Perception of Maritime Students about Flexible Learning

Learning is acquiring new, or modifying and reinforcing existing, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information. Flexible Learning is a set of educational philosophies and systems, concerned with providing learners with increased choice, convenience, and personalization to suit the learner. The objective of this paper is to study the perception of maritime students about flexible learning. The researchers collected information through a questionnaire via Google to avoid direct contact with the respondents. After the questionnaires are retrieved from the 300 respondents, only 35 students were able to answer the given questionnaires. Despite the lack of data retrieved, the results were computed and analyzed by the researchers. The result of the study shows that most of the maritime students were attending online classes due to the importance of their education amidst the pandemic. Most of the respondents were experiencing trouble and challenges with regards to the internet connection and their capacity to comprehend the activities, quizzes, and examinations. Due to the lack of convenience within their area of hometown, most of the respondents struggle to cope up with flexible learning. In the results of the data gathered, there were few of the respondents who are flexible and given the opportunity to comply and cope up with the flexible learning, with this being said the different perceptions of the maritime students were known and distinguished by the researchers.