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Muhamad Syamim Bin Mohd Sharif (JK/13989/21)

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Muhamad Syamim Bin Mohd Sharif (JK/13989/21)

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1. As a governments servants and sole breadwinner of the family, i have only a single stream of income to pay for all expenses, bills and liabilities. After paying for everything else, the money required to pay my tuition fees can be rather tight.

2. It can be difficult to join a live tuition online class or do a time - based online assignment with sudden and unexpected internet interruptions. This can also create problem to submit assignment when i keep getting kicked out of the system or server.

3. i have 2 children - one 2 years 10 months old and the other approaching 16 months. the constant noise and having to attend to their needs and demands make it difficult to focus on my assignment and studies. Sometimes even written notes and assignments gets torn, scribbled all over or just goes missing.

4. I have the same time as everyone else - 24 hours a day - but this time is spent working full time, managing a family, studying and completing my assignment, and my personal hobbies. Sometimes i have no time left and i am tired and physically drained.

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SATISH KUMAR A/L PANNEER CHELVAN (JK/13851/21)

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SATISH KUMAR A/L PANNEER CHELVAN (JK/13851/21)

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One of the most important and direct contrast with traditional education, is having no set times for classes and no assign physical place to go. This means that if the student is not well discipline and can managed time in a reasonable manner, he or she might not be able to cope with the work. Another challenge posed by online learning is the comparability of the materials they’ll use, text books, and others, etc. The instructor has to make sure that the materials being used in the online course equals in quality the traditional one and that it has been well adapted to the online course. The biggest challenge posed by online learning could be technology, at this might affect older adults even more. The problem may arise when the students’ technological capabilities or training might not be enough to do what’s expected. In the other hand, if the student’s equipment does not meet the technological requirements need it; it will not be able to work efficiently.

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during the pandemic not only did Malaysia have problems having to change to distance learning but this was a global problem. The clapping from website above presents the challenges of online learning during the pandemic.

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MUHAMMAD HILMI BIN AZMI (JK/14001/21)

Time management is the main factor as a distance learner because the majority of students in this program are employed and married. Therefore, a proper time arrangement is needed to cope with their studies. As distance learners, we have to find time and place when we can study without distractions. We can choose to study whether late at night or early morning. There are several time management tips for distance learners such as avoiding multitasking, setting goals, doing study schedules, and getting out of distractions.

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FARINALSUZIE BINTI ABD RAHIM
JK/13917/21

As a distance student as well as a customs officer, I had to face daily challenges like waking up early and sleeping very late every day. Time management in my daily life is very important because 24 hours is not enough to do all my daily routines. Early in the morning I will be in the office at 8 am to do the work in the office and do the operations carried out.after I go home there are a few hours to do homework and spend time with family and children to review lessons together.

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AHMAD AHRORI BIN ABD HAMID (JK/13666/21)

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AHMAD AHRORI BIN ABD HAMID (JK/13666/21)

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as we all know, online learning and teaching are virtually watching live video duration, using apps such as Google meet, and WebEx Meeting to impart knowledge to students. In this case, there are some challenges that need to be faced to convey knowledge, such as internet network problems, lack of reference materials, and making it difficult for students to interact face to face (ask) to the lecturer to complete an assignment. Therefore, this is a challenge for students to adopt new norms to achieve success in education.

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Ahmad Fakaruddin Bin Abdul Rahman JK/13668/21

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Ahmad Fakaruddin Bin Abdul Rahman JK/13668/21

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Among the challenges i found difficult was that employers did not understand my situation as a student. There were times when employers kept asking me to work even though i had told them I had studies sessions. However i don’t blame the employer because that is normal working in a company. I also have to spend time to see my child’s level of learning in school and teach him some subjects that are not understood besides running the job as a father and husband.

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PRACTICE 8- SUPPORTING DETAILS                               KARPPAKA ANDY JP/11109/21  

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PRACTICE 8- SUPPORTING DETAILS                               KARPPAKA ANDY JP/11109/21  

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In my current situation where i'm part-time studying and full time working, my time is fully taken up. I need to always ensure i have made a proper planning for my work and my studies. For example, every Saturday and Sunday i will ensure on attending my assignment fully the whole 2 days, as for the weekday, i will be to exhausted to attend to it, attending classes is my responsibility. Its my passion to peruse my education. I'm clearly aware of the challenges and committed to it one hundred percent.

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JK/14036/21

As a student, mother and also as a government employee, I face problems in terms of time.Tiring conditions and the feeling of not enough time. Coming home from work had to cook and do all the homework before i allocate two hours to do my assignment, study and spend some times with my family.

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PUTERI NAZIRAH BT JAMAL ZABIDI (JG/12360/21)

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PUTERI NAZIRAH BT JAMAL ZABIDI (JG/12360/21)

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Time management is the main key to taking control of everything in your path. As for a distance learning student, it helps me the most to get through the toughest period of studies. In fact, without proper time management, I would not be able to complete the assignments, present at any online classes and I might get a lower grade or fail for the semester. With all of this happening, I might drop out for the next semester or I will be emotionally depressed. Therefore, with good time management, I can easily manage my studies, my job, my life, and my personal concern. I would not be worried about not being able to fulfill my duties as a student. I can commit to every task and I can support my coursemate in their studies too.

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SUPPORTING DETAIL: CHALLENGES I FACE AS A DISTANCE LEARNING STUDENT

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SUPPORTING DETAIL: CHALLENGES I FACE AS A DISTANCE LEARNING STUDENT

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MAS AIYU BT ADAM
JP/11153/21

As an adult with a fulltime job, it is never easy for me to manage my time for study purpose effectively. Work schedule that quite hectic and full every week making me extra tired and easily stress out. Moreover, this causing me so much stress that i cannot sleep properly and this affect my time management. Research shows that effective time management will result in great academic achievement and less anxiety among students. Due to ineffective time  manangement, the risk of getting fail is high. One of the challenge that i faced is distance between my living place and the campus. This causing me a great loss because it will never be easy for me to meet the lecturers face to face whenever i needed to see them for further explanation on subjects. Most of classes for distance learning program are done virtually online, causing ineffective communication and feedback between students and lecturers. I found this hard because there are huge gap between students and lecturers that making it almost impossible to achieve a good synchronous communication.
Due to covid situation now, all distance learning student need to attend online classes.This can be quite challenging for students because not all places have a good internet connection and sometime the application used can be crash. Me myself had faced this error for many times while attending classes and this cause lagging and failure in access the webex class. In addition, distance learning program mostly use asynchronous communication that result in unclear instruction given to students. Student will struggle to provide a good presentation or assignment due to this.

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ABU HURAIRAH BIN SARDUN
JK/13665/21

Hence, sometimes studies can be very hard because of the mode of the delivery itself. Therefore, the impact to the student even more from the aspect time management is time to spend to complete all the task and assignment and also time management when the classes and the work overlap. According to Gupta, Hershey and Gaur (2012), time management is a success skill that benefits students. Students who have a greater control over their tasks achieve the sense of satisfaction. Kaushar (2013) argued that good time management makes students to act accordingly. Next, the technical issue that student need to face was part of the challenges thing. Such as internet connecting and the equipment we use. The National Conference of the States Legislature (NCSL) has reported that 20% of college students in the US have issues accessing effective technology such as working laptops and reliable high speed connection to pursue their higher education online. Last, lack of self-motivation is part of the challenges thing that student need to face. For example, easy to get stress and easy to felt down and give up. According to the NASFAA article show the survey has been taking and the result shown 76% of undergraduates and 56% of graduate and professional students pointed to low motivation as their biggest obstacle to online learning success. This lack of motivation stems directly from many other challenges that online students face.

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GANESAN S/O RAMACHANDERAN
JK/13694/21

Classes are conducted virtually and students learn from workplace, home or any convenient environment. There are many chances of diverge to other activities during the class hours. For instance, social media, children at home and sound at home or office can be disruptive and tend to loss focus on the course being lectured by the lecturer. It reduces the effectiveness of distance learning. Thus, distractions from the surroundings inclusive in the challenges face by myself.

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PRACTICE 8 - SUPPORTING DETAILS : CHALLENGES I FACE AS A DISTANCE LEARNING STUDENT

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Assalamualaikum Dr. Lin & have a good day.

For example, in March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has become a global health issue and has had a major impact on education. The COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption of education systems in human history, affecting nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 200 countries. Closures of schools, institutions and other learning spaces have impacted more than 94% of the world’s student population.

The online learning, distance and continuing education have become a panacea for this unprecedented global pandemic, despite the challenges posed to both educators and the learners. Transitioning from traditional face-to-face learning to online learning can be an entirely different experience for the learners and the educators, which they must adapt to with little or no other alternatives available.

Thank You.
NOORHAYATI BEKRI @ MOHD BAKERI
JK/13813/21

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JK/13827/21

As we known COVID-19 pandemic took the world by surprise. Globally, everything has stopped. Projects have been delayed, workplaces closed and schools shut down. The world seems to have ground to a halt because of the novel coronavirus.

Being a student during the pandemic is very difficult. The situation has escalated as there are less opportunity for meeting with classmates and lecturers as social distancing is highly required to prevent the spread of the Covid 19 virus. The increasing amount of work commitment during the pandemic also makes it more difficult. Intensive courses with packed schedule also makes it difficult for a distant learner like myself.  The courses takes long periods of time and makes it difficult to take leave for studying.

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WE/JK/166/21 - Zuraini M. Zain

A study showed that most of distance learning education students had trouble managing a well-balanced schedule. Hardy and Boaz (1997) states that "distance learning requires students to be more focused, better time managers and to be able to work independently..."

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Siti maliza binti abd Malik
JM/13814/21

Nowadays I as a long distance student and also a teacher I had to face the challenge everyday such as wake up early and slept very late everyday. The time management in my daily life is very important because of 24 hours is not enough to do all my daily routine . Early in the morning I will be at the school 8 am to prepare for my student came and teach until 5pm so after I came back there will be a few hours to do my assignment and spend some times with my family .

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As a working adult, time must be equally share to my boss, my students, my family, my pets, revisions, assignments and as well myself. With the same amount of hours we have in a day, it is good if we could divide our time wisely so that we could achieve what we want and of course we are not wasting of a day on our life.

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ANGELA SEMA JIMIE
JG/12197/21

So to achieve my dreams, I need to face every challenges in life. To get my degrees, I need to sacrifice something. For example, less time with my family and accept higher tension at work. That's why as a student, I need to discipline my self to manage my timing for everything. So that I can have a balance life. Its all for my own future, family and career in a same time.

As we know, our economy drops due to the pandemic that spreads through the world. Its effect so many things and people. Some can still survive but some need to work harder to maintain back their daily income. In life, everyone had their own ups and down.

Few months before I start my distance learning, my laptop breakdown and need to be repair. I had to find a solution either to buy new laptop or repair my old laptop.

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UMMI HAFIZAH BINTI IZHAR
(JM/13780/21)

In addition, in whatever we do there is always challenges and obstacle to deal with. Challenges are meant to make us stronger not to weaken us. Challenges such as assignments could be hard for us to cope but within time everything will be easier and we will be grateful for the test that befalls us. To cope with the challenges we need to be prepared mentally and physically. Not just that, we also need to ensure that we know how to work smart and manage things properly.

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SIM YON MIN
JP/11132/21

Hello to Dr and my fellow friends.

IDEA 1: TIME MANAGEMENT
As a distance learning student, it is critical to be able to manage the time effectively.  It is due to difficulties of balancing the time of school and work when they are adjusting to a virtual classes.

IDEA 2: STRESS MANAGEMENT
One of the massive consequence of distance learning is how it has impacted the mental health of student. Anxiety and mental health  issues can also have an impact on entire families. They may act out, schedule themselves and not communicate with families as much. They will also spending several extra hours on screen for the meetings. Excessive time on screens has been linked to anxiety and depressions.

IDEA 3: CONNECTIONS OF LECTURER AND COURSEMATE
Distance learning is the student separated from lecturer and peers. It is much more difficult to lecturer to reach out their students if they are having trouble , and they have to deal with bugs in online learning systems as well. Because of this, many students feel left behind.

IDEA 4:CONFUSION
If distance learning student is not able to deal with their mental health problems, they will struggling and unable to continue surviving and succeeding through the foreseeable future. They will start confusing and worrying about their current situation and their futures.

Lastly, thank you.

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KAHVISHA A/P JOTHY

(JG/12232/21)

Hello everyone,

Biggest challenge i faced is time management, due to working in manufacturing field, i had no time to cope with work and studies. Moreover I had to work extra an hour on weekdays to replace my leave on Saturday for classes. As full time working adult, I’m finding hard challenges to have balance time with studies and work time. No matter what around me, i will focus my studies and get the best result for this semester. Thank you.

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Chin Hooi Yah JP/11105/21

The biggest challenge I faced on distance learning is time management. As a full-time working adult and a parent, is a huge challenge to find a balance between work, study, and family.  I need a good planning and management of time to ensure that I allocate an adequate time spent with my kid while meeting the work project and study assignments at the same time.
Another difficulty in distance learning is motivation. Without direct interaction with professors and classmates, it is easy for distance learner to feel isolated and demotivated, especially at the point of time when I need guidance and assistance in my study and assignment.

Distance learning does not have a proper learning environment as a campus can provide. I need to seek and create a good learning environment at home so that I can have a full concertation during the Webex session.
Finally, support from family and workplace is another barrier for me in distance learning. Gaining their understanding and support is important especially when I need to be away from work and home during the intensive weeks.

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ARJUNA SHAH BIN AMER
JK/13677/21

Anyway, i will facing all the problem and the challenge, and i don’t want all the challenge will be my barrier to get a degree. I will try my best to manage my time so that I can be a proud father to my three daughter and wife.

No matter what happens I will try and do my best to get a good results and to be graduated and also want to complete my study as soon as possible

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SHARMEENDRA VANORA A/P SARAVANAN GERALD
JG/12375/21
Good day to all of you,
In order to cope with both studies and life responsibilities is multitasking simultaneously. There are two factors which definitely challenged me as a distance learning student.

The first factor is time management. As a student , i should able to schedule time accordingly. This is mainly because, i need to spend time with my loved ones but due to the time constrain i have to limit those time. A higher commitment and disciplinary is needed in order to allocate timing for virtual classes, group discussion and completing assignment.

Secondly, network issue is one of the most common issues faced by students. Furthermore, distance learning student usually needs to look for good network coverage in order to successfully complete the task and assignment given. A low network coverage or data plan or a  broken device  can be the main reason for students to face issues on technical issues.

thank you

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MUHAMMAD HAFIZ BIN AZHAR
JG/12001/21

Hello every one,

The first factor is that self -quality requires willingness and sacrifice after entering a new world in the life of a student. This is because being a student has given me a new responsibility, an additional burden from the existing burden.

Second, for me as a family, my time is very limited. Yet I have to wisely divide my time and organize your daily schedule.

Third, my work constraints and commitment are increasing but I have to commit to my studies and have to give my full commitment to assignments, tests and exams.

Thank you.

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NORASHIKIN BINTI ISMAIL
JK/14030/21

1) Of course me as a mother, wife and worker has trouble dividing my time well when decided to be a student again. There will definitely have times that stressful when my time management is not properly done. Thinking of the workload in the office, already makes me feel discouraged.  It is not easy to divide the time equally especially when most of the time is erratic.

2) The next challenge is in completing assignments in groups. First, I need to find the best team among USM distance learners to ensure that the assignment is completed successfully. Second, it is difficult to find a suitable time to discuss group assignments given since everyone's is working. Third, not all of team members agreed with the topic selection. Same goes with task breakdown.

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JG/11901/21
Challenges i face as a distance learning student is time management. We must spend more time to do revision and we need  to focus our work and study. So i want to do a timetable to distribute all subject. Moreover,technical issues range from a low internet connection to broken hardware parts and faulty software. Plenty of technical problems arise from a lack of understanding of technology and computer applications. In addition, Internet speed plays a significant role in how quickly you attend classes. Therefore, having a high-speed internet connection is suitable for an effective, efficient, and flawless online learning experience.

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By opting for studying while holding another equally crucial role such as being a mother or a full-time employee, students in need of restructure their 24-hours without affecting performance of other commitments. In parallel world, they might have circumscribed time allocated for studies, yet must complete the syllabus just as full-time students.