Abstract
During the Covid-19 pandemic, universities adopted several learning modes to ensure the contention of the education activities. They adopted many methods of learning such as online once (online real-time with no recorded lecture; face-to-screen instead of face-to-face), online repeatable (online real-time with recorded lecture), Self (pre-recorded lecture only), and blended (pre-recorded lecture with face-to-face learning). Since all these methods are adopted without any evidence of their acceptance by the students, the rouse of this study is to evaluate each of these modes and identify the most preferred mode of learn-ing. Also, this study tested the new method of blended learning preferred by the students. A questionnaire was shared among the students in two faculties in the University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, and 903 were responded. Accordingly, this study found that the majority of the students preferred online real-time lectures together with the recorded lectures. This method was again tested with a selected student group and confirmed. Thus, this study recommends face-to screen lectures together with the recorded lesson is the most appropriate method to adopt during the new normal context.
Highlights
In March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic made all industries worldwide immediately closed for all the in-person activities and forced to adhere to social distancing, travel restrictions and lockdowns
Almost all higher education institutions and academics shifted to the online mode of teaching and adopted their own pedagogical approach, which has led to varying effectiveness and practicability of teaching and learning
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, higher education institutes employed several learning modes like Physical, Online Once, Online Repeatable, Self (Pre-recorded lecture only), Blended (Pre-recorded lecture followed by faceto-face activities) to reach their students and continue the higher education which is essential for any economy
Summary
In March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic made all industries worldwide immediately closed for all the in-person activities and forced to adhere to social distancing, travel restrictions and lockdowns. It could be observed that academics use various teaching methods to continue the teaching and learning process through this online delivery mechanism. It is interesting to see how receptive this idea of continuing online delivery of lectures in the post Covid-19 era will be to the student community [5]. It is interesting and important to investigate how the students who had an opportunity to follow lectures in Blended learning mode think about continuing education with this mode of learning. The purpose of this study is three-fold; to investigate the most appropriate teaching methods from the students’ perspective, whether to continue online learning in the post Covid-19 pandemic era, and to test the students’ perception on the new mode of blended learning as the most preferred learning mode with a selected cohort of students. To identify whether students are in support of continuing online learning in the post Covid-19 era
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