, the purpose of this study is to know the students' perception on the effect of online learning during Covid-19

METHOD
The method of this study was a qualitative descriptive by focusing on survey to know the students' perception on the effect of online learning during Covid-19. Gunawan, 2017in Sujarwo, et al (2020 stated that Survey techniques are used to gather information from a number of people about a particular topic or issue. The number of populations were 60 second semester students of D3 Teknik Instrumentasi and Elektronika Migas and D3 Teknik Pengolahan Migas 2019/2020. The instrument in this study was a questionnaire that was obtained by google form. A questionnaire was utilized to collect data from sample to describe about perspective of using online learning during Covid-19. The questionnaire consisted of 12 questions adopted from Nasution & Ahmad (2020), as open-close-ended questionnaire. The analysis data was obtained by google form by analyzing participants' respondents to know their perspective to use online learning, in order to obtain data needed, then data were analyzed and describe to obtain answer to questions. showed that the percentage of students who chose strongly agree was 41,4%, agree was 55,5%, and disagree was 3,4%. The highest percentage was in agree category. It indicated that most of the students have been applying online learning during COVID-19 pandemic. Khan., et al (2021) believed that e-learning technology enables easy information access of study from any geographical location which is not possible in case of conventional face to face-learning. asking if online learning helps the smooth process of lectures showed that the percentage of students who chose strongly agree was 19%, agree was 53,4%, disagree was 25,9%, and strongly disagree was 1,9%. It indicated that some of the students agree that online learning helps smooth process of lecture. Djamdjuri and Kamilah (2020) stated that teaching and learning online activities which utilizes various kinds of technology as learning media so that teaching and learning is carried out properly and smoothly.  Figure 3 showed that the percentage of students who chose strongly agree was 25,5%, agree was 44,1%, and disagree was 30,3%. We got a very large percentage (69.1%) when combining the students' answer of agree and strongly agree. It can be concluded that the students need extra financial burden for internet quota. Similar to Naserly (2020) who also found that the use of some apps like using cloud zoom meeting for online learning has the disadvantage of wasteful internet quota. lectures. The percentage of students who chose mostly agree was 55.9%, strongly agree was 25.4%, disagree was 15,3% and strongly disagree was 3,4%. It revealed that the students find signal difficulties in doing online learning. They reported that they were sometimes unable to attend the class during online classes due to network issue, error connection, poor audio, and video quality (Nambiar, 2020). This analysis informed us that mostly teaching learning online in STT-Migas was suitable with syllabus. Appropriate lecture materials will affect student learning outcomes (Khoza, 2013)  In the sixth questions regarding understand material provided by the lecturer during online learning, 13,1% students chose strongly agree, 66,1% students chose agree, 16,9% students chose disagree, and 3,4% students chose strongly disagree. It can be inferred that more than half of the students understood the material better.  Figure 7 about the question difficulty to handle time to teach online informed that 5 students or 8,6% chose strongly agree, 29 students or 50% chose agree, 22 students or 37,9% chose disagree, and 2 students or 3,4 % chose strongly disagree. In this question, the most dominant answer was agree; the students encountered difficulties in managing lecture time. that 7 students or 11,9% answered strongly agree, 33 students or 55,9% answered agree, and 19 students or 32,2% answered disagree. It indicated that the students got difficulty in communicating with the lecture.  Figure 9 about difficulty finding references or reading material during online learning described that 11 students or 18,6% answered strongly agree, 24 students or 40,7% answered agree, 20 students or 33,9% answered disagree, and 4 students or 18,6% answered strongly disagree. It can be inferred that they found difficulty in finding reference or reading material during online learning. we discovered that 16,9% students chose strongly agree, 45,8% students chose agree, 28,8% students chose disagree, and 8,5% students chose strongly disagree. From the analysis we concluded that it was difficult for the students to do assignment. Figure 11. Difficulty using online applications In the eleventh question about difficulty using online application, the students chose strongly agree was 6,9%, the students chose agree was 44,8%, the students chose disagree was 44,8%, and the students chose strongly disagree was 3,4%. Based on these results, we found that 26 students were agree that the online application was difficult while 26 students were disagree about it. students or 37,3% chose agree, 25 students or 42,4% chose disagree, and 10 students or 16,9% chose strongly disagree. It concluded that the students did not have any trouble in collecting assignment. For more details, all questions and the frequency of student answers can be seen in table 1. This discussion was derived from the data analysis that explained in the previous section. Based on the findings, the results of this study showed that the most items chosen in three questions were item 4, 5, and 6. The students believed that online learning mode provided them flexibility to study at the time convenient to the learner. Therefore, necessary measures should be adopted for improving the quality of online learning to help with better learning of students during the phase of Covid-19 pandemic. In other side, online learning was carried out in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the institutional difficulties that students faced, such as good internet connectivity, financial issues, and the introduction of online learning for students. This finding is in line with (Sujarwo et al., 2020), in their results showed that online learning has been well accepted by the students, they found to be inclined toward online learning tools interact with each other and educator as well. Although have negative factors such as lack of financial supports and internet access availability.

CONCLUSION
This result of this study indicated that online learning technology enabled students to access easy information leading to positive attitude formation of students towards it. The study affirmed the usefulness of online learning such as ease of study from any geographical location which is not possible in case of conventional face to face-learning, suitability with the syllabus and understand material clearly. They considered online learning to be very helpful, although not entirely efficient such as trouble collecting assignment, poor connectivity, burdened with quota online etc. For future researcher who have the same interest to find out students' perception on the effect of online learning during Covid-19, the result of this study is expected to lead the next researcher who conduct a similar topic of research as the reference or comparison that might relevant to their researchers. Furthermore, they are expected to focus their study on more rigorous data analysis method, involve more subjects and contrasting more variables.