CHALLENGES OF HIGHER INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA TOWARDS DIGITAL LEARNING FOR QUALITY EDUCATION IN THE POST COVID-19 PERIOD
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Date
2022-03
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Faculty of Education, Kwara State University, Malete
Abstract
Quality education which is very important for an individual's success in life, is under
threat as a result of Covid-19 pandemic that has disrupted the academic activities owing
to its social distancing rule. Alternatively, Universities worldwide has embraced digital
learning in order to sustain the academic activities. However, Higher institutions in
Nigeria were then under lock and keys in view of poor or lack of digital learning
equipment and experts. This paper ascertains the challenges of higher institutions in
Nigeria towards digital learning for quality education in the post covid-19 Period.
Descriptive research design was used to analyze the research questions. The population
of the study comprised of all the Lecturers in Public and Private Universities in Kwara
State teaching Office Technology and Management Subjects i.e. 28 and 16 respectively.
The sample for this study comprised of 19 OTM Lecturers from Public Universities and
12 OTM Lecturers from Private University randomly selected. A self-designed
Questionnaire was administered to elicited information from the respondents. The
finding showed that there are innumerable challenges to digital learning in Nigeria due
to poor digital infrastructure, other socio-economic factors and the poor coordination of
educational sector among others. The study suggested that higher educational
institutions should provide a flexible mechanism to teach their practical and theoretical
curricula; governments must provide financial grants and pour money into higher
institutions of learning in the country for the purpose of procuring digital learning
materials among others