Vocational Student Interest in Applying Project-Based Learning (PjBL) Approach through Google Classroom in New Normal Era

This article aims to determine whether students in cosmetology program vocational higher education are interested in using Google Classroom (GCR) to apply the Project-Based Learning (PjBL) approach in their cosmetology courses. The study focused on students in cosmetology vocational higher education who participate in online learning in the new normal era. Lecturers as facilitators need to know students are interested in using GCR to learn makeup technic in the cosmetology program as a project they made. The method used in this study is a quantitative descriptive method. The sample consisted of 30 students to fill out a questionnaire online. The result that students are interested in learning cosmetology using the Project-Based Learning approach using Google Classroom. Based on the study's findings, the status of student interest determines students' learning motivation. The percentage of learning interest in learning can be seen from five indicators, one of which is included in the criteria of moderate interest (64%). In comparison, the other four indicators of interest are feelings of pleasure (76%), attention (72%), desire (70%), and awareness (70%). It can be said that students are interested in implementing the PjBL approach through the GCR platform in the Cosmetology program at vocational higher education.