STUDENTS PERCEPTION OF GOOGLE CLASSROOM USAGE: A CASE STUDY IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOCUSED COURSE

Abstract

The presence of Google Classroom and many other free platforms of digital sources have created a vast impact on the education filed, especially in crafting the teaching and learning interaction forms. They are assumed to be effective for both students as well as the academic staffs due to several reasons as accessibility, students’ scheduling flexibility, and adaptability for working and many others (Englishtina, 2019). In a pandemic situation, like what the world is facing at the present, they serve as an indispensable means supporting on-line learning which has been taking over face to face classroom interaction in the education system. Considering the importance of studies on such web-platform for learning as well as the scarcity of studies on Google Classroom and its implementation in a specific course, this research is therefore directed to investigate how English education students acting as the platform users, perceive the implementation of Google Classroom in the Media and ICT class they enroll in. It particularly seeks the users’ perception on ease of access, perceived usefulness, communication and interaction, perceived instruction delivery and user’s satisfaction. The data collected are examined through an online questionnaire survey, its questions or statements are adapted from Shaharanee et.al (2016) and an online interview. The findings indicate that the research participants have positive perception towards Google classroom in the afore-mentioned four aspects. The results of the interview reveal an additional information from the participants concerning their expectation of the Google Classroom broader features utilization as google calendar and google meet in their educational technology focused course. It is expected that the present study helps measuring the students’ perception on Google Classroom actual usage. Additionally, it may also bring about an evaluative value to the course under study on how Google Classroom can be geared to its maximum use and awareness on the effectiveness of using Google Classroom in the teaching and learning processes.