How Ready Were Malaysian Undergraduates for the Sudden Online Classes During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210312.070How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Covid-19, teaching and learning, online learning, students’ readiness, technology in learning

Abstract

On 18 March 2020, Malaysia was placed under a series of Movement Control Orders which resulted in delays in teaching and learning in the classrooms at all levels of education and most universities were instructed to conduct online classes by April 2020. This paper looks into the readiness of Malaysian undergraduates in switching from their usual mode of face to face learning to all online classes. Two hundred and eighty- nine respondents from six public universities participated in this study. Data were collected by sending out a survey questionnaire through google form and links in students’ Whatsapp groups. The survey was a compilation of several research instruments and was designed to obtain feedbacks on students’ experience of online learning during the MCO due to the Covid-19 pandemic between April to June 2020. The findings indicate that for the most part, the respondents were quite prepared and were ready in terms of knowledge of using technology in learning and skills required for learning online. In this regard, universities have in fact for sometimes been keeping abreast with emerging technology innovation of a modern society and hence successfully prepared the students well before the pandemic outbreak with blended learning strategy and the use of technology in classrooms. However, the findings also indicate that the respondents were less prepared in terms of facilities for an efficient online learning such as an up-to-date laptop, internet coverage plan and internet access.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Samsiah Abdul-Hamid
AU  - Rohani Hamzah
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/13
TI  - How Ready Were Malaysian Undergraduates for the Sudden Online Classes During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
BT  - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Science, Technology, Engineering and Industrial Revolution (ICSTEIR 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 423
EP  - 430
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210312.070
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210312.070
ID  - Abdul-Hamid2021
ER  -