THE ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN ONLINE LEARNING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC OF UPT SDN 1 MARGAKAYA indonesia

Abstract

Abstract
Covid-19 Pandemic was greaty impact on education in Indonesia. The learning process which was
performed at the school but now learning do from home with online learning. Using of
information technology is very helpful on learning process in the Covid-19 virus. Online based
learning used in this study is learning that utilizes the use of Whatsapp in information
communication tools. However, there are some obstacles in he process of implementing learning
at UPT SDN 1 Margakaya such as not all students can take part in the online learning process
because of the weak internet network and not all guardians of students have handphone and
enthusiastic in participating in the online based learning process. This research was conducted to
determine the role of information technology in online learning during Covid-19 Pandemic of
UPT SDN 1 Margakaya. This research method uses qualitative methods with a descriptive
approach. The result of this research is that the whatsapp application based learning has an
important role in the implementation of learning, the other than that there are factors that greatly
influence the learning process when carried out online during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Keywords : Covid-19 Pandemic, Online learning, Information Technology