Learning Microeconomics during the Pandemic: Does Digital Platform Management Matter?

This study aimed to analyze how student engagement affected their satisfaction, and to describe the comparison of student engagement and student satisfaction between Microeconomics online classes based on digital platform management. Two compared classes were distinguished in terms of digital platform variance. Using a quantitative approach, this study included 88 students from both classes who answered the online Likert Scale questionnaire after finishing their online Microeconomics classes during the Covid-19 pandemic. The results showed that student satisfaction and student engagement were higher if the class combined different digital platforms. However, some components of student engagement namely peer-to-peer support, student-lecturer communication, and self-learning management were not intervened by digital platform management. Meanwhile, student engagement had a strong effect to student satisfaction during online learning. The findings implicated that digital platform management was important to increase student satisfaction and student engagement in online learning but it had not changed student willingness to communicate or their learning attitude. Therefore, the related factors affecting them need to be explored more to optimize online learning benefits.