Affective Domain (Taxonomy Krathwohl) and
Interpersonal Communication of Students in e-
Learning Activities
Heni Cahya Ramdani
1
, Rizal Fahmi
2
, Aisha Nadya
3
, Iin Indahsari
4
{hcramdani@unis.ac.id
1
, rfahmi@unis.ac.id
2
, aishanadya@unis.ac.id
3
,
180501004@students.unis.ac.id
4
}
Universitas Islam Syekh-Yusuf, Tangerang
1,2,3,4
Abstract. Emerging of Covid-19 pandemic generated the education system
shifting its activities. The e-learning offers new dimension that opens-up further
opportunities. E-learning allows access to convenient learning activities
anywhere and anytime. However, the e-learning implementation emerges
various challenges which has been possibly mistreating certain aspects related to
the affective and interpersonal communication. To achieve educational goals,
competence and proficiency in mastering the know-how gained from the
teaching-learning activities is essential. Digital education has become essential
for a successful study therefore examining on how its influences to the affective
domain and interpersonal communication of student using learning management
system (LMS) is required. In facilitating these statement, a quantitative study on
higher education students has been applied and resulted that online learning
using LMS influenced students’ affective domain and interpesonal
communication.
Keywords: Affective Domain; Interpersonal Communication; e-Learning
1 Introduction
The Covid-19 outbreak emerged in December 2019. (1) It has rapidly spread and
continued to grow until it declared as pandemic. (2) Tools to prevent are isolation and
quarantine. Quarantine is restriction of persons who are presumed to have been exposed to a
contagious disease but are not ill, either because they did not become infected or because they
are still in the incubation period, social distancing and community containment. (3)
Unprecedented policies were put in place in slowing the spread of the virus lethargicly, i.e.
preventing social contact by closing schools, shops, restaurants, banning public events, and
working from home. (4) Social distancing has been applied in various countries to reduce
human interaction in the wider community (3). The pandemic has brought many challenges.
In response to the outbreak, schools have now to shift its teaching-learning activities to digital
(6) as well as higher education not only in terms of teaching-learning and also other activities
such as research and institutional governance (5). Online learning became of great demand in
the world of education in the last few years. Internet-based learning or what is often referred to
ICSST 2021, November 25, Tangerang, Indonesia
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DOI 10.4108/eai.25-11-2021.2318828