Themes Sub themes Significant Statements
Definition of online learning
Prior knowledge
“Online learning is a form of distance education.” –P3, P7 “Online learning is where a classroom is present and learning takes place but the only difference is that it is done virtually with the aid of technology.” – P14
Operational definition
“Online Learning for me is learning through the internet or online.”- P1, P2, P4, P8 “Online learning is using technology or gadget or mobile devices.” – P5, P11, P13 “Learning is acquired virtually.”-P6, P9, P15 “Use of different platforms such as Zoom app, WhatsApp, etc.”-P10, P12
Interest and confidence in the course Interest in Indonesian culture “Yes, I did value other culture and make myself explore new learning of languages.”-P2, P10, P12
Interest in Bahasa Indonesia “I learned that Indonesian language is as colorful as ours. They have variety of languages and things can be said in more ways than one.”- P6
Changed perspective
“I was actually hesitant at first if I will enrol in this class or not because I’ve never been into an online class before and I was a little nervous because I don’t really know the people in that class especially that they’re from other countries. But then when I finally enrolled and attended some of our class sessions, it was kind a fun and interesting learning other people’s culture.” – P1 “After enrolling in FBICC, I realized that it is not bad to enrol to some international programs at all. You get to know what other countries look like, their language and culture.”-P7
Positive experiences
Positive experience with Instructors and classmates
“Every session in FBICC is a positive experience for me because we get the chance to learn new things and interact with different people from different countries. Plus the fact that our instructors there are very understanding and thoughtful.”-P1 “It is good, because our Instructors are very polite and approachable. They always make sure that we will interact with the class always.”-P3, P9, P13
Gratifying feeling of learning a new language
“Yes. I enjoyed every session because there is an interactive learning. I am also very overwhelmed for the new vocabularies that I have learned. For me this is not merely a compliance but it was a short journey filled with new experiences and learning.”-P4 “For me it was really the Indonesian language, with the kind of society we have which is very diverse and global, it is truly helpful if we know language other than ours and English. And being able to express yourself in a different language is a whole new and satisfying feeling to have.”-P6
Virtual tour in Indonesia
“The virtual tour allows me to acquire information about Indonesia.”-P5 “Yes. Enrolling in FBICC worth my time and effort for the reason that it helps me to understand new culture and environment even in the virtual setting. With the help of FBICC, I was able to explore Indonesia virtually, and visit their different tourist spots without spending money.” – P15
Negative experiences
Negative experience with the online platform
“The only negative thing I experienced while taking the program is the slow internet connection which I think, most of us experience most of the time, hampering us from the best learning possibilities we could cultivate from this program.”-P14 “Yes. First, unstable internet connection. Second, noise interferences of the environment, and the likes.”-P15
Lack of technical support
“I think the university will provide some router to students to make the internet more stable and laptops also so that we can be confident in participating in the session.”-P12 “I guess, there’s little to no technical support provided by the university in relation to the FBICC program.”-P14 “I received moral support and guidance from my subject teacher through messenger.”-P4
Attitude towards the online platform
Preference towards traditional in-class modality
“FBICC is a little hard sometimes because we cannot tell what troubles we may encounter in learning online like trouble in internet connection or the noise in our surroundings. Unlike the in-class instruction where we can look for another ways to avoid this kind of problems.”-P1 “I would prefer traditional in-class since I could learn much better in my perspective.”- P2
Ease of access, user friendly zoom app “The zoom is friendly, audio are clear, videos are interesting, over-all educational environment is very good.”-P2
learning barriers Using Bahasa Indonesia in communicating “It’s great so far communicating between my instructor but for some reasons during break-out sessions I find it a bit hard sometimes to communicate with other students because of language barriers, there are some who are able to speak full well in English while there are some who only knows the basic but nevertheless, I didn’t let these barriers have our way from getting the best learning possibilities we could have from the exchange of conversation.”-P14
Internet connectivity problem “For me, I don’t really encounter trouble of connectivity but it still concerns me because it is kind of distracting the class. I had connection trouble once and I was so annoyed because when I returned to our class, I missed some of the parts of the discussion and I can’t do anything about it.” – P1
Pandemic issues
“It is worthy of my time because I can say that I am still learning despite the pandemic.”-P11 “FBICC is one of the unforgettable college experience so far even though we are in pandemic, opportunities never stops.”-P12