Teachers' Beliefs of Coronavirus on Online Learning

The learning and simplification in the 21st century particularly due to covid-19 is a real challenge for each individual teacher. Virtual classroom, multimedia, mobile learning, electronic learning, and cloud technologies as the components of digital learning play a vital role in this century but a sudden shift to totally online learning, instead of real classroom, has triggered teachers to change in their learning and simplification. Hence, this study is carried out to explore teachers’ beliefs of how corona virus impact on online learning. This study applied the qualitative study with 58 informants using the purposive sampling method. Motivation, engagement, social relationships, entertainment, creativity, and virtual experiments are the themes identified from this study. The impact of the coronavirus on online learning has been profound, affecting various aspects of education

Blended learning for generation alpha during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the integration of online learning in the secondary education context in an unprecedented manner. Teachers who were accustomed to conducting lessons fully in the classroom had to search for various technology-based alternatives to replace the conventional form of teaching and learning. The purpose of this study was to explore the blending of online and physical learning, also known as “blended learning”, across government secondary schools throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a qualitative study that involved 58 secondary school teachers from 3 districts in Sabah, Malaysia. Focus group interviews were employed to gather data about the use of blended learning among teachers in the districts of Tawau, Kota Kinabalu and Keningau. The data were analysed using thematic analysis. The findings showed that the participants used a variety of online learning applications to deliver content, to provide social and emotional support to the learners and learners’ parents, and to evaluate learner performance. The findings also revealed that in some cases, the teachers had to create physical learning materials for the students. This study revealed the various ways teachers blended online and face-to-face approaches to cater to their learners. The outcomes are valuable for pre-service and inservice teachers who are keen to employ blended learning in the 21st century classroom

Technical and implementational issues of using a video platform (Flip.Com) for online learning for teachers in Keningau, Sabah

The recent Covid-19 health pandemic (2020 – 2022) had caused great concern for educators across the globe. Schools were closed under the Moverment Control Act of each respective country to curb the spread of the virus. School lessons were replaced with online sessions. Purpose: The main purpose of this research is to explore and share teachers’ experience and perceptions for using an online video platform (flip.com) for teaching and learning. Teachers related these experiences via research workshops conducted at the 4 venues in Sabah. Methods: Data were elicited via the reflection notes approach and analyzed qualitatively to support the investigation. The researchers reported findings from selected a sample of 12 informants from the Kota Kinabalu Workshop, Sabah. Results: Eight out of twelve informants registered positive perceptions regarding the usage and suitability of flip.com for nonMathematic subjects while negative comments were for the unsuitability usage for Mathematic, requests for professional development training and some technical issues while implementing the software. Recommendation: The research recommended that in order for an innovation such as flip.com to be accepted teachnologically by fulfilling the perceived usefulness and perceived ease-to-use components of the TAM Model, teachers’ comments on the feature of usefulness, user-friendliness of the interfaces and technicality issues of the software must be considered closely by the software provider

Teachers' Beliefs of Coronavirus on Online Learning

The learning and simplification in the 21st century particularly due to covid-19 is a real challenge for each individual teacher. Virtual classroom, multimedia, mobile learning, electronic learning, and cloud technologies as the components of digital learning play a vital role in this century but a sudden shift to totally online learning, instead of real classroom, has triggered teachers to change in their learning and simplification. Hence, this study is carried out to explore teachers’ beliefs of how corona virus impact on online learning. This study applied the qualitative study with 58 informants using the purposive sampling method. Motivation, engagement, social relationships, entertainment, creativity, and virtual experiments are the themes identified from this study. The impact of the coronavirus on online learning has been profound, affecting various aspects of education