Synchronous Learning: The Challenges Faced by the Grade 12 Humanities Students of Bestlink College of the Philippines in Their Home Environment

Vol.3, No.1D

Abstract

Since the pandemic has hit globally and challenged the world, especially the Education sector, prohibiting students from attending their face-to-face classes is a challenge education encounters with safety protocols. Therefore, higher heads concluded changing traditional face-to-face classes into Synchronous learning. Synchronous Learning is a real-time class session with present students and teachers from different locations attending virtual classes simultaneously using video, audio, and chat features. According to some studies, using synchronous learning to continue teaching amidst the pandemic has various challenges to be faced by the students. This study aims to know the Synchronous Learning Challenges Faced by the Grade 12 Humanities Students of Bestlink College of the Philippines in their Home Environment. 

The target respondents were 50 Grade 12 Humanities students of Bestlink College of the Philippines. The researchers used simple random sampling as their sampling technique. The researchers present questions from the related studies and literature to acquire the needed information. The Researchers used a survey questionnaire to get the needed data. Fortunately, this study Discover the challenges that students encounter, which are “being suddenly Disconnected” means the respondents agree to this as the common problem they faced with a weighted mean of 4.1, followed by “distractions of online apps (e.g. Facebook, Messenger, ML etc.)” with a weighted mean of 3.6. For the effects of those Challenges on the student's learning process, “being not attentive to class” is the highest Rank with a weighted mean of 3.6, and the lowest rank is the “feeling of being held back” With a weighted mean of 2.3. Moreover, at the end of the study, the researchers provide a solution for the challenges encountered. Some of those are; “Inform your teacher for them to know that You suddenly disconnected while having class; “Always inform your teacher every time there’s a problem with audio clarity, being delayed and so on; and “Find a particular place Inside your home where background noises cannot interrupt you while having class and a place where the signal is strong so that you can focus”.