Overview

Original Research

IMPACT OF VIRTUAL LEARNING AMONG FILIPINO PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS

FRIGILLANO, SHIRLEY D.

Vol 17, No 06 ( 2022 )   |  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6668698   |   Author Affiliation: Associate Professor V at ISAT U Miagao Campus, Miagao, Iloilo, Philippines.   |   Licensing: CC 4.0   |   Pg no: 664-675   |   To cite: FRIGILLANO, SHIRLEY D. (2022). IMPACT OF VIRTUAL LEARNING AMONG FILIPINO PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS. 17(06), 664–675. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6668698   |   Published on: 17-06-2022

Abstract

This study looked into the pre-service teachers' personal growth amid the difficulties of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. A descriptive-qualitative method used an online questionnaire containing open-ended questions to collect the participants’ narrative information. The participants involved 79 pre-service teachers with internet connectivity. The researcher identified the students’ benefits or personal growth with online learning by analyzing their written narratives and responses to the online questions. The researcher identified and categorized the themes into the pre-service teachers' personal growth, including the major difficulties they met. The findings showed that pre-service teachers encountered passive interaction, distractions, modules problems, and time management difficulties as effects of poor internet connectivity. However, amid these struggles, they have developed personal growth by becoming independent learners and they learned to value family life.

Keywords

Covid-19, challenging, experiences, virtual, pandemic.