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The impact of building community and digital skills on students’ online active learning experience during COVID-19 pandemic

Covid-19 and the subsequent Movement Control Order (MCO) imposed by the government has deeply impacted the higher education institutions in Malaysia. The new normal has dramaticallytransformed to online learning. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) took the bold move to be among the first universiti...

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Main Authors: Kawthar Bayoumi, Kawthar Bayoumi, Ramli, Nasiibah, Mansoureh Ebrahimi, Mansoureh Ebrahimi, Rosman, Arieff Salleh, Aqeel Khan, Aqeel Khan
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Language:English
Published: ASR Research India 2022
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L Education (General)
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spelling my.utm.1041642024-01-17T01:42:58Z http://eprints.utm.my/104164/ The impact of building community and digital skills on students’ online active learning experience during COVID-19 pandemic Kawthar Bayoumi, Kawthar Bayoumi Ramli, Nasiibah Mansoureh Ebrahimi, Mansoureh Ebrahimi Rosman, Arieff Salleh Aqeel Khan, Aqeel Khan L Education (General) Covid-19 and the subsequent Movement Control Order (MCO) imposed by the government has deeply impacted the higher education institutions in Malaysia. The new normal has dramaticallytransformed to online learning. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) took the bold move to be among the first universities in Malaysia to start online learning to ensure that students can continue with their education and graduation as anticipated. Whilst academics have done a remarkable job in putting together materials and assessments in preparation for online delivery of courses, the university must ensure quality and fair assessment as well as how well they have fared in the face of a major catastrophe. Accordingly, evaluations should be carried regularly, especially from the perspectives of students. The purpose of this paper is to explore the online learning experience of international undergraduate students on philosophy course. The paper adopted educational action research method by developing and distributing a questionnaire using google forms to collect data from 88 students in two international sections during the academic year 2020/2021. The results showed that although the majority of students rate their overall online experience as “excellent”, however, 60% of them think that their learning outcome could have been better if the study was face to face. Regarding the teaching modes, the preferred selection of majority of students was hybrid, synchronous, and asynchronous modes respectively. Moreover, the findings indicated that that students are still coping with the new norms working from thehome, but they had dissatisfaction with certain elements such as missing the face-to-face interaction and the challenge to carry out collaborative group projects while dispersed in different places. The findings provide updated insights on online learning after being adopted as a new norm during the COVID-19 pandemic and applied in UTM ever since, as such, can be useful for the university management, educators’ best practices, and similar higher education institutions to enhance and develop new online teaching and learning plans. ASR Research India 2022 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/104164/1/KawtharBayoumiNasiibahRamliMansourehEbrahimi2022_TheImpactofBuildingCommunityandDigital.pdf Kawthar Bayoumi, Kawthar Bayoumi and Ramli, Nasiibah and Mansoureh Ebrahimi, Mansoureh Ebrahimi and Rosman, Arieff Salleh and Aqeel Khan, Aqeel Khan (2022) The impact of building community and digital skills on students’ online active learning experience during COVID-19 pandemic. Journal Of Positive School Psychology, 6 (3). pp. 2133-2149. ISSN 2717-7564 https://www.journalppw.com/index.php/jpsp/article/view/1929 NA
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topic L Education (General)
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Kawthar Bayoumi, Kawthar Bayoumi
Ramli, Nasiibah
Mansoureh Ebrahimi, Mansoureh Ebrahimi
Rosman, Arieff Salleh
Aqeel Khan, Aqeel Khan
The impact of building community and digital skills on students’ online active learning experience during COVID-19 pandemic
description Covid-19 and the subsequent Movement Control Order (MCO) imposed by the government has deeply impacted the higher education institutions in Malaysia. The new normal has dramaticallytransformed to online learning. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) took the bold move to be among the first universities in Malaysia to start online learning to ensure that students can continue with their education and graduation as anticipated. Whilst academics have done a remarkable job in putting together materials and assessments in preparation for online delivery of courses, the university must ensure quality and fair assessment as well as how well they have fared in the face of a major catastrophe. Accordingly, evaluations should be carried regularly, especially from the perspectives of students. The purpose of this paper is to explore the online learning experience of international undergraduate students on philosophy course. The paper adopted educational action research method by developing and distributing a questionnaire using google forms to collect data from 88 students in two international sections during the academic year 2020/2021. The results showed that although the majority of students rate their overall online experience as “excellent”, however, 60% of them think that their learning outcome could have been better if the study was face to face. Regarding the teaching modes, the preferred selection of majority of students was hybrid, synchronous, and asynchronous modes respectively. Moreover, the findings indicated that that students are still coping with the new norms working from thehome, but they had dissatisfaction with certain elements such as missing the face-to-face interaction and the challenge to carry out collaborative group projects while dispersed in different places. The findings provide updated insights on online learning after being adopted as a new norm during the COVID-19 pandemic and applied in UTM ever since, as such, can be useful for the university management, educators’ best practices, and similar higher education institutions to enhance and develop new online teaching and learning plans.
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author Kawthar Bayoumi, Kawthar Bayoumi
Ramli, Nasiibah
Mansoureh Ebrahimi, Mansoureh Ebrahimi
Rosman, Arieff Salleh
Aqeel Khan, Aqeel Khan
author_facet Kawthar Bayoumi, Kawthar Bayoumi
Ramli, Nasiibah
Mansoureh Ebrahimi, Mansoureh Ebrahimi
Rosman, Arieff Salleh
Aqeel Khan, Aqeel Khan
author_sort Kawthar Bayoumi, Kawthar Bayoumi
title The impact of building community and digital skills on students’ online active learning experience during COVID-19 pandemic
title_short The impact of building community and digital skills on students’ online active learning experience during COVID-19 pandemic
title_full The impact of building community and digital skills on students’ online active learning experience during COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr The impact of building community and digital skills on students’ online active learning experience during COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed The impact of building community and digital skills on students’ online active learning experience during COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort impact of building community and digital skills on students’ online active learning experience during covid-19 pandemic
publisher ASR Research India
publishDate 2022
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