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Firstly, the learning institutions should conduct physical classes instead of continuing

remote/online learning as it can affect the health of the students. This way will make the
student more suffer to attend the online class. One of the reasons that could develop health’s
problem is the posture of student when using the electronic devices. They would need to use
the electronic device such as laptop or Smartphone to attend the classes. So mostly, when
they used the device, they will have different posture to make their body comfortable when
using it. However, they will not realised either their posture is correct or wrong. If their
posture is wrong, they could develop the pain from their body. According to Yu, James,
Edwards and Snodgrass (2017), “Poor posture during computer use is a likely contributor to
altered muscle activation patterns contributing to neck and shoulder pain”. Also, if the
student uses the Smartphone or tablet, they will tend to get hurt more compare to computer.
As the Yu, James, Edwards and Snodgrass (2017) say that, “Tablet use likely results in
different postural changes compared to laptop computer use. Indeed, increased neck flexion
has been demonstrated with tablet use as well as increased wrist flexion”. The student will
spend hourly using the electronic device for online learning. So it will increase the chance for
student to develop the neck pain.

From bad posture also, it could affect the genital system of male student. This happen
because they usually put the laptop on their lap. As Shamsa Ali (2013) state that sperm that
located at the scrotum part of male body require cooler temperature. So, when they put laptop
on their lap, the heat radiation from the laptop will directly expose to scrotum. Based on
Shamsa Ali (2013) state, the heat radiation from a laptop can reach up to 700 degree Celsius.
This situation can damage the sperm and will lead to infertility. Also, according to the
Shamsa Ali (2013), this heat radiation can causes Toasted Skin Syndrome which is a
permanent discolouration of skin that can lead to skin cancer. So the students need to know
the correct way of their posture when using electronic device for the online class. This is
because, when the online class take too long to end, it will increase the possibility for the
student to get healthy problem.

Other than that, online learning also could affect the mental health of student. As the
students are learning their course through online, they find it hard for them to understand with
a few material uploaded by their teacher. Based on Ali Erarslan & Abdullah Arslan (2020) ,“My
teachers prefer to upload articles mostly, but when I do not listen to or watch someone
explaining the content, I feel stressed and unable to learn.” . So, they could get headache
because they are not learning anything from the course. They have to waste their time to
search other material. Plus the teacher are tend to give overwhelming assignments, project and
quiz but do not consider the credit workload taken by the students. They will have no time to
rest because they need to catch up with the submission dateline. The student will feel burdened
with not understanding the problem and heavy workload from their courses. This situation
could make the student feel stress and will have not motivate to study. They will easily be
distracted when game and other entertainment when they in this situation.

To conclude, when conducting online class, it will become problematic to student in


term of health. They could easily get problem in physical or mental health. So the institution
should make sure that the student knows the correct posture when handling the electronic
device. Plus, they have to take care about the student emotion when conducting the online class
by doing survey and make a solution to solve the problem that student face it.

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