The Moderating Role of Motivation on Hybrid Learning Towards Accounting Undergraduates’ Resilience in Perak: Post COVID-19 Scenario
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https://doi.org/10.37134/ibej.Vol17.1.2.2024Keywords:
Hybrid Learning, Resilience, Accounting, Motivation, Post COVID-19Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the education landscape for accounting programs among higher education institutions in Malaysia. Due to the abrupt changes, undergraduates face challenges adapting to hybrid learning. Hence, this study aims to examine the moderating effect of motivation on hybrid learning towards accounting undergraduates’ resilience during the post-Covid-19 situation in Perak. The Resilience theory is used to explain how accounting students develop resilience during the post-Covid-19 through intrinsic (self-efficacy and emotional ability) and extrinsic factors (support systems and peer systems) that enhance students’ resilience. Therefore, 200 survey questionnaires were collected among accounting undergraduates from Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Kampar Campus and Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), Tanjung Malim and analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Results showed that self-efficacy and emotional ability have a significant relationship towards hybrid learning and the absence of interaction effects was evidenced for extrinsic factors and motivation. Thus, it is proven that through resilience theory, undergraduates’ intrinsic values increased the level of interest in hybrid learning without the presence of the motivation factor during post Covid-19 scenario. Higher education institutions should enhance further the constructive and effective methods of hybrid learning in order to motivate learning centric among undergraduates.
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