Online Distance Learning Barriers and Their Implication in The Delivery of Instruction in The New Normal

The Covid19 pandemic compels the country to adopt a more remote kind of learning without enough research to back it up. This resulted to unforeseen online learning barriers experienced by the students. This study investigated the relationship between online distance learning barriers and students’ perception of the delivery of instructions in the new normal. Specifically, it identified the profile of the respondents in terms of age, sex, and family monthly income, the extent of online distance learning barriers in terms of individual, technological, domestic, institutional, and community, and the level of delivery of instruction in the new normal. This study is a descriptive correlational design that utilized a survey questionnaire to gather the profile of the respondents, the extent of online learning barriers they experience, and the level of perception of the delivery of instruction in the new normal of 172 high school students. After subjecting to chi-square and Pearson r, data revealed that of all the variables involved, only family monthly income was found to have a significant relationship to online learning barriers in terms of individual and technological. In addition, family monthly income was found to have a significant relationship with the level of delivery of instructions. Finally, a negative relationship between technological and institutional barriers with the level of delivery of instructions in the new normal was also found