Disruption in Economics Learning through WhatsApp Group during Covid-19 Pandemic
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201219.089How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Disruption, Economics Learning, WhatsApp Group
- Abstract
The word ‘Disruption’ becomes more popular along with Industrial Revolution 4.0. This word appears in various aspects of life: socioeconomic, financial, transportation, and even educational aspects. This change called Disruption is challenging to some countries. But for some others, it can also help facilitate the society in facing various phenomena, for example, the current issues covid-19 pandemic that happens all over the world. The aim of this study is to describe how economics learning can be done at a distance during the pandemic, using WhatsApp Group media, especially in Indonesia. Many teachers, students, lecturers, and college students use this media to keep the learning going during home-learning phenomenon during this pandemic time. The methods used in this study is literature review, by collecting various theory, books, journals and data related to the use of WhatsApp in teaching and learning. The results show that, WhatsApp Group helps the communication between students and teachers, especially when learning takes place from different location, but it still has a lot of weakness and cannot be used in long term. Learning in class still becomes the first choice in Indonesia even though the education systems start to disrupt digitally, departing from this home-learning phenomenon.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Raden Roro Suci Nurdianti PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/21 TI - Disruption in Economics Learning through WhatsApp Group during Covid-19 Pandemic BT - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (ICOSAPS 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 589 EP - 592 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201219.089 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201219.089 ID - Nurdianti2020 ER -