Flexible Learning Challenges Encountered by the Maritime Students

This research focused on the problems that maritime students face when it comes to flexible learning. Its basic purpose is to recognize the issues that occur in terms of network stability, materials, learning evaluation or assessment (test), and the effects of flexible learning on maritime students' academic performance, class interaction, and coping mechanisms. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, overcoming the challenges it has posed to higher education to keep learning and teaching which is very crucial. Despite their disparate positions, this will result in synergies of action among them to co-create and evolve to meet the new standard's requirements. Since it is only limited to the challenges encountered by maritime students and their potential consequences, this study will engage in quantitative analysis and use a descriptive approach. To collect the data required for this analysis, the researchers used questionnaires as the research instrument. A maritime student, either male or female, participated in this research. Since it is only limited to the challenges faced by maritime students and their potential consequences, this study engaged in quantitative analysis and use a descriptive approach. To collect the data required for this analysis, the researchers used questionnaires as the research instrument. The research instruments was distributed to maritime students participating in flexible learning programs. Results show that the common problems encountered by the maritime students during flexible learning were unstable data/network connection, use of cellphone-only as means for attending online class, and encountering technical errors. Most maritime students dislike group studies due to a lack of internet access. The lack of interaction between maritime students and professors makes it difficult to understand lessons. The maritime students in flexible learning mostly agreed with the improvement in the flexible learning system.