CAPTIVATING ADULT LEANERS WITH BLENDED ONLINE CREATIVE WRITING COURSES

Riwayatiningsih, Rika and NURHAJATI, DIANI (2020) CAPTIVATING ADULT LEANERS WITH BLENDED ONLINE CREATIVE WRITING COURSES. Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on English Language Education (ICONELE) 2020, - (-). pp. 39-48. ISSN -

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Abstract

During the outbreak COVID-19, the learning environment has shifted from the traditional classroom meeting into distance online learning. This condition imposed the instructor to stumble on the using technology to support the teaching and learning process. This study proposes on the use of blended modes on synchronous and asynchronous online platform to engage students in creative writing course. The main research question of this study was how the blended modes relying synchronous and asynchronous platform can optimize the students’ engagement in their online learning environment. 50 university students participated in the online discussion activities and in the learning content platform. The researcher tallied the experiences during designing and teaching the course using the instructional technology and connect the results with the students perception about their insights on blended synchronous and asynchronous modes. The results showed that the teacher- students and students- students’ engagement environment appeared during the discussion and chatroom session with the synchronous platform. Together with the asynchronous modes, the students present positive responses with the technology used in enriching their writing skills. It can be concluded that the use of blended online learning is truly effective in maintaining the engagement environment throughout the distance online learning. Some suggestions to cover the problems over the online learning are also provided.

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