Exploring the advantages of using home-based learning in Malaysian during the COVID-19.

Abstract

At the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak affected the whole world. It has caused many problems and affected numerous sectors. The education sector encountered a profound impact on student learning progress during the outbreak. Since face-to-face learning could not be carried out, the Ministry of Education Malaysia (MOE) launched a new online learning programme so that students would not fall behind. The programmes were classified (HBL) for primary and secondary school students and the open distance learning (ODL) for students in higher institutions. Therefore, this study was conducted to explore the advantages of online HBL based on the findings of previous studies. The findings showed that there are eight advantages of online HBL. Overall, online HBL helped Malaysia keep pace with developed countries that follow the trend of modernisation.