Students' (un)Readiness in Facing Virtual Learning Technological Challenges

E-Iearning classroom is getting more scope since the technological environment faced by universities nowadays. It provides a flexible and convenient time and place to study for the students. However, compared to other teaching approaches, the students' readiness plays an important role in achieving an effective e-learning process. Apart from that factor, students' motivation and self-learning abilities are also the main factors for successfully implementing e-learning classroom. This paper aims to present an in-depth investigation about students' challenges and opportunities regarding the implementation of e-learning classroom. This study involved a private university in Indonesia that offers all courses implementing e-learning. During the courses, the students were required to participate actively in e-learning classroom. The activities included online discussion forum, watch the video, and join the video conference session. The data were collected by using a questionnaire and were analyzed quantitatively. The data analysis result revealed some issues related to students' point of view about e-learning classroom, the drawbacks that e-learning made, and thus aims to raise awareness of e-learning platform among teachers and educational institutions.