| dc.description.abstract | At the end of 2019, the world's attention was focused on a city in China called Wuhan, with the emergence of a virus called Corona Virus Disease or often called Covid. The spread of the Covid-19 virus is through splashes, droplets, or in medical terms known as droplets when someone coughs, sneezes or talks. So it is very necessary to maintain a distance (physical distancing), at least two meters from other people, this is in order to minimize being hit by droplet splashes. With the existence of a distance learning policy, it has indirectly changed the paradigm of the conventional learning system, which was originally face to face in class and then turned into virtual ones and did not meet in person in class. Online learning is a solution option in supporting distance learning policies.
This study focuses on online learning that uses the zoom cloud meeting application which is more dominant in use by high-grade students / students in online learning and face-to-face even from a distance. The purpose of this study were to determine the efficiency of the zoom cloud meeting application in online learning as an alternative solution in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The subjects of this study were thirty of English students of the fourth, sixth, and eighth semester at University of Islam Malang. The research was qualitative research. The data collection technique was carried out by giving questionnaires through Google Form and interviews using Whatsapp to thirty students at the Islamic University of Malang. The data were analyzed and interpretd through qualitative procedure. The findings indicate that the students have positive perceptions about the efficiency of the use of Zoom Cloud Meeting Application as an alternative solution in online learning in the pandemic Covid-19.
The results of this study indicate that the use of the Zoom Cloud Meeting application is efficient for students at the Islamic University of Malang because in addition to the video and image quality that looks more stable than other video conference applications, the Zoom Cloud Meeting application makes it easy for teachers and learners to be able to do face-to-face learning. although learning is done online and all users are in different places. Although signals are often the main obstacle in using the Zoom Cloud Meeting application, the many advantages of Zoom Cloud Meeting application are believed to be still the best alternative for the online learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Suggestions are put forward, submitted to learners, teachers, and further researchers who will conduct research similar to this research. This suggestion is related to the importance of selecting and using learning media, in this case the Zoom Cloud Meeting. The wise use of learning media can improve the user's ability in technology and can develop these learning media. | en_US |
