When the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, online learning became the worldwide trend in the delivery of instruction in all levels of education. In the Philippines, higher education institutions fully embraced online learning to provide provisional continuity for tertiary education. One of these institutions is De La Salle University-Dasmariñas that even adopted a care-centered model for its flexible learning modality, which tries to put balance in the learning conditions of the students and their overall well-being while studying at home. To ensure that this is realized, this quantitative research was initiated with the primary intention of exploring the academic, psychological-emotional, and physical conditions of the pre-service teachers during online learning. Whereas, an agreeable statistical mean was revealed for the academic condition of learning (x¯=3.70), the psychological-emotional (x¯=3.19) and physical conditions (x¯=2.72) of the respondents have only shown neutral or in-between level of agreement. For the significance of difference, ANOVA test statistics disclosed that the program and year level of the respondents are causal factors in their varying learning conditions with p-values less than .05 (p<.05). Nevertheless, no significant differences were noted (p>.05) when the general learning conditions of pre-service teachers were grouped according to sex, birth order, and income group. With these results, it is hoped that the study may serve as bases for the improvement of the existing college policies especially the ones related to online teaching and learning.
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