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COVID-19 pandemic has forced schools and academic institutions all over the world to shift to remote online learning overnight. This is the longest disruption to the traditional face-to-face (physical) classroom learning ever. As the shift was unexpected, many stakeholders including teachers, administrators, parents and the students themselves have to embrace the Sudden Screen Learning (SSL) with or without sufficient resources, strategy and plans. As a result of social distancing in order to curb the spread of the pandemic, some students struggled to catch up with online learning challenges as family incomes deteriorated. This research intended to investigate the factors that push private university students to accept and adopt the sudden, remote online learning by applying the UTAUT constructs namely Performance Expectancy (PE), Effort Expectancy (EE), Subjective Norms (SN) and Facilitating Conditions (FC), taking into account the students’ Learning Styles as well as the moderating effect of Trusting Beliefs. The expected outcomes of the research will provide useful insights to the school administrators and regulators in understanding students’ SSL actual usage behaviour, thus, devising effective e-curriculums that will adhere to the same or even better quality of education as an assurance to the future of the younger generations.

Digital currency or cryptocurrency, the latest development in investment is a virtual medium to purchase and sell goods and services, plays the role of a diversification tool, and features an attractive, alternative store of value. Recently, the Malaysian regulators were urged to legalise cryptocurrency as it is very attractive to young investors. Despite the overwhelming interests among young investors, they have held their interests over cryptocurrency due to the fear of the unknown and a few of its vague areas. This research is undertaken to explore the cryptocurrency interest and awareness among undergraduate university students as potential future cryptocurrency investors. As of to date, 116 students have participated in data collection and at this stage, the preliminary findings will be reported. About 78% of the young respondents admitted that they had little or no knowledge of the virtual currency. This research contributed in exploring cryptocurrency's value and risk from users' perspectives in a developing country setting such as Malaysia. This might shed new lights in raising awareness among the youth while managing cryptocurrency developments by regulators. More future research should be undertaken to assess the behavioural traits of the cryptocurrency providers, players as well as the societal acceptance of it.

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