Experience During Pandemic With Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning (ERTL)

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Assalamualaikum and Hello.

During this unfortunate event, I experienced ERTL which stand for Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning. Never ever in my wildest dream imagine that would I be attending class virtually from home. No compulsory morning showers, no 1 km walk for classes and tutorial, no queueing at printing machine for paper submission and etc. 

How convenient it may sound.

But thats not the case.

As per saying, the learning process is a test itself. 

Attending class during ERTL really just a battle against myself. 

Its all about self-discipline. 

Because being home where it is literally the most comfortable space in this world, I really cannot be bothered about school thingy. 

All this time being home means it is semester break where peace and calm lingering in daily life.

No tension, just good food and good mood.

And because of the calm feeling that often more than not taken to be granted, it is easy for me to fall into the unproductive side of me.

The biggest obstacle for me was to retain the same degree of discipline as I were in the campus, despite being comfortable and well-equipped at home. It is fairly easy to get overwhelmed while being left at home with the whole family. To add on, another problem in and of itself has been the confusion surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic whereas there were moments when enthusiasm and morale were poor. This is particularly due to the catastrophic impact and impacts that the epidemic has had on many thousands of individuals.

Most of the Google meet meetings were screen recorded and placed on Google Classroom so that it could be re-watched if anything had been missing in the live class. This somehow make the class more systematic though virtually. 

When it comes to the tests, the instructions were made very clear for all of us to understand. The tests were carried out in the form of 'take-home examinations.' 

Though it is an open book test, no discussion are allowed. 

The most drastic change is when connection with close friends all becomes assignment-based. 

I only get to contact if it is for assignment purpose, because other than that, we went our own way to release.

I do catch them outside work from time to time, but it just felt different. Nothing could tops face to face conversation, indeed.

Overall, the whole pandemic and ERTL is a totally new thing which I could never accustomed to it. Nevertheless, it proves that when there’s will there is a way. This whole quarantine exposed me to my unknown other side of me be it positive or negative.

my go-to wallpaper for 26 weeks of online class ✊🏼😔