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When the COVID-19 pandemic began, many people particularly students, were affected. It created an impact on students’ learning, and the methods they engaged with depended on digital learning and distance learning courses.
Consequently, coping with this new normal system of education, became tough for everyone. Luckily, the majority of our country's areas are now on IATF Alert Leve 1 thus, students have resumed to face-to-face classes.
Despite of the COVID-19 cases increasing on a daily, some universities including the Adamson University are turning to constrained face-to-face classes, which encourages students to meet their peers and professors.
Students can learn more in face-to-face classes than they do in online even modular classes. Nevertheless, COVID-19 is not completely gone; it still does exist, people! We’d still need to be extra cautious in face-to-face classes.
Months ago, many students have dealt issues with overall mental health. As a result, when we're learning and creating relationships and bonds with colleagues, we must be in the right environment.
Unfortunately, some students, particularly their own parents, remain concerned about the limited face-to-face classes. They are anxious that their children might come in contact with the disease, since it is proliferated. Specifically because we can't also see it, frightening them about the virus that might affect their child.
But even so, Adamson University has stated that in the upcoming school year (2022–2023), it might be employing a physical and flexible learning modality called "PhysiFlex," which is intended to integrate physical and digital learning.
Due to the excessive blend of learning, students have the opportunity to socialize with fellow klasmaytes and professors on an individual basis. This would alleviate anxiousness and discomfort. As a result, this would be considered to be good news since everyone misses the university's campus life.
According to Dr. Catherine Q. Castaneda, Vice President for Academic Affairs, “ [ It is ] Indicated in a memorandum dated April 6 that Adamson University would utilize a blended learning style. "PhysiFlex" a modified approach to flexible education combining face-to-face dialogue as its major learning modality with a blend of physical and digital learning”.
Dr. Castaneda wrote. “The sentiment also indicated that the new instructional mode's guidelines would be issued soon.”
But even beforehand, limited face-to-face classes at Adamson University have already started. It was solely specific for the Computer Engineering program who’d require using the School Laboratories.
Alongside with that are the 3rd and 4th year students, who’d also be graduating this current school year.
In accordance with CHED Chairman, Prospero De Vera III, he stated that many of the University here in the Philippines will very much likely to resume face-to-face classes for next school year, and the decision is based on the consultation with their respective faculty and their students itself.
We can see that it will progressively rise, and that there will undoubtedly be even more when the first semester of the School Year 2022-2023 began.
De Vera noted that 100% class capacity has been authorized in places under Alert Level 1, allowing 100% classroom capacity will encourage more Higher Education Institutions (HEIS) to conduct face-to-face classes since it will enable them efficiently manage their facilities and oversee regular classes.
As importantly, the most essential things are each other's safety and personal well-being, we must constantly follow health protocols and risk having our lives in danger.
Physical and mental health should now prevail over education as a top priority. “PhysiFlex” would be an excellent stepping stone for any Adamsonians looking to broaden their horizons.
Cover Photo Courtesy of ABS-CBN News
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