Abstract
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the schools and universities around the globe, including Malaysia, were compelled to cease their operations and migrate to online teaching and learning environment. Along with this ‘forced approach’ to learning, the educators were faced with several barriers and challenges that need to be addressed. This paper intends to determine the challenges of teaching and learning Product Design courses in Malaysian universities using the online environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also highlights some of the strategies and initiatives adopted and adapted by the lecturers of this course in surmounting those challenges. Using a real-time video interview, data were collected from 10 respondents from various faculties of Malaysian higher education institutions offering product design courses. The findings of the study point to a range of difficulties in teaching Product Design courses online, including the need for more delicate interactions to ensure efficiencies in teaching and learning design courses, as well as the evaluation methods to achieve design learning and design outcomes.
Highlights
Novel Coronavirus’ (COVID-19) latest outbreak has caused a worldwide outcry due to its deadly existence
AND DISCUSSIONS Based on the analysis of interviews, the challenges and initiatives of teaching product design course using online platform during the COVID-19 pandemic are described as follow: The Challenges and Initiatives of Teaching Theory-Based Product Design Subject using Online Platform The experience of using a real-time video platform such Webex, Google Meet, Skype and Zoom to deliver lectures, hosting discussion and presentation session for theory-based product design subjects is not the same as sitting in a real classroom or lecture hall
It can be concluded that it was incredibly challenging to teach product design’s courses online where more delicate interactions are required to ensure the efficiencies of teaching and learning, design outcome, and assessment approach to achieve the learning outcomes
Summary
Novel Coronavirus’ (COVID-19) latest outbreak has caused a worldwide outcry due to its deadly existence. Across Malaysia’s public and private universities, polytechnics and community colleges, this is equivalent to 4.9 million school students and 1.2 million in higher education institutions, including some 130,000 international students (Salleh et al, 2020). Online learning is used as a solution for educators to share their knowledge using e-learning or other platforms as education needs to be conducted during MCO. While having advantages such as time flexibility, environment flexibility and lower costs, there are few barriers and challenges that need to be addressed for the Product Design course. The data gathered through a real-time video interview with 10 respondents from eight Malaysian higher education institutions that offer Product Design courses
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