The Effectiveness of Current

Learning Strategies to the Grade 12

HUMSS in Samar Colleges Inc.
I. INTRODUCTION

As the pandemic showed no sign of stopping, alternative

ways of coping with the situation resurface one after
another. One of them are the new distance learning
strategies; the online, blended and modular learning,
developed by the sector of education to stop the request of
the masses to cancel the education schooling. Fearing that
the time is going to be wasted, they created this massive
masterpiece, not just for the sake of the students but also for
the teachers to resume their jobs.
But the mouth of the public cannot be stopped, questions
regarding the new modalities rises up as they inquired about
its effectiveness to the student’s knowledge and whether it is
indeed helpful during this situation. Their opinions
regarding this matter can be appraise as a future base to
fully consider the matter of stopping the education, as their
say can convince the majority, provided with sufficient
evidence that these learning modes are not helpful and is
just a waste of effort.
Conventional campus-based universities struggle to build
and/or expand sustainable distance learning provision
( Lentell, 2005).Distance delivery can have a very positive
impact on recruitment but that the quality of the students’
experience depends upon the capacity of the organization to
support course development and delivery (Duranton, 2012).
“Online learning occurs in response to distance education”
(Malithong, 2005: 203).
Many higher education institutions are seeing the move on
to e-Learning that had saved cost by merging traditional
courses with online learning innovations (Selim, 2005;
Rudes-tam & Schoenholtz, 2010: 370). It will be
interesting to see how the increased use of online learning
will fully affect distance education enrollments in
institutions (Ba tes, 20 05: 13-1).
With varying sides to this matter, this study was conducted to
fully see the effectiveness of this new learning strategies and
to deliver a first-hand information to the public. To fully pry
informations regarding this matter, this study conducted an
in-depth interview to the students of Grade 12 HUMSS of
Samar College Inc. as they have already experience a full
year using these new modalities and have the sufficient
knowledge to fully answer our questions. As the pandemic is
still raging, a face to face confrontation is not possible, thus
an alternative way was used, we performed the interview in
an online app called “Messenger”.
Unsurprisingly, their responses and reviews are also divided
into two factions, the positive and negative sides. Thus, this
study can be seen as a reference for the teachers to combine
new ways of providing knowledge while using these new
modalities as these modes are also helpful to the students in
some ways, this study can also act as a base for future
researchers to help them in providing explanations when
encountering a similar situation.