Lecturers’ Readiness and Emotional Presence on Online Teaching Data in a Malaysian University During COVID-19

Abstract

This article presented a survey data on the lecturers' perception on online teaching during the COVID-19 outbreak. The study adopted a quantitative approach with an open-ended survey questionnaire to establish lecturers' readiness and their emotional presence in adopting 100% online teaching from home. The questionnaire consists of two sections, quantitative and qualitative. As for the quantitative section, the data comprised of demographic characteristics of research respondents and the qualitative section consisted of staff feedback. The data inclusive of 180 academic staff of Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia and was analysed using SPSS 22.0. Therefore, these results offer invaluable evidence for university's management as well as policy makers to make further improvements of online teaching and learning as well as lecturers' readiness in online teaching.