Background of the study
The COVID-19 coronavirus disease has impacted people all over the world. different components
of daily habits for humans. The UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural
Organization) declaration claims that at its worst, the crisis had a significant impact on education for
almost 6 billion students across more than 190 nations. One of the areas of human existence that has
been most impacted by the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) epidemic is education. Numerous
nations have decided to temporarily close schools that serve millions of pupils since the pandemic's
emergence and threat. (Sarmiento et al., 2021) The Department of Education of the Philippine
government has developed recommendations for the implementation of online and modular distance
learning.
The government's Department of Education in the Philippines has developed guidelines to
implement online and modular delivery of instruction via distance learning. These are to protect
students from contracting the illness. However, the president approved the plans but later withdrew
them due to the threat posed by the new strain of COVID-19. The plans were to conduct a pilot
implementation of limited face-to-face delivery in low-risk areas of COVID-19 transmission for January
2021. The retardation of COVID-19 in the educational system is of great magnitude that universities
have to subsist with at the soonest possible time. The call is for higher education institutions to develop
a resilient learning system using evidence-based and needs-based information so that receptive and
pro-active measures can be establish. The educational system ought to prepare for develop plans to
move forward and discourse the new normal after the crisis. To be resilient, higher education needs to
address teaching and learning progression beyond and in the middle of pandemic.
A study by Akhter disclosed that most of distance learning educators and facilitators lacked the
skills needed to help learners upgrade their learning. This is likely to affect educators' potential to meet
students' needs and eventually have an effect on students' academic performance. The students'
adequate level of academic performance may be controlled by greater challenges with modular distance
learning as well as the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic which resulted in the overall level of selfregulated learning among the students to drop of short adjusted to high level. (Baticulon et al., 2021)
adduced, most frequently encountered were difficulty adjusting learning styles and strategies, having to
perform responsibilities at home, and poor communication between the educators and learners.
Face-to-face learning is much preferred compared to online classes learning because, as the
Stanford researchers found out, “in-person communications make our brains happier.” In a classroom
surrounding, lectors can manage their topics very well because there is no longer a need to coarctate
their topics to fit the modules. Having to go to class with a real teacher is one of the most enthusiastic
things for students compared to reading a stack of modules. Students can cope more and feel more
comfortable interacting and learning with each other in a classroom. Traditional F2F classes are still
more advantageous for learners that are not so self-reliant and deficiency of discipline in working
between the class material in the essential time frame (Arias et al., 2018)
In our research, we explained the academic effect of the crisis to the people generally in our
learners, educators and also to our government. This paper tackled about Modular Learning, because
the blended learning started there and we saw that difficulties that we have been through.
Nevertheless, we aim to focus only on the Effectiveness of Face To Face Classes, mainly to the
performance of HUMSS Students. Everybody knows that his strand is more on public speaking,
communicating, oral skills, writing, critical thinking and more. It needs to be fully performed through
face-to-face, that's why, HUMSS Student is one of the most affected learners when the crisi occurred.
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