Intercultural Communication

The Effectiveness of Online Learning in the Environment

of University

        The learning process is currently carried out online, discussing how far the quality or effectiveness of online learning is, the Chancellor of the Christian University of Indonesia immediately provides directions via live Instagram. Many things were discussed in the conversation that lasted for 1 hour starting from the obstacles and solutions that could be done by the campus and some arguments and questions from the audience. One of the most important things that the Chancellor Daniswara said was that we are indeed difficult in a situation like this, but that does not become a reason for us to keep going. Creative ways are needed to survive in the midst of this pandemic.

        From the discussion discussed, I conclude with various arguments, We have been in the Covid-19 pandemic for one year and now we are in the New Normal life. Many people are give up and many people are also manifesting their passion even in this situation expecially in digital era is that almost every single life today cannot be separated from the internet. So creative ways are needed to survive our passions in the midst of this pandemic.

    Sometimes easy means difficult, have you ever been assigned a easy task which for you is actually very difficult to perform and maybe for anybody else. I have experienced that when I started taking singing lessons, and my coach told me to breathe with my diaphragm. That’s easy, its our natural breath but actually very difficult to do. And its similar to what happens when a teacher or lecturer comes into online virtual class and tells you to think out of the box or to think creative. They said, Come on give me your creative ideas and I need innovation. Easy, simple but actually very hard to do. we need to practice, we need to know how to be creative, we need to know how to get out box. First thing first is that, why we need to go out of the box (Creative). Because inside of the box we feel safe and when we go out we risk our reputation, we worked so hard, we need to go out from our comfort zone and that’s the beganing of creativity.

    But many people think, I can never have an idea worth spreading, Im not creative or artsy or genius, well the good news is anyone can have creative idea and the interesting thing is that many great ideas come when people do surprisingly simple things

    So I will explain at three simple ways to have creative ideas to manifest our passison:

1.         Problems. Because ideas or solutions to everyday problems. If you know a famous singer is that Sam Smith. He had a problem, he was really heartbroken after his lover left and then he thought well to get over it and he write about a song, and the ideas for song called stay with me was born. The song won four Grammy Awards and song of the year. It’s similar in this pandemic, when Covid-19 existed so the teachers becomes creative, namely by designing online classes where the teachers have never thought about it, so now the Blended Learning was born and one of them is independent learning and independet campus and a few people are now famous and make money through online such as Tik Tok, YouTube, Instagram and so on. So the problems can makes us creative, if you want to be creative, find the problems to manifest your passion.

2.         Look around. Richard Fenyman was a physicist who wins the Nobel Prize. When he was eating lunch in the Cornell University cafetaria and a student stood up and threw a plate across the room and Richard notices a plate spun and through the air the cornel medallion on the plate seemed to be spinning faster than the plate, well he went away got an ideas. Its similar when we look around of our environment right now, when we can't manifest our passion with offline then we can do it online. Including when I give a speech today, that means I am manafesting my passion through online with video ways.  Warren Buffett said: I always believe my eyes rather than anything else. So look around you even in difficult situation

3.         Write down your creativity. Lary Page said: When I was 23 I suddenly woke up thinking what if we could download the whole Web, and just keep the links. He grabbed a pen and started scribbling out the details and Google was born. Its similar in this pandemic, I am believe you have a lot of ideas during in this pandemic, maybe it doesn't make sense but keep writing and don't be afraid and make it come true. When realy great dream shows up, Grab It!

        Leadis and gentlemen

        Creative ways in this pandemic are needed. It’s not easy, we need to risk our reputation, worked so hard and to adapt in any situation. Faced the problem, look around you, write down, and make it come true. Think creatively, do the creativity, and be creative. Thank you.