The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly disrupted teaching and learning in higher education globally. The purposes of this study are to identify the demographics and contextual challenges of emergency ICT-enabled education related to the future preferred mode of education of instructors and suggest a transition from emergency ICT-enabled education to blended education for future emergency preparedness and sustainability.
This quantitative, cross-sectional and correlational study administered an online survey using a structured questionnaire to collect data from 162 respondents during the closure of Malaysian higher education institutions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences.
This study found that 56% of the respondents preferred blended education in the future. Multiple discriminant analysis generated characteristic profiles of respondents who preferred conventional face-to-face education, online education and blended education in the future in terms of their demographic characteristics and salient contextual challenges.
This study is exploratory. The findings are not generalisable and the contextual challenges of emergency ICT-enabled education may evolve over time.
This study extends the existing literature by highlighting future preferred modes of education of instructors and suggests a resilience pedagogy of blended education for future emergency preparedness and sustainability.
