Optimizing the Role of Mothers in Online Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Raditya Pratama Putra (a*), Yulianti (a), Indri Rachmawati (a)

a) Faculty of Communication, Universitas Islam Bandung
Jalan Tamansari No. 24 Lantai 7, Bandung, Indonesia.
*radityapratamaputra15gmail.com

Abstract

The Covid-19 virus that has spread throughout the world has resulted in an unavoidable pandemic condition and has had a significant impact on various fields of health, economy, and education. In the field of education, the conditions for teaching and learning activities must change to an online system, which is also felt by the Indonesian people. Online learning activities require parents, especially mothers, to work hard to accompany and teach their children through the online system when at home. The mother^s role when learning online as it is today is not only as a parent but also as a teacher. With these changes in activity, there are many ways, understandings, and feelings for mothers as parents to direct and teach their children online in the conditions of the covid-19 pandemic. So this study aims to determine the mother^s understanding in dealing with online learning, to find out the ways that mothers do to direct and teach children online learning, and to find out how mothers feel in dealing with online learning during the covid-19 pandemic. This study uses a qualitative method with a case study approach. The results of this study show that the mother^s understanding for the most part has no difficulty in adjusting to the technology used because it is almost the same as digital media in general. child. The way mothers direct and teach their children with various strategies ranging from adapting to offline concepts to creating a comfortable learning atmosphere for children.

Keywords: Online Media, Education, Innovation, Strategy

Topic: Innovative Education in the Digitali Era