Online learning during the COVID pandemic lockdown: A cross sectional study among medical students
Introduction: We aimed to find out how medical students coped with online learning at home during the COVID 19 pandemic 'lockdown'. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out from July to December 2020, using an online SurveyMonkey Questionnaire®, with four sections: biodata; learni...
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| author | Pilane Liyanage Ariyananda Chin Jia Hui Reyhan Karthikeyan Raman Aishath Lyn Athif Tan Yuan Yong Muhammad Hafiz |
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| description | Introduction: We aimed to find out how medical students coped with online learning at home during the COVID 19 pandemic 'lockdown'.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out from July to December 2020, using an online SurveyMonkey Questionnaire®, with four sections: biodata; learning environment; study habits; open comments; sent to 1359 students of the International Medical University, Malaysia. Responses of strongly disagree, somewhat disagree, neither agree nor disagree, somewhat agree and strongly agree for the closed-ended questions on the learning environment and study habits, were scored on a 5-point Likert scale. Percentages of responses were obtained for the closed ended questions.
Results: There were 323 (23.8%) responses. This included 207 (64%) students from the preclinical semesters 1 – 5 and 116 (36%) students from clinical semesters 6 – 10. Of the respondents, more than 90% had the necessary equipment, 75% had their own personal rooms to study, and 60% had satisfactory internet connections. Several demotivating factors (especially, monotony in studying) and factors that disturbed their studies (especially, tendency to watch television) were also reported.
Conclusion: Although more than 90% of those who responded had the necessary equipment for online learning, about 40% had inadequate facilities for online learning at home and only 75% had personal rooms to study. In addition, there were factors that disturbed and demotivated their online studies.
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| spelling | doaj.art-350075a430214defa5dc8db1fecedb642022-12-22T00:47:20ZengNational University of SingaporeThe Asia Pacific Scholar2424-93352424-92702022-07-0173465010.29060/TAPS.2022-7-3/SC2715Online learning during the COVID pandemic lockdown: A cross sectional study among medical studentsPilane Liyanage Ariyananda0Chin Jia Hui1Reyhan Karthikeyan Raman2Aishath Lyn Athif3Tan Yuan Yong4Muhammad Hafiz5International Medical University, MalaysiaInternational Medical University, MalaysiaInternational Medical University, MalaysiaInternational Medical University, MalaysiaInternational Medical University, MalaysiaInternational Medical University, MalaysiaIntroduction: We aimed to find out how medical students coped with online learning at home during the COVID 19 pandemic 'lockdown'. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out from July to December 2020, using an online SurveyMonkey Questionnaire®, with four sections: biodata; learning environment; study habits; open comments; sent to 1359 students of the International Medical University, Malaysia. Responses of strongly disagree, somewhat disagree, neither agree nor disagree, somewhat agree and strongly agree for the closed-ended questions on the learning environment and study habits, were scored on a 5-point Likert scale. Percentages of responses were obtained for the closed ended questions. Results: There were 323 (23.8%) responses. This included 207 (64%) students from the preclinical semesters 1 – 5 and 116 (36%) students from clinical semesters 6 – 10. Of the respondents, more than 90% had the necessary equipment, 75% had their own personal rooms to study, and 60% had satisfactory internet connections. Several demotivating factors (especially, monotony in studying) and factors that disturbed their studies (especially, tendency to watch television) were also reported. Conclusion: Although more than 90% of those who responded had the necessary equipment for online learning, about 40% had inadequate facilities for online learning at home and only 75% had personal rooms to study. In addition, there were factors that disturbed and demotivated their online studies. https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/taps/online-learning-during-the-covid-pandemic-lockdown-a-cross-sectional-study-among-medical-students/online learningself-directed learningself-regulated learninglearning environmentmalaysian medical students |
| spellingShingle | Pilane Liyanage Ariyananda Chin Jia Hui Reyhan Karthikeyan Raman Aishath Lyn Athif Tan Yuan Yong Muhammad Hafiz Online learning during the COVID pandemic lockdown: A cross sectional study among medical students The Asia Pacific Scholar online learning self-directed learning self-regulated learning learning environment malaysian medical students |
| title | Online learning during the COVID pandemic lockdown: A cross sectional study among medical students |
| title_full | Online learning during the COVID pandemic lockdown: A cross sectional study among medical students |
| title_fullStr | Online learning during the COVID pandemic lockdown: A cross sectional study among medical students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Online learning during the COVID pandemic lockdown: A cross sectional study among medical students |
| title_short | Online learning during the COVID pandemic lockdown: A cross sectional study among medical students |
| title_sort | online learning during the covid pandemic lockdown a cross sectional study among medical students |
| topic | online learning self-directed learning self-regulated learning learning environment malaysian medical students |
| url | https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/taps/online-learning-during-the-covid-pandemic-lockdown-a-cross-sectional-study-among-medical-students/ |
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