Do Students have Positive Psychology during Online Learning in Pandemic? A Narrative Study of Student’s Experience

Abstract

The COVID 19 pandemic has raised problems in higher education around the world. The transition of online learning methods presents challenges for lecturers, students, and institutions to deal with the situation. This narrative study explores students' online learning experiences from several institutions to fill out digital surveys and semi-structured interviews during the lockdown. For that purpose, a total of 51 students were selected by convenience sampling. The data is thematically analyzed regarding media usage, internal and external factors during online learning, and expectations of future online learning systems. The findings showed that 84.3% of students were active, enthusiastic, and participated in online lectures due to flexible time and motivated themselves to expand their technological knowledge. Students conduct online lectures from home using the WhatsApp platform (20.2%) and Google Classroom (3.2%), Zoom convergence video (21.6%), and Google Meet (17.9%). Difficulty interacting with peers and lecturers and inadequate network infrastructure were the dominant problems in the study. The determination of the policy for the implementation of online learning is discussed.