What Students Say and Do to Support Their Digital Learning Umi Rachmawati
Unimma
Abstract
Students with their various learning styles have no choice to conduct their digital learning through their autonomous learning skills. This study presents the investigation on the students^ perception and their behavior to their autonomous digital learning activity. This study is a case study in relation to Covid-19 learning activities. There are 45 university students enrolled in this study with the same style of instructional model. From the data, it can be concluded that there are six aspects considered by the students. They are process, motivation, social media applications, access, effectiveness, and personal preference. From the six aspects, process is mostly highlighted by the students. They are full conscious that their digital learning requires their independence in achieving the learning goals. The social media application, e-learning platform and What^s Apps, are also considered by the students as one aspect that influence their learning. The internet access is viewed as one crucial problems of the students^ digital learning since most of the students live in rural areas. Based on the students^ responses on their learning motivation, the students share that they felt unmotivated and less focus on the online learning. Lastly, the learning is less effective for the students as they have more limitation to the internet connection. However, the students realize that they have to be more active to update themselves in order to keep up with the changes given by the lecturers. Therefore, a number of suggestions and implications are discussed around digital literacy, positivity in learning transformation, self-regulated learning, and reflective skills.
Keywords: digital learning, transformation, self-regulated learning, reflective learning
