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ArticleJournal of education and health promotion2021

Virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: What are the barriers and how to overcome them?

Sujata Yadneshwar Khobragade, Htoo Htoo Kyaw Soe, Yadneshwar Sudam Khobragade, Adinegara Lutfi Bin Abas

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Article in Journal of education and health promotion, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sujata Yadneshwar KhobragadeDepartment of Community Medicine, Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Melaka, Malaysia.
Htoo Htoo Kyaw SoeDepartment of Community Medicine, Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Melaka, Malaysia.
Yadneshwar Sudam KhobragadeDepartment of Community Medicine, Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Melaka, Malaysia.
Adinegara Lutfi Bin AbasDepartment of Community Medicine, Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Melaka, Malaysia.
Manipal University College Malaysia · MY

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

contextVirtual learning is not without challenges. It can cause stress, lack of motivation, and social isolation. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, our college shifted from face-to-face to virtual teaching-learning style. the aim was to find out the barriers in virtual learning among medical students and provide solutions to overcome them. MATERIALS AND

methodsThis cross-sectional study was conducted among 3

resultsThe students had the highest mean score in individual barrier (mean: 2.82 [standard deviation (SD): 0.72]) followed by institutional barrier (mean: 2.79 [SD: 0.74]) and technological barrier (mean: 2.72 [SD: 0.75]). Regarding technological barriers, 38.6% of the students agreed difficulty in procurement of the laptop and 66.4% faced slow Internet connection. Regarding institutional barriers, 75.9% were stressed to join one lecture to another lecture as the lectures were continuous, 69.6% had limited opportunity to interact with lecturers, and 62.7% had poor communication between lecturers and students. Regarding individual barriers, 74.1% of the students were not motivated for online learning, 71.5% of the students could not learn as well as they were in the classroom, and 58.2% disagreed taking online courses in future.

conclusionLow motivation, communication, Internet connectivity, and technical problems were the main barriers. Smaller size class, highly motivated and well-trained lecturers, and interactive lectures may help in breaking the barriers of virtual learning.

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BarrierCOVID-19medicalonline learningpandemicsstudentssurvey

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