The COVID-19 situation has created various impacts on people’s lives around the world, including in Indonesia. Most areas in Indonesia have utilised online learning programs, and this new approach requires new adjustment for many people. For those who normally conduct teaching with an open university system, they may not have met with serious issues. But for others, serious issues may include a) delivering the program, b) evaluating the program, c) conducting the program. Delivering an online program may be easier with a working from home system for lectures that are theoretically based, but things become extremely difficult with practical issues such as hands-on training in Art Therapy. Moreover, problems in networking sometimes inhibit or at least interrupt the process. In evaluating the process, we are dealing with the condition where we cannot observe the participants; their networking may be active but their presence is questionable, and students can easily become distracted by other issues at home during the learning process. Conducting the program is challenging; many students remain at home with other members in the family and their presence often interrupts the learning process, thus distracting the students’ concentration. Besides, there are a number of activities that require a group process, and students have difficulties in participating – some even finding this impossible. We try our best to resolve the problems including for those who live in remote areas, and we provide reasonable and adjustable assignments for students to accomplish.
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