Medical Students' Attitude towards Online Learning

The onset of pandemic (Covid-19) brought schools to a nonface-to-face learning protocol and introduced Online Learning (OL) to continue the education among students. To determine how students perceive OL in their learning, this study was conducted. This descriptive quantitative research involved the 3rd year medical students ($\mathrm{n}=117$) enrolled in Pathologic Obstetric course, AY2020-2021, who voluntarily confirmed as participants of the study. The main research instrument of this study employed the questionnaire on the Students' Attitude on Online Learning. The data obtained from this questionnaire was analyzed using the descriptive statistics through SPSS version 20. Results showed that the respondents generally agree that online learning is capable of increasing the student's interest in computers and learning. However, they think that the less face-to-face interaction might not promote social interaction and slow internet connection can significantly make online learning difficult. It was also found out that students generally disagree to the effectiveness of online learning because it is not practically economical and time-consuming, results to weak student-teacher interaction that threatens the quality of teaching-learning process in addition to its inability to ensure effectiveness of classroom work presentation. In terms of the ease in using online learning, it is observed that students in general had a negative attitude on this emphasizing that there should have been another form of learning implemented other than through computers. There is no significant difference in the attitude of the male and female respondents to online learning, except in the ability of online learning to be discouraging having slow computer and/or slow internet connection and online learning's ability to make student's become slaves to technology. These results will provide insights to educators and school administrations to introduce and implement a more visible and achievable blended learning approach, than the usual pure online learning approach.