Abstract

Covid-19 pandemic has affected teaching and learning in many perspectives. This paper is emerging conceptualisation experience on the impact of Covid-19 on teaching practice. As a conceptual paper, it discusses the qualitative method used on the study of factors influencing international master foundation level students’ online engagement and review the limitations and issues it caused; Comparing to the mix method, this paper from ontological and epistemological assumption perspectives critically reflects and analyses the effectiveness, validity, and the limitations of the qualitative method applied in the research, and thereby benefiting other studies investigate online teaching and students’ online engagement efficiency in research method application.