Abstract:
Since the pandemic Covid-19 have strike the world including Indonesia, most of life activities were shifting into online mode. The Indonesian Ministry of Education released an instruction to work from home. Consequently, all levels of educational institutions from Kindergarten to Higher Education from all over Indonesia must accomplish the instruction. To maintain this, online learning is the best solution to carry out the education during Covid 19. Thus, this study was conducted. This descriptive qualitative research was employed to interview and find out teachers' experience in teaching online. The context of this study is based on Manokwari context, West Papua Province. This study revealed that conducting online teaching during Covid 19 is still facing difficulties in Manokwari, so that majority of the schools choose to run offline classes by setting up schedule due to crowd limitation. The online teaching so far gave teachers both benefit and disadvantage in online base teaching. Teachers get new experience in teaching online and dealing with tools, application, and internet. However, they also have limitation in checking up students’ understanding, difficulties in controlling the class during the teaching learning time, students’ problems, the unstable internet access, etc. By looking at the Manokwari context from students’ side, parents’ side, and the supporting situation in this city, the majority teachers were chosen not to continue the offline teaching.
