Use of Blended Learning with Moodle: Study Effectiveness in Elementary School Teacher Education Students during The COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Currently, various countries in the world, are shocked by an outbreak of a disease caused by a virus
called corona or better known as COVID-19 (Corona Virus Diseases-19). As a result of the COVID-
19 pandemic, leading to the implementation of various policies to break the chain of the spread of the
COVID-19 virus in Indonesia. One of the efforts made by the government in Indonesia is to
implement an appeal to the public to carry out physical distancing, one of which is in the field of
Education where the learning process is done online at home. This study aims to find out how
effectively the use of the blended-learning learning model with moodle applications in Elementary
School Teacher Education students during the COVID-19 pandemic. This type of research is a quasiexperimental design with a pretest-posttest control group. The results of this study indicate that the
use of the moodle blended-learning learning model in Elementary School Teacher Education students
during the COVID-19 pandemic period is effective and can be used as a network-based learning
solution or online.