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Author(s)
E. J. Isuku
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DOI:10.17265/2161-623X/2018.06.004
Affiliation(s)
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) has been playing a vital role in the Open and Distance Learning
(ODL) programmes of universities in both developed and developing countries.
This is evidence in the access opportunity the learning mode has been able to provide
to millions of people all over the world. Thus, its
operation has enhanced the provision of educational services on a large scale to
a greater portion of potential learners who for obvious reasons are unable to attend
the traditional face-to-face residential schooling system. ICT uses various tools
and technologies to meet the needs of learners at any point in time. However, despite
the potential prospects and benefits associated with the use of these ICT facilities
in the ODL programme, several challenges still limit the full realisation of the
expected benefits of ICT usage in the ODL programmes of most universities in Africa.
The study investigated a total of 500 students who were purposively sampled from
year-three to year-five
across the three university centres which operates the ODL programme in Southwest Nigeria,
namely, universities of Ibadan, Ife, and Lagos, out of which 483 distributed questionnaire
instruments were retuned. The collected data were analyzed with
descriptive statistics of percentages, mean, and
standard deviation. The results show the most serious challenges facing access to
ODL programme as: unstable and epileptic power supply (28.57%), high cost of purchase
of ICT facilities (24.4%), poor Internet connectivity (21.95%), and poor mobile phone
network signal (23.4%). Moreover, the analyzed data on the benefit derived from
the use of ICT revealed a mean of 2.71. This implies that the respondents agreed
that they derived benefits from the use of ICT
facilities.
KEYWORDS
Internet network, mobile phones, university demand, university access
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