Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Learning in high education had been shifted from classroom based learning to on line learning. university of syiah kuala (unsyiah) had been implemented on line learning sistem called e-learning but it has not been used optimally. the objective of this study is to determine the students' perceptions on e-learning sistem in medical faculty of syiah kuala as a learning method. this is a qualitative study using deep interview. data analysis was performed using descriptive content analysis model by miles and huberman. out of 34 interviews that emerged the themes including: most of the students had already known the meaning, the purposes, the benefits, the existences and the use of the unsyiah e-learning system, then the quality of the learning materials, the socialitation, the website design, the speed and the uptime server of unsyiah e-learning sistem was quite good, although it still needed improvement and the importance to increase the number of learning materials in each course and to increase additional features of e-learning (forums, quizzes, tryout, online exams, notification of new material) and to increase the use of e-learning by student and lecturer. from the evaluation various aspects can be concluded that the unsyiah e-learning sistem has already run as expected, but it needs more improvement to the better quality of unsyiah e-learning sistem in the future. keyword: e-learning, learning materials, perception, medical student.