Virtual Laboratory in Chemistry: Recent Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Chemistry Practical Course

The covid-19 has impacted many sectors to change the way the run their activity, including the learning and teaching activity at a higher education. Many departments at the educational institution have been affected seriously due to the physical laboratory closing, especially for the activity at chemistry laboratory. The physical laboratory has been transformed to the virtual laboratory in order to accommodate the student to study the experimental course. By using the internet and communication technology (ICT) innovation in teaching and learning method, the student can still have the experiment and continue the lecture through online system. This effort may help the student to still play an active role while participating in the learning process

The Effectiveness of Virtual Learning Process on Environmental Chemistry Laboratory Course

The impact of advanced technology is perceived in every sector, including education. As the Ministry of Education and Culture program, distance learning has become applied in Indonesia, especially with this pandemic COVID-19. The learning model used in the course will affect student understanding in this situation, especially for an experimental study that aims to enhance student skills in the laboratory. The virtual laboratory practice is an additional learning model used in Environmental Chemistry Laboratory Course. Before, the Environmental Laboratory Course used only video to deliver learning materials. This research is experimental research that aims to evaluate the additional virtual laboratory practice's impact on student grades compared to the previous method. The research result was obtained by comparing the practical course's assessment results in 2019/2020 to 2020/2021. A questionnaire was also used to collect student opinions about the new learning method. The number of samples in this research was 395 students. The results show that the average students' grades using explanatory video only is 89, then with additional virtual laboratory practice are 88. From the questionnaire, 46% of the respondent said the application increased their understanding of the learning materials, and they also enjoyed using the application. It could be concluded that the virtual laboratory practice did not improve the assessment result of the course but enhanced the student interest. Keywords: Distance learning, Laboratory course, virtual laboratory practic

The Implementation of Pyrolisis of Waste Material to Bio-Oil in the KKN Course

Kuliah Kerja Nyata (KKN) is one kind of university contribution to community. Through KKN, student also learn how to apply their knowledge and contribute it to community need. In Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) there are two kind of KKN which are Reguler and Pembelajaran Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (PPM), which differentiate from the topic used. KKN PPM already has major topic that obtained from village destination need. The problem from KKN PPM is limitation time for student to learn about major topic before socialize to community like in KKN UII 57 unit 310-315 which has pyrolisis method as their major topic. Not all the sudent that include in unit 310-315, which come from different study, understand about pyrolisis. To settle this problem, experimental method was choose as learning method used, which help student understand about pyrolisis in limitation time. The effectiveness of this method was observed by observation, interview and questioner. The result show that expertimental method give good result. The student understand basic concept of pyrolisis process that needed in limitation time, eventhough they did not understand anything about pyrolisis method before