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Teaching in the time of COVID-19: the challenges faced by teachers in initiating online class sessions

The severity of COVID-19 has called the education world to transition into cyberspace education to support the continuity of teaching and learning. The stages of Movement Control Order (MCO), Conditional MCO, and Restricted MCO have resulted in prolonged closure of schools within affected areas. In...

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Main Authors: Izhar, Nurul Ashikin, Al-dheleai, Yahya M., Kew, Si Na
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Language:English
Published: HRMARS 2021
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/96677/1/KewSiNa2021_TeachingintheTimeofCovid-19theChallenges.pdf
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http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v11-i2/9205
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spelling my.utm.966772022-08-15T08:46:11Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/96677/ Teaching in the time of COVID-19: the challenges faced by teachers in initiating online class sessions Izhar, Nurul Ashikin Al-dheleai, Yahya M. Kew, Si Na L Education (General) The severity of COVID-19 has called the education world to transition into cyberspace education to support the continuity of teaching and learning. The stages of Movement Control Order (MCO), Conditional MCO, and Restricted MCO have resulted in prolonged closure of schools within affected areas. In the Guidelines of Teaching and Learning (T&L) during MCO,’ the Ministry of Education, Malaysia (MoE) has come up with several initiatives for the continuation of education, which include adopting the synchronous and asynchronous modes of online T&L. Nevertheless, they will not be successful if there are any barriers in the process of implementation. As teachers are the key players in preparing online classes, this research looks into the challenges that arose before they conducted the sessions. One hundred ninety-two public secondary school teachers responded to this research through open-ended questions. Teachers were asked what the challenges are that they face in preparing, planning, and designing the online lessons. Eight themes emerged in this research; namely, time, environment, technological access, interest, knowledge, technological skills, course design, and communication self-efficacy. This study proposes problems that can be further researched for better online T&L processes. HRMARS 2021 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/96677/1/KewSiNa2021_TeachingintheTimeofCovid-19theChallenges.pdf Izhar, Nurul Ashikin and Al-dheleai, Yahya M. and Kew, Si Na (2021) Teaching in the time of COVID-19: the challenges faced by teachers in initiating online class sessions. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11 (2). pp. 1294-1306. ISSN 2222-6990 http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v11-i2/9205
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Izhar, Nurul Ashikin
Al-dheleai, Yahya M.
Kew, Si Na
Teaching in the time of COVID-19: the challenges faced by teachers in initiating online class sessions
description The severity of COVID-19 has called the education world to transition into cyberspace education to support the continuity of teaching and learning. The stages of Movement Control Order (MCO), Conditional MCO, and Restricted MCO have resulted in prolonged closure of schools within affected areas. In the Guidelines of Teaching and Learning (T&L) during MCO,’ the Ministry of Education, Malaysia (MoE) has come up with several initiatives for the continuation of education, which include adopting the synchronous and asynchronous modes of online T&L. Nevertheless, they will not be successful if there are any barriers in the process of implementation. As teachers are the key players in preparing online classes, this research looks into the challenges that arose before they conducted the sessions. One hundred ninety-two public secondary school teachers responded to this research through open-ended questions. Teachers were asked what the challenges are that they face in preparing, planning, and designing the online lessons. Eight themes emerged in this research; namely, time, environment, technological access, interest, knowledge, technological skills, course design, and communication self-efficacy. This study proposes problems that can be further researched for better online T&L processes.
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author Izhar, Nurul Ashikin
Al-dheleai, Yahya M.
Kew, Si Na
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Al-dheleai, Yahya M.
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title Teaching in the time of COVID-19: the challenges faced by teachers in initiating online class sessions
title_short Teaching in the time of COVID-19: the challenges faced by teachers in initiating online class sessions
title_full Teaching in the time of COVID-19: the challenges faced by teachers in initiating online class sessions
title_fullStr Teaching in the time of COVID-19: the challenges faced by teachers in initiating online class sessions
title_full_unstemmed Teaching in the time of COVID-19: the challenges faced by teachers in initiating online class sessions
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publisher HRMARS
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