Difficulties in Remote Learning: Voices of Philippine University Students in the Wake of COVID-19 Crisis

Rotas, Erwin; Cahapay, Michael B.

doi:10.5281/zenodo.4299835

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“…Because of these financial and technical obstacles, students are also challenged with electricity interruptions or/and with the storage capacity of their available digital devices. Making these needs meet requires individual or family internet expenses (Rotas & Cahapay, 2020). Thus, students attending universities in the so-called developing countries, where the technological infrastructure is not very developed, face significant problems due to technological developments in higher education, which are not sufficient for an urgent educational transition (Crawford et al, 2020).…”

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Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning in Greek Universities During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Attitudes of University Students

Zagkos

Kyridis

Kamarianos

et al. 2022

EUR J INTERACT MULTIMED ED

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Undoubtedly the pandemic of COVID-19 had a great impact globally on our daily activities. Whereas to face this unprecedented situation all the educational institutions were compelled to keep the lessons conducted over the internet. Under the current circumstances this quantitative research detects, describes, and measures attitudes of 807 students of 5 Greek universities towards the distance learning process. The data that was collected by using a 5-point Likert scale reflects the strong agreement of the students that face-to-face teaching cannot be replaced by distance learning, especially when it comes to laboratory training. The consensus is also that remote learning has abased pedagogical relationships between professors and classmates and among the latter as well. Findings indicate that students come to a meeting of minds about the educational inequalities which are worsened by the lack of digital equipment and undeveloped technological infrastructure. Furthermore, this study reveals a correlation between the responses of the sample and their demographic and social characteristics, something that offers possibilities for additional research.

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Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning in Greek Universities During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Attitudes of University Students

Zagkos

Kyridis

Kamarianos

et al. 2022

EUR J INTERACT MULTIMED ED

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“…However, with the COVID-19 crisis, most of these science activities traditionally implemented in a face-to-face modality have come to be halted. Some futuristic learning spaces have been proposed to emulate these activities in virtual forms, but in developing countries like the Philippines where structural problems plague the implementation of remote education (Rotas & Cahapay, 2020;Rotas & Cahapay, 2021), this can be a herculean task to accomplish. Some discussion papers have been published to contemplate on the current situation and tackle how science in the field of education can be reshaped to attune itself to the current times (e.g.…”

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Experiments Gone Wrong? Lived Experience of Filipino Teachers in Remote Science Education amid COVID-19 Crisis

Cahapay

Labrador²

2021

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The COVID-19 crisis moved teachers to engage in a sort of emergency instructional experiment to redesign how science could and should be taught. The lived experience of the teachers as implementers in the ground can be a source of practical insights in the continuous improvement of remote science education. Thus, the purpose of this phenomenology research is to analyze the lived experience of teachers in remote science education in the wake of continuing COVID-19 crisis. Through online interview procedures, eight purposively sampled secondary science teachers from public schools in Mindanao, Philippines were involved in this study. Using data analysis framework consistent with the descriptive approach in phenomenology, the responses of the participants were examined in stages. The results revealed four themes: (1) presenting difficult concepts in remote science teaching; (2) encountering challenges in the delivery of remote science teaching; (3) adjusting instructional practices in remote science teaching; and (4) drawing types of support to improve remote science teaching. These themes form the phenomenon of remote science education from the perspective of the teachers in the context of a crisis. Several practical recommendations to improve current remote science instruction are discussed at the end of this paper.

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“…They expressed that the group of indigenous peoples in the rural community is one of the segments from which connectivity is often not accessible, or if accessible, it may be costly for most students from indigenous families on a low income. Within the same context, Rotas and Cahapay (2020) reported this problem on digital divides usually intertwined in financial issues. Thus, the current crisis affecting education has distraught most college students belonging to the group of indigenous peoples as divides have been starker now.…”

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The Essence of Education in Disruptive COVID-19 Crisis: Capturing the Lived Experience of College Students in the Philippines

Cahapay

2021

RIMCIS

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Asserting a responsive, appropriate, and relevant education has historically always been a problem for most learners from marginalized groups. This extant inequality has been magnified in the present novel crisis. Thus, drawing from the lived experience of college students belonging to the marginalized group of indigenous peoples, this research described the essence of education in the context of the current COVID-19 crisis. Following the phenomenological approach based upon the hermeneutic rule of Dahlberg et al. (2008), the researcher interviewed 10 Filipino college students who identify themselves as indigenous peoples. Four themes emerged: 1.) It surprised me: Education has a changed ecology; 2.) It overwhelmed me: Education is fraught with divides; 3.) It motivated me: Education is a driver of aspiration beyond crisis; and 4.) It taught me: Education has unintended positive outcomes. These themes form the structure of the essence of education amid the COVID-19 crisis from the perspectives of college students belonging to the group of indigenous peoples. This research underlines the practical significance of analyzing the state of the students amid a virulent crisis. Given the extant inequality and considering the anticipated educational recovery phase, measures should be planned towards the attainment of responsive, appropriate, and relevant education.

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Difficulties in Remote Learning: Voices of Philippine University Students in the Wake of COVID-19 Crisis

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Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning in Greek Universities During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Attitudes of University Students

Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning in Greek Universities During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Attitudes of University Students

Experiments Gone Wrong? Lived Experience of Filipino Teachers in Remote Science Education amid COVID-19 Crisis

The Essence of Education in Disruptive COVID-19 Crisis: Capturing the Lived Experience of College Students in the Philippines

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