Implementation of Thesis Supervision Through Online System For Undergraduate Students of Early Childhood Education Study Program Amid Covid-19 Outbreak

The present study was conducted to describe the implementation of undergraduate thesis supervision through online for undergraduate students of Early Childhood Education Study Program at STKIP Panca Sakti Bekasi amid the Covid-19 outbreak. The research included students’ understanding of thesis supervision through online systems, difficulties in using online media systems, selection of interactive online media, forms of communication difficulties, advantages and disadvantages in using online systems and student expectations of supervisors in conducting online supervision models in the future amid the Covid-19 outbreak. The approach used in this research was qualitative with a descriptive research type. The method used was a Survey Method using a questionnaire technique. Respondents in this study were 70 students who were obtained from the calculation of the random sampling distributed through Google forms to students of STKIP Panca Sakti Bekasi Academic year of 2019-2020. The results of this study confirmed that the implementation of the undergraduate thesis through the online system amid the Covid-19 outbreak was not deemed optimally successful. Keywords: Early childhood; thesis supervision; covid-1