Teachers’ perceptions towards online Quran learning

Abstract

The breaking out of Corona virus in the past years has offers Al-Quran learning become an option to switch into online class mode. Traditionally, Al-Quran learning has known to be in physical environment as the students could clearly see and feel the teacher’s reading pronunciation directly. The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore Quran teachers’ experience in conducting online Quranic class during pandemic COVID-19 as well as to examine the effectiveness of online Quran learning from students’ Quran reading performance. This study employs qualitative methods to explore Quran teachers’ experience conducting online Quranic class with the use of einterview as the data collection method. Positive and negative experiences of teachers were examined. The findings of this research revealed that accessibility, platform, student’s engagement, flexibility, learning outcome and learning system were teachers’ positive experiences. The negative experiences were caused by networking connection, commitment of students as well as technical skills required. Moreover, this study also examines students’ reading achievement score to investigate the effectiveness of online Quran learning. The results obtained from students’ reading performance rubrics indicated that most of the students’ achieved a good achievement level of reading Al-Quran. The data were analysed using descriptive analysis. The findings of this study can be used by other Quran teachers, to get insights on how far Quran teachers could benefit in conducting online Quran class in future.