Hello everyone. Hye sir. Welcome back to my channel. Today I will continue my story and I hope you enjoy it. Before this I already share with you guys about why I miss UPSI so much right? Okay now, lets continue with the next topic which is about My Online Learning Journey and how is it going so far for me… 

As you know, the government’s plans to completely do away with physical classes and go fully digital for lessons until the end of this year seems ideal as the risk to exposure and spreading of Covid-19 can be reduced with the avoidance of crowds forming and with students learning from the comfort of their homes. So this is my fifth week of online learning and I am currently in week 10 now and  have another 4 weeks to go for this semester. I think it is quite though for me. At first I thought that online learning is easy but it is not as easy as you can see!

Why I say like that? This is because I have poor internet access in my hometown. Sometimes it is difficult for me to reach out for such online assessment and also lectures. Since I have no wifi at my house, I have to depend on my own data and it is limited and costly. Besides, my home is not a learning environment like at UPSI, where there are lecturers, other students, a library, lots of space, and those who you can get support from. At home is like a sleeping or resting environment. In UPSI, I can focus more on my assignments and get engaged in the subject. Whenever I'm in a class, I feel prepared to learn and get my brain pumped but at home, I feel like it's very hard to be prepared because I'm always getting distracted. Whenever I need help, my lecturers or classmates are there for me and I can get the answer on the spot but when I have a question at home, I have to wait for their response.

Then, it is  hard for me to understand the assignments and having to not be able to check with my lecturers face to face if I am doing it correct or not. It doesn't make me confident because I want to make sure that I am actually doing the assignment correctly in order to deserve the credit for it. Believe it or not, we will spend more time studying and completing assignments in the online environment than we will in universities. The online environment is text-based. To communicate with lecturers and other students, we must type messages and have to read the lecture materials that can take more time than listening to the lecturer in class. We will likely learn more in an online environment, but we will have to make a greater effort to accomplish that learning. Thus, if I were to choose online learning or learning face to face, I would rather choose learning face to face. I really hope that everything will be back to normal.

I think that’s all from me. I hope you enjoy my podcast and see you next episode. Stay safe and take care sir. Byee