A REVIEW OF ONLINE LEARNING IMPACTS DURING PANDEMIC COVID-19 AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

Due to COVID-19, the education mode has shifted from face-to-face to online learning. This is to decrease close contact with others to protect the university students' and staffs’ health. There are two types of online learning which are simultaneous delivery and asynchronous delivery of teaching and learning. This study aims to investigate the impact of online learning in education during pandemic COVID-19 including the advantages and disadvantages of online learning among university students around the world. Systematic review has been identified as the methodology of this study whereby 25 articles were reviewed and analysed. The articles selected are published in year 2020 until 2021 while the content are based on keywords related to the advantages, disadvantages and effectiveness of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings of the review implicated that the online learning has advantages such as time flexibility, ease of to access online resources, studying at own pace and the students were able to understand the learning content easily with multimedia elements. Meanwhile, the disadvantages were technical issues such as internet access problems, lack of interaction between the teachers and students, easy distraction, insufficient devices and high expenditure on purchasing data plans. As conclusion, the online learning has given more positive impacts to all university students compared to negative impacts based on the reviewed from 25 studies which involved more than 13 countries. The positive impacts were related with the advantages of OL and vice versa. It is also found that Whats app has been approved as the most preferred OL tools that has been used by the university students during the pandemic time.