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ArticleIEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions2020

Understanding Education Difficulty During COVID-19 Lockdown: Reports on Malaysian University Students' Experience.

Rasheed Mohammad Nassr, Abdulaziz Aborujilah, Danah Ahmed Aldossary, Alia Ahmed Abdullah Aldossary

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Article in IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Rasheed Mohammad NassrMIIT, UniKL Kuala Lumpur 50250 Malaysia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0800-428X
Abdulaziz AborujilahMIIT, UniKL Kuala Lumpur 50250 Malaysia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7497-4321
Danah Ahmed AldossaryCommunity CollegeImam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University Dammam 32422 Saudi Arabia.
Alia Ahmed Abdullah AldossaryCommunity CollegeImam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University Dammam 32422 Saudi Arabia.
Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University · SAUniversity of Kuala Lumpur · MY

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has struck the world and forced countries to go into lockdown including education sector. Students have been staying in hostels or houses, unable to go to university campuses. This situation has left university administrators no choice, but to have an online learning channel. Malaysian universities in particular have gone through many challenges to bring their online learning system up and ready to resume education process. However, students have found themselves caught in this situation (pure online learning) with no plan or readiness. Literature reviews showed that students encountered some challenges that could not be easily resolved. This study explored the challenges encountered by students of a government-linked university. This university is one of the largest in Malaysia with over 10 campuses across the country. This study collected 284 valid answers. The findings show that respondents lacked full readiness in this situation physically, environmentally, and psychologically with some differences in perspectives according to their gender, age, and residing state. Respondents were concerned about the implications of lockdown on their performance. The findings of this study indicate that a sudden switch to a pure online alternative creates considerable challenges to students who have no plans to be physically apart from classes. The findings also indicate that the current blended learning process which uses online learning as a support mechanism for face-to-face learning has faced a considerable challenge to replace it, particularly with unprepared students.

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country lockdownCOVID-19 epidemicMalaysiaonline learning

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