The Online Learning and Students’ Fear of COVID-19: Study in Malaysia and Pakistan

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions of students to stay indoors and adapt to the new normal, namely distance learning at home, placing online learning in the spotlight. However, students’ motivation for online learning and its effectiveness in skill development during the COVID-19 pandemic ha...

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Autores principales:	Farhat Munir, Aizza Anwar, Daisy Mui Hung Kee
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2021
Materias:	fear of COVID-19 social presence cognitive problem-solving skills psychological motivation online learning Pakistan Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fa7bcab76e97411886b2d1eb397ad20d2021-11-24T22:29:44ZThe Online Learning and Students’ Fear of COVID-19: Study in Malaysia and Pakistan10.19173/irrodl.v22i4.56371492-3831https://doaj.org/article/fa7bcab76e97411886b2d1eb397ad20d2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/5637https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831 The COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions of students to stay indoors and adapt to the new normal, namely distance learning at home, placing online learning in the spotlight. However, students’ motivation for online learning and its effectiveness in skill development during the COVID-19 pandemic has not been widely studied. This study examined the relationship between students’ fear of COVID-19 and students’ social presence in online learning while investigating the parallel mediating role of student psychological motivation and cognitive problem-solving skills related to online learning. The participants were 472 university students in Malaysia and Pakistan. An online data collection technique using Google Forms was employed. Faculty members of the universities were asked to share the survey with their students. Moreover, using a snowball sampling technique, students were requested to share the survey with their friends. SPSS Statistics (Version 21) was employed to do preliminary data analysis, AMOS (Version 21) software was used to conduct confirmatory factor analysis using a maximum likelihood estimation, and Hayes’ PROCESS model was used to examine proposed hypotheses. The results show that only cognitive problem solving mediates the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and students’ social presence in online learning in Malaysian samples. In Pakistan, cognitive problem solving and psychological motivation mediate the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and students’ social presence in online learning. The study found that developing cognitive problem-solving skills and providing psychological motivation could enhance their engagement with online learning. Farhat MunirAizza AnwarDaisy Mui Hung KeeAthabasca University Pressarticlefear of COVID-19social presencecognitive problem-solving skillspsychological motivationonline learningPakistanSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 22, Iss 4 (2021)
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description	The COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions of students to stay indoors and adapt to the new normal, namely distance learning at home, placing online learning in the spotlight. However, students’ motivation for online learning and its effectiveness in skill development during the COVID-19 pandemic has not been widely studied. This study examined the relationship between students’ fear of COVID-19 and students’ social presence in online learning while investigating the parallel mediating role of student psychological motivation and cognitive problem-solving skills related to online learning. The participants were 472 university students in Malaysia and Pakistan. An online data collection technique using Google Forms was employed. Faculty members of the universities were asked to share the survey with their students. Moreover, using a snowball sampling technique, students were requested to share the survey with their friends. SPSS Statistics (Version 21) was employed to do preliminary data analysis, AMOS (Version 21) software was used to conduct confirmatory factor analysis using a maximum likelihood estimation, and Hayes’ PROCESS model was used to examine proposed hypotheses. The results show that only cognitive problem solving mediates the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and students’ social presence in online learning in Malaysian samples. In Pakistan, cognitive problem solving and psychological motivation mediate the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and students’ social presence in online learning. The study found that developing cognitive problem-solving skills and providing psychological motivation could enhance their engagement with online learning.
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title_short	The Online Learning and Students’ Fear of COVID-19: Study in Malaysia and Pakistan
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The Online Learning and Students’ Fear of COVID-19: Study in Malaysia and Pakistan

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