Quality of life of undergraduate students in distance learning: a phenomenology

Abstract

In accordance to human’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, a major step has been made by the education sector. Implementing distance learning among all levels of education as a form of education that involves physical separation of teachers and students during instruction. This study is a phenomenological approach where it investigates undergraduate’s perceptions, attitudes and willingness to try distance learning which can provide guidance and recommendations for the future. A survey was distributed to undergraduate students in UM Tagum College, Tagum City, Davao del Norte, Philippines who are selected randomly from any year level in order to recognized their quality of life under distance learning. The results of this study showed that undergraduate students’ major concern about such programs were beating the time limit, classes interruption, teaching factor, learning difficulty, seeking help from peers, building self-learning, staying connected in the class, finding interaction in the instruction phase, creating self-motivation learning, continue learning, persevere learning, consideration of time bounded learning and the extending understanding in every learning modality Although students shared diverse experiences under distance learning, all of them has one goal and that is to passed the year level and finish their study.