Adoption of Online Learning in Indonesian Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This research aims to bridge the gap in the literature by investigating the factors affecting online learning adoption by the academic staff using the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model. Data were obtained through a survey of 342 lecturers at public universities in Indonesia from July to August 2021 and analyzed using a structural equation modeling approach. The results showed that social influence (β = .14, p= .02), facilitating conditions (β = .41, p< 0.001), and performance expectancy (β = .30, p< 0.01) related to behavioral intention, and behavioral intention affected lecturers’ adoption of online learning while effort expectancy (β = .03, p= .58) had no significant effect on the lecturer’s behavioral intention. Moreover, behavioral intention was observed to have mediated the effect of performance expectancy (β = .04, p= .02) and facilitating conditions (β = .06, p= .01) on the adoption of online learning but had no indirect effect on the effort expectancy (β = .01, p= .69) and social influence (β = .02, p= .08). These findings contribute to the behavioral science perspective through the application of the UTAUT model in the case of adopting online learning. Therefore, university administrators need to consider the main results when implementing online learning by focusing on the efforts to increase performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions of the educators © 2022

Rethinking density in urban planning: Policy directions in the post-COVID-19 era in Malaysia

Since the 'Coronavirus Disease 2019' (COVID-19) struck the world and Malaysia, the general attention of the media and leaders has been focused on the high population density areas that have high infection rates and deaths. This article aims to rethink population density in urban development policy, thus providing development for policy direction in the post-COVID-19 era in Malaysia. The available national development planning policies in Malaysia, i.e., the National Physical Plan and the National Urbanisation Policy, and scholarly articles related to the population density topic were investigated through a scoping literature review and a keyword analysis. The findings showed mixed results in terms of the relationship between dense areas causing higher rates of COVID-19 infection and death rates. This article argues that policies related to spatial urban planning should continuously advocate dense city planning in considering how to achieve economic, social, and environmental sustainability and human quality of life. To this extent, this article contributes to the densification topic in spatial urban planning policies in terms of their application in the post-COVID-19 era, which needs urgent direction and clarification. © 2021 by MIP.