Students’ Perceptions on the Integration of Google Workspace for Education: A Case Study of the Creative Drama and Theatre Course in the English Education Department at Halu Oleo University

Abstrak

This study investigates student perceptions of using Google Workspace for Education for the Creative Drama and Theatre Course in the English Language Education Department at Halu Oleo University. During the odd semester of 2023, this Creative Drama and Theatre Course utilized Google Workspace for Education, including Jamboard, Google Meet, Spreadsheet, Google Classroom, Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Drive and Youtube. The study reports a positive perception with a mean value of 4.02 and a standard deviation 0.86, indicating a high level of approval for Google Workspace in the learning process. The study identifies Google Meet as the most used and favoured feature with the percentage 46.39% of respondents agreeing, promoting virtual meetings and collaborative work in the classroom followed by Google Drive, Google Jamboard, Google Spreadsheet, Google forms and Google Docs. Despite YouTube not being part of Google Workspace, its integration garnered significant attention from the respondents. This study is qualitative research that aims to examine students’ perceptions. There are two main data to obtain the conclusion on this study, they are the qualitative data which is the interview, meanwhile, the questionnaire that incorporates the 5-point Likert scale is analysed with the Descriptive Statistical. Respondents highlighted the perceived of usefulness, actual use of Google workspace for education, perceived ease of use, positive attitude, and increased computer self-efficacy resulting from Google Workspace for Education usage. However, there is a need to study the students’ perception of Google Workspace for Education in the classrooms to investigate how the learners perceived the Google Workspace for Education applications learning, and how they see it as a learning tool in normal learning circumstances

Kata kunci

• Google Workspace for Education
• Students’ Perception
• online learning environments