NEW NORMAL EDUCATION: THE BEED EXPERIENCES WITH BLENDED LEARNING APPROACHES AMIDST COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The latest COVID-19 pandemic, which began in China and has nearly affected every country on the planet, is one of the most recent public health crises of global concern. This disease is caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, previously known as 2019-nCoV) and has received global attention from growing infections how to eradicate the disease and flatten the curve of infections (Guo et al., 2020).
This study is to examine the experiences of BEED students in new normal education with blended learning approaches Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic. To achieve this, quantitative-inferential and descriptive research method was adopted. This study focuses on the BEED students of College of Teacher Education at Sultan Kudarat State University. Total-enumeration sampling technique is utilized as it will be dealing with only 35 students, a total respondent which is less than 1000 research sample population.
Research finding shows that new normal education implementation responded by BEED students shows that the topics delivered in modular learning approach cannot be easily understood solely by the students. Online learning using messenger chatting or texting with the teachers’ messages were sometimes confusing and limiting the meaning of the message(s) taught which in returns had limited as well the understanding of the students about the topic received.
Virtual classes and topic discussions in an online classroom meeting ---most students were just connecting via Pesonet and that the internet connectivity is not consistent. Learning experiences of the students in the new normal education specifically in the answering of the students’ learning activities had been observed by the study as neither easy nor difficult. The availability of educational information technology devices for the online class communication are not similarly true to all due to economic deficiency. Thus, students find difficulties in attending classes. The internet connectivity of the student-teacher and their communication to receive updates about the class and in complying to the class requirements is very irregular and not consistent.

最新一轮的COVID-19疫情，源于我国，几乎波及全球各个角落，已成为引发全球关注的公共卫生危机之一。该疾病由一种新型冠状病毒（SARS-CoV-2，之前被称为2019-nCoV）引起，全球对其关注度随着感染病例的增加而日益上升，焦点集中在如何根除疾病、平抑感染曲线（Guo等，2020年）。本研究旨在探讨在新冠疫情期间，教育技术（BEED）学生在混合式学习方式下的教育新常态体验。为实现此目标，采用了定量推理和描述性研究方法。本研究聚焦于苏禄库达拉特州立大学教师教育学院的教育技术（BEED）学生。采用总体列举抽样技术，鉴于研究对象仅35名学生，总受访者的数量低于1000人的研究样本总体。研究结果表明，教育新常态的实施在BEED学生中的反应表明，模块化学习方式中传授的主题学生难以完全理解。在线学习中，通过即时通讯软件或短信与教师交流的信息有时令人困惑，限制了信息的意义，进而限制了学生对所学主题的理解。虚拟课堂和在线课堂会议中的主题讨论——大多数学生仅通过Pesonet连接，且网络连接不稳定。研究观察到，在新的教育常态下，特别是在学生回答学习活动的问题时，学生的学习体验既非易亦非难。由于经济匮乏，并非所有学生都能获得用于在线课堂通信的教育信息技术设备，这并不适用于所有人。因此，学生在参加课堂方面遇到了困难。学生与教师之间的互联网连接以及他们接收课程更新和遵守课程要求之间的沟通非常不规律且不稳定。