Overview of Sense of Connectedness in Distance Learning for First-Year Students
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220404.243How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- sense of connectedness; distance learning; first-year students
- Abstract
Distance learning is increasingly in demand by students in higher education. However, distance learning presents various problems for students, such as limited interaction, physical separation, and feeling disconnected from people in their learning environment. These problems lead to a higher dropout rate in distance learning. To overcome these problems, students’ sense of connectedness is important to improve in distance learning. This study aims to describe the sense of connectedness in distance learning for first-year students. The type of this research is descriptive quantitative. This study uses nonprobability-criterion sampling techniques to collect data. The measuring instrument used in this study is the Online Student Connectedness Survey (OSCS). Data were collected in early November 2020. Participants involved in this study are 284 first-year students in Jakarta and outside Jakarta. The results have shown that the first-year students’ sense of connectedness was in the moderate category level (69.7%). Generally, first-year students show moderate scores on the comfort, community, facilitation, and interaction and collaboration dimensions. However, community dimension show the lowest scores compared to other dimensions (M = 2.903). This study also found that the community scores for men were higher than for women. It means that men are more able to engage and build relationships with peers in distance learning.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Ghea Elisabeth Taniko AU - Rahmah Hastuti PY - 2022 DA - 2022/04/21 TI - Overview of Sense of Connectedness in Distance Learning for First-Year Students BT - Proceedings of the 3rd Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1512 EP - 1517 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220404.243 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220404.243 ID - Taniko2022 ER -