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University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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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.

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Internet network, mobile phones, university demand, university access

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