Opinions of Students and Teachers in Primary School towards Online Learning during COVID-19 Outbreak
Keywords:
COVID-19, instruction, online learning, new normal life
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to study the opinions of students and teachers in primary school towards online learning during COVID-19 outbreak. The informants were 106 students and 45 teachers from one primary school, Mahasarakham province, Thailand in Semester 2 Academic Year 2020. Questionnaires were used for data collection through Google form. Percentage, mean, and standard deviation were employed for data analysis. Findings showed that students had opinions towards online learning during COVID-19 outbreak were at high level, but teachers are quite fluctuating level of their opinion between high and low levels. The discussion represents students are ready to have online learning than teachers who are not familiar with technology. Teachers need to reskill or upskill in field of educational technology within and post outbreak.
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Angelova, M. (2020). Students’ attitudes to the online university course of management in the context of COVID-19. International Journal of Technology in Education and Science (IJTES), 4(4), 283-292.
Bryson, J. R., & Andres, L. (2020). Covid-19 and rapid adoption and improvisation of online teaching: curating resources for extensive versus intensive online learning experiences. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 44(4), 608-623.
Cruwys, T., Stevens, M., & Greenaway, K. H. (2020). A social identity perspective on COVID‐19: Health risk is affected by shared group membership. British Journal of Social Psychology, 59(3), 584-593.
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Esposito, S., & Principi, N. (2020). School closure during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: an effective intervention at the global level?. JAMA pediatrics, 174(10), 921-922.
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Kholik, A., Yektyastuti, R., Mawardini, A., Hamamy, F., Sudjani, D. H., Ramdhani, M. R., & Gunadi, G. (2020). Analysis of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) on Indonesian certified teacher. PalArch's Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 17(6), 8634-8642.
Korkmaz, G., & Toraman, Ç. (2020). Are we ready for the post-COVID-19 educational practice? An investigation into what educators think as to online learning. International Journal of Technology in Education and Science (IJTES), 4(4), 293-309.
Munro, A. P., & Faust, S. N. (2020). Children are not COVID-19 super spreaders: time to go back to school. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 105(7), 618-619.
Nuangchalerm, P. (2017). Preservice teachers’ twenty first ventury learning skills: Three different majors of study. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 4(7), 124-128.
Nuangchalerm, P. (2020). TPACK in ASEAN perspectives: Case study on Thai pre-service teacher. International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 9(4), 993-999.
Nuangchalerm, P., Prachagool, V. & Dostál, J. (2020). Digital learning of pre-service teachers during COVID-19 outbreak. Journal of Technology and Information Education, 12(2), 143-151.
Rundle, A. G., Park, Y., Herbstman, J. B., Kinsey, E. W., & Wang, Y. C. (2020). COVID‐19–related school closings and risk of weight gain among children. Obesity, 28(6), 1008-1009.
Sleiwah, A., Mughal, M., Hachach-Haram, N., & Roblin, P. (2020). COVID-19 lockdown learning: the uprising of virtual teaching. Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, 73(8), 1575-1592.
Smoyer, A. B., O’Brien, K., & Rodriguez-Keyes, E. (2020). Lessons learned from COVID-19: Being known in online social work classrooms. International Social Work, 63(5), 651-654.
Sun, L., Tang, Y., & Zuo, W. (2020). Coronavirus pushes education online. Nature Materials, 19(6), 687-687.
Wijaya, T. T., Zhou, Y., Purnama, A., & Hermita, N. (2020). Indonesian students’ learning attitude towards online learning during the coronavirus pandemic. Psychology, Evaluation, and Technology in Educational Research, 3(1), 17-25.
Published
2021-04-30
How to Cite
Nuangchalerm, P., Wongjamnong, C., & Muangou, C. (2021). Opinions of Students and Teachers in Primary School towards Online Learning during COVID-19 Outbreak. Pedagogi: Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan, 21(1), 30-35. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.24036/pedagogi.v21i1.1006
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