Factors Affecting Tourism and Hospitality Students’ Behavior and Their Adaptation Level on Online Learning Approach of LPU-Laguna

The rapid widespread of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the educational sector to shift the learning method from traditional to online approach. Within this context, this study assessed the factors that affects the behavior and adaptation level on online learning approach of tourism and hospitality students of LPU-Laguna. The descriptive method in quantitative research was used in this study and the data was collected from the 134 tourism and hospitality students of LPU-Laguna through an online self-made survey questionnaire. The findings indicate that online class have a positive effect on the students’ personality, values, attitude, and interest but there is an anxiety experienced. The factors like learning environment, resources, and teaching method manifest that they strongly agreed that these factors positively affect the students’ behavior and their adaptation level in online learning. Contrary to that, the factor amount of information negatively affects students’ behavior like preventing to make decision. Furthermore, majority of the students adapts easily with learning modalities (synchronous and asynchronous) imposed by LPU- Laguna, however, they still encounter communication problems with their instructor. In this case, intervention plan was produced from the result of the significant variables that may contribute for the successful online learning of LPU-Laguna.

Keywords – Adaptation level, Behavior, Online learning