Authors :
Halla, Dangana Tizhe; Sawa, Sarah; Musa, Lazarus
Volume/Issue :
Volume 7 - 2022, Issue 2 - February
Google Scholar :
http://bitly.ws/gu88
Scribd :
https://bit.ly/3C5NQNz
DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6320128
Abstract :
In early 2019, the world was confronted by
the covid-19 pandemic which ravaged nations of the
world and crippled even first world economies. In order
to adjust to this emerging global challenge, it became
expedient to adopt a new way of living, interaction,
communication and socialization since the major means
of spread of the pandemic is from person to person. The
hitherto termed ‘new normal’ way of living has to be
adopted in all spheres of life in order to kick-start socioeconomic activities which is necessary in revamping the
economies of the world. The idea of reducing physical
contact informed this paper. The purpose of this
research is to subject students to both virtual and
physical classes and assess the impact of the two
techniques. A Technical Drawing class of 82 students
was subjected to physical and virtual classes for a
semester; topics were selected at random and taught
either physically or virtually. The physical classes are
our conventional board and marker teaching and
demonstration modules, while the virtual teaching
involved video simulations and demonstrations shared
with students through WhatsApp and Xender
applications. Seven examination questions were set for
the students to attempt any five, three of which were
from the virtual classes while four were questions
derived from physical classes. The results showed that
the percentage maximum attempt for questions derived
from the physical classes was 57.3%. On the other hand,
all the questions derived from the virtual classes had
highly appreciable percentage attempts of 98.9%, 92.7%
and 76.8 respectively. It was therefore concluded that
virtual teaching techniques can readily be integrated side
by side with our contemporary physical teaching
methods in order to improve on the quality of learning
and towards adhering to reduced physical contact, which
will alleviate the menace of covid-19 that has hitherto
became a global challenge. It was therefore
recommended among others that there is no better time
than now to adopt virtual teaching methods in order to
enhance improved quality of learning in thewake of
emerging global challenges that confront us.
Keywords :
Virtual class, physical class, global challenge, learning.
In early 2019, the world was confronted by
the covid-19 pandemic which ravaged nations of the
world and crippled even first world economies. In order
to adjust to this emerging global challenge, it became
expedient to adopt a new way of living, interaction,
communication and socialization since the major means
of spread of the pandemic is from person to person. The
hitherto termed ‘new normal’ way of living has to be
adopted in all spheres of life in order to kick-start socioeconomic activities which is necessary in revamping the
economies of the world. The idea of reducing physical
contact informed this paper. The purpose of this
research is to subject students to both virtual and
physical classes and assess the impact of the two
techniques. A Technical Drawing class of 82 students
was subjected to physical and virtual classes for a
semester; topics were selected at random and taught
either physically or virtually. The physical classes are
our conventional board and marker teaching and
demonstration modules, while the virtual teaching
involved video simulations and demonstrations shared
with students through WhatsApp and Xender
applications. Seven examination questions were set for
the students to attempt any five, three of which were
from the virtual classes while four were questions
derived from physical classes. The results showed that
the percentage maximum attempt for questions derived
from the physical classes was 57.3%. On the other hand,
all the questions derived from the virtual classes had
highly appreciable percentage attempts of 98.9%, 92.7%
and 76.8 respectively. It was therefore concluded that
virtual teaching techniques can readily be integrated side
by side with our contemporary physical teaching
methods in order to improve on the quality of learning
and towards adhering to reduced physical contact, which
will alleviate the menace of covid-19 that has hitherto
became a global challenge. It was therefore
recommended among others that there is no better time
than now to adopt virtual teaching methods in order to
enhance improved quality of learning in thewake of
emerging global challenges that confront us.
Keywords :
Virtual class, physical class, global challenge, learning.
