Student's View to the Use of Collaborative Application for Project-based Learning

Abstract

Teaching and learning by online meetings in the pandemic era are challenging. Some students argued that online meeting learning is boring because they felt exhaustive when involved in such a learning approach. On the Other hand, some lectures opined that examination in online learning is not fulfilled their satisfaction compared to the conventional test, that is, in classroom assessment. However, there is research that project-based learning is promising to be used as the best alternative for assessing students' performance for some applied courses. Project-based learning encourages the student to be active in learning processes. For example, they could find material for the project references and promote collaborative works. However, to provide maximum monitoring of coordinated task completion, many applications could be used for these purposes. Hence, we surveyed to measure the student opinion on using collaborative applications for project coordination in project-based learning. Students were asked to try several collaborative applications such as Basecamp, Trello, and Asana for their project, and then they should respond to the questionnaires. The survey invited 80 students from two classes with different subjects, i.e., a network application development course and research methodology. The result gave evidence that such application is sufficient to support the student for completion of project-based learning.