An Analysis of Online Learning and Student Motivation during The Covid-19 Pandemic (Study Case from Students at D3 Administration Business Study Program, State Polytechnic of Bengkalis year class of 2019 and 2020)

Abstract

The learning process in an institution during the Covid-19 Pandemic has many matters
to face. The Covid-19 Pandemic has put the world into the worst situation, including Indonesia.
The learning process during the Covid-19 Pandemic had many things to do to take action in
preventing wider transmission, particularly in the education sector. Regarding this research,
the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of Indonesia has taken a firm
stance through a few circular letters relating to the education policies in the emergency period
of the spread of Covid-19. This paper, further, identifies the implementation of education
policies during the Covid-19 Pandemic in terms of the distance learning policies. The distance
learning process is a kind of a solution that is not achieved yet its full implementation due to
few things that have to consider. The purpose of writing this article is to find and study the
problems in learning activities during a pandemic toward 120 students from D3 Administration
Business Study Program, State Polytechnic of Bengkalis year class of 2019 and 2020 through
the questionnaire, interview, documentation, and observation to find maximal result and to find
another way of students learning process thus they can study interestingly and actively. This
research, moreover, uses a Descriptive approach that affects various responses and changes
to the learning system that effects the learning and understanding development to respond to
material presented.