Insights into keeping students engaged online

• Main Authors: Soubakeavathi, Rethinasamy, Jonathan, Dason
• Format: Newspaper Cutting
• Language: English
• Published: The New Sarawak Tribune 2021
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); L Education (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/35843/1/index.html; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/35843/; https://www.newsarawaktribune.com.my/insights-into-keeping-students-engaged-online/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, Malaysian higher learning institutions (HLIs) have migrated to teaching classes online. With the number of cases still high, online learning is set to persist even post-pandemic thus altering the education landscape in Malaysia. Similar to other forms of online learning, the two key challenges to overcome are: • access to high-speed internet, and • access to suitable devices. These challenges are multi-faceted, with no straight-forward answers. Setting individual motivation aside, broadly speaking students studying online can be divided into four categories: