Abstract
The global pandemic COVID-19 has hit the world tremendously and shifted all normal daily routines to a new way of living. Education and knowledge sharing has now been held virtually to prevent the spread of this life-threatening virus. Hence, students nowadays have to cope with so many changes in the execution of their courses and assignments. Aside from this challenge, lectures now have to be conducted strictly online and the lecturers can no longer physically be with them to teach face-to-face as per previous practice. Therefore, this study aims to explain the motivational conditions of students when using various media in ODL. The survey has been distributed to 174 numbers of students from one of the Higher Learning Institution in East Peninsular Malaysia. The result showed that even students who are in worry, restless and wanted everything to be ended immediately, still try their best to perform and to gain knowledge through any medium that they can to perform their best.
Highlights
The World Health Organization has declared that the pandemic of novel virus COVID-19 has become a major public health concern and challenge worldwide (World Health Organisation, 2020)
The researchers had conducted a survey related to learning motivation where it is focused on learning material, visual face-to-face meetings, assignments, and language
Wardani (2018) showed that blended learning can help students to become more active in the learning process in class and online, and be able to aid the learning process to be more enjoyable
Summary
The World Health Organization has declared that the pandemic of novel virus COVID-19 has become a major public health concern and challenge worldwide (World Health Organisation, 2020). The policy of compulsory physical distancing has been implemented in many countries including the ones in Malaysia. Learning institutions such as schools and universities are compelled to make appropriate and timely modifications to continue delivering education and to sustain the continuation of students. Data dated July 2021 shows that there are 196, 553, 009 confirmed cases and 4, 200, 412 deaths all around the world as reported by World Health Organization (WHO). Up to the date, has recorded 1, 130, 422 cases that were reported by the Ministry of Health (MOH) Malaysia and 9, 184
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