Learning to Cook Using Augment Reality (AR): The Culinary Students Perspectives Farah Levyta(a,b*), Trias Septyoari Putranto(a), Dianka Wahyuningtias(a), Maria Pia Adiati(a), Myrza Rahmanita(b)
a) Hotel Management, Binus University, Jl. KH Syahdan No.9 Jakarta Indonesia
*farah.levyta[at]binus.edu
b)Doctoral Program STP Trisakti, Jl. IKPN Bintaro No 1 Jakarta Indonesia
Abstract
Global education systems were severely disrupted by COVID-19 epidemic, with schools and universities being forced to close. As a result, a number of students impacted significantly increasing around the world. Many in-class face-to-face lectures had to be replaced with online learning. Also, this issue has a significant impact on the teaching-learning process for a huge number of hospitality related courses, which require practice activities in kitchen laboratory that allow students to demonstrate what they have learned in the class. To address the requirement for kitchen laboratory practice session during COVID-19 pandemic, an engaging and sustainable virtual platform is required to transform the teaching-learning problem into an innovative opportunity for hospitality education. The purpose of this study is to investigate the students^ perception about the adoption of Augmented Reality (AR) as a tool to enhance and stimulate the online learning experience for cooking practice session. Using quantitative approach and purposive sample data collection, questionnaire was distributed to 150 hospitality students. The data was analyzed using multiple regression from IBM SPSS. Technology Acceptance Model was used to answer the research objectives. The study found that the adoption of Augmented Reality had help students to understand better the subject. Moreover, some students perceived that the adoption of Augmented Reality (AR) is still require some more improvement, especially from the aspect of ease of used. The findings of this study indicated that Augmented Reality can be used for distant learning in hospitality education, either as an addition or as an alternative method of teaching
Keywords: Augmented Reality, Technology in education, online learning, hospitality students
