Influence factors for proceeding with open and distance learning: UiTM Pahang sharing experience

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost all sectors in the world, including education. As an effort to break the chain of virus spreading, schools and higher institutions in most countries have stopped all physical classes for a while. Ministry of Education has directed a virtual learning to be conducted in schools and higher education during Movement Control Order was implemented in Malaysia to proceed the teaching and learning process. The virtual learning included online and offline learning which is called as open distance learning. Hence, the main objective of this study is to identify the factors that influence the Universiti Teknologi MARA Pahang Branch students to continue practicing the open and distance learning. A set of questionnaires was disseminated to all 7,363 students of Universiti Teknologi MARA Pahang, where a number of 1,181 responses had been received from the survey conducted with a responding rate of 16%. The demographic aspects of the students were represented by a descriptive statistic and the identification o f p o ssible f a ctors w a s u s ed t o b u ild a n e w analysis model using logistic regression analysis. According to the results obtained, there are six factors that influenced t he s tudents t o c ontinue p racticing O DL w hich a r e: 1 ) w orkstation, 2 ) internet access, 3) learning equipment 4) understanding learning video 5) frequentness of device usage and 6) exchange of final e x amination t o fi na l as se ssment. Ba se d on th e ov er all mo de l, 70.94% of the sample was correctly classified.