ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia has altered dramatically many aspects of life. In formal education, the Ministry of Education issued a policy instructing schooling sectors to implement online learning to prevent students from contracting COVID-19. Therefore, the aim of this study was to portray problems emerging in online learning at senior high schools in a borderland of Indonesia: the province of North Kalimantan. Data was collected in September 2020 through an online open questionnaire asking questions to 251 teachers at senior high schools throughout the regencies. Data was analyzed through descriptive quantitative and qualitative frameworks. The results revealed that the emerging problems of online learning included internet networks, internet data, learning devices, student attitudes, parent attitudes, learning evaluations, teaching methods, the literacy of information technology, and student comprehension. To conclude, the most noticeable problems are internet access, competency in online learning, and student attitudes.
