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| E-Learning and Covid-19: Challenges of Teaching Students during Covid-19 Lockdown in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions |
Okoye, Martina C.
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Abstract:
The study assessed the effectiveness of e-learning during COVID-19 lockdown in Nigerian tertiary institutions. The COVID-19 pandemic has widespread aftereffect on education systems all over the world, with Nigeria, not an exception. The lack of the requirements needed for remote education during the worldwide lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has impeded teaching and learning. In the underdeveloped world, home education worked well for a few students who had adequate resources accessible to them and were adaptable to remote learning. The population of the study comprised of all public tertiary institutions in the six (6) geopolitical zones in Nigeria. The sample size comprised of 123 undergraduate students and lecturers, respectively made up of 67 undergraduate students and 56 lecturers selected randomly from six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. The responses of the respondents were presented in Grand Mean (gx?) and Standard Deviation while ttest was used to test the hypothesis, generated at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that inadequate funding of public tertiary institutions, inadequate ICT infrastructural facilities, poor implementation of ICT policies in public tertiary institutions, high cost of ICT facilities, poor ICT literacy level of lecturers and students, unstable electricity, unstable Internet Services and inadequate man-power as challenges faced by many tertiary institutions could not switch into e-learning during the COVID-19 school lockdown period. Based on these findings, it was recommended that government and other stakeholders should provide special ICT funding for all public tertiary institutions, provide adequate ICT infrastructural facilities, subsidize ICT facilities for students and lecturers, ensure stable network services in all public tertiary institutions, and implement all ICT policies and ICT capacity development for lecturers and learners.
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