Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has caused a major transformation in the education system around the world. Due to the closure of schools and other learning institutions, the teaching and learning that were once face to face are now conducted online. Sudden change of education landscape has put educators and students in harrowing time. This paper reviews literature to find out the challenges faced by educators when teaching online. The results reveal that all educators around the world are facing intrinsic challenges, such as little or no knowledge, skills and experience in the implementation of online teaching, as well as extrinsic challenges such as students having no Internet access and coverage and own no proper gadgets. It is found out that the biggest challenge faced by most local educators as compared to their counterparts in some parts of the world is their lower level of readiness in facing the transition from teaching traditionally to online. Keywords: COVID-19, pandemic, online teaching, challenges in online teaching, readiness in online teaching DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-2-06 Publication date: January 31 st 2021
Highlights
It has been a norm in Malaysia that teaching and learning in primary and secondary schools are done face to face in the classroom
Similar situation is observed in the local universities as Prof Datuk Mohammad Shatar Sabran, the vice chancellor of Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI) mentioned that the online education system in the universities has not reach its optimum level even though internet access is not a problem
4.Discussion This paper reviews the challenges faced by the educators in online teaching during the pandemic that has impacted everyone around the globe in 2020
Summary
It has been a norm in Malaysia that teaching and learning in primary and secondary schools are done face to face in the classroom. Streamed video on the Internet is commonly used to deliver course lectures recorded in classrooms (Renee Walllace, n.d) This situation is the result of educators having little or no knowledge and experience in utilizing the ICT tools in teaching and learning processes (Gold, 2001). Online teaching and learning have yet to reach the level of satisfaction for educators and students For some teachers, this is difficult because today, there are still many teachers who are lack of skills in the use of information technology to enable them to deliver teaching materials online (Anuar Ahmad, 2020), (Haslindar Nor Ismail, 2020), (Tunku, 2020), (Putra,2020), (Simin et al, 2020), (JPK Malaysia, 2020).
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