Implementation of e-learning by vocational-school teachers of mechanical engineering

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government of the Republic of Indonesia ruled that all instructional activities be conducted online. Online instructional programs have been done by the teachers of vocational schools using e-learning. All learning activities that were formerly conducted on-site become online, including practicum classes.The present study is aimed at (1) evaluating teachers' readiness for online learning, (2) identifying handicaps encountered by teachers, (3) identifying e-learning platforms that are used, and (4) analyzing the instructional methods. A total of 118 mechanical engineering teachers at vocational schools from all over Indonesia who attended a webinar on developing learning resources in online learning participated as respondents of the study. The research instrument was a questionnaire dispersed online using the Google Form format, and descriptive statistics analyzed data. Findings show that: (1) a large number (55.6%) of the teachers state that they are not quite ready to implement e-learning, and the readiness of productive teachers is lower than that of adaptive teachers; (2) the primary handicaps encountered by teachers in the e-learning lie in the aspects of learning resources and implementation of the instructional processes; (3) in the running of the e-learning, a total of 87.29% teachers use the WhatsApp platform, 73.73% use Zoom, and GMeet video conference applications, and 36.44% use LMS; and (4) a total of 88.98% teachers have applied the student-centered learning mode combined with teacher-centered learning.