Perceived Impacts on Online Learning for Laboratory Courses: Basis for Integrating an Alternative Solution

As the country and the world continues to confront different issues brought about by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many sectors of society have been affected. As the lockdown started, many students and teachers experienced difficulty coping with the academic courses that have been thru a lot of adjustments. Amidst the "new normal" lifecycle of education, all the campuses in Quezon, Province implied the flexible learning new way of education. Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation has implemented flexible learning for all of its students and teachers. The study was conducted to determine the impacts of the online learning laboratory courses on criminology students which seeks to provide an alternative solution to the problems. In gathering the data, the researcher conducted a survey questionnaire via Google form. The respondents of the study were chosen through the use of simple random sampling. The needed data gathered from the respondents have been consolidated, tallied, tabulated, analyzed, and interpreted using the appropriate statistical tools and data analysis. The findings of the study show that online learning brings difficulties to students in different aspects of life, with that, the researcher crafted a development plan, to provide an alternative solution to the conclusions of the study.