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.