Students’ Preparedness to Learn in e-Learning Environment and their Perception on The MPKT Lecturers’ Readiness to Manage Online Class

Abstract

Article history: Received: 11 January, 2020 Accepted: 23 February, 2021 Online: 17 March, 2021 This study has two objectives: to determine the level of readiness of first-year undergraduate students at the Universitas Indonesia (UI) and to investigate student’s perception of MPKT (Integrated Character Development course) lecturers’ readiness to manage online learning class. Proportional cluster sampling was applied, and 1466 freshmen from thirteen faculties participated. Data clustering and imputation of missing values were utilized to analysis the data. Clustering based on gender, faculty, previous elearning experience ** were applied. The study shows that students perceived themselves as being ready to learn in an e-learning environment except Computer Science students who have been more exposed to e-learning and implemented online collaborative learning. Most students agree that MPKT lecturers are able to teach well except those of the Faculty of Computer Science, Faculty of Pharmacy, and Faculty of Social and Political Sciences who think that the teaching ability of lecturers need to be improved. Recommendations and future research topics are proposed based on the study results and in-depth interviews with some experienced online lecturers.