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AN INSIGHT OF ONLINE TEACHING & LEARNING AMID COVID-19 PANDEMIC AT POLITEKNIK BRUNEI: LESSONS LEARNED

The second wave of Covid-19 pandemic in Brunei has forced all education providers to resort to online teaching and learning again, including Politeknik Brunei. This study aims to gain some insights of students’ and lecturers’ perspectives of online learning activities. The online questionnaire links were sent via email, where 989 students and 92 lecturers from across all schools under the polytechnic responded. Descriptive and inferential analysis were employed for all data collected. Overall, the findings suggest that the effectiveness of online learning at Politeknik Brunei is at a moderate level with a mean of 23.8 and a standard deviation of 4.13 (Cronbach’s α=0.71). There is no statistical significant difference in effectiveness of online learning among five different study focus groups as revealed by Tukey-Kramer post-hoc test. Meanwhile, the effectiveness of online teaching is also at a moderate level with a mean of 28.8 and a standard deviation of 3.72 (Cronbach’s α=0.68). The results also show that while the main challenge is internet instability for everyone, the main benefit is time and/or energy saved from travelling. Although online learning poses many limitations to everyone, it is probably high time to reconsider a permanent shift in the post pandemic education setting to prepare ourselves for the new norm. Keywords: Online-Learning, Pandemic, Effectiveness, Benefits, Challenges