Browsing by Author "Kamal Tunde Omopupa"

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    A Study of Users' Delinquency at the Oyo State Library Board Headquarters, Dugbe, Ibadan
    (Informa UK Limited, 2011-07) Abdulwahab Olanrewaju Issa; Kamal Tunde Omopupa; Abdullateef Lanre M'Bashir; Esther Uche Njoku
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    Adoption and Use of Social Media for Teaching and Learning in Two Universities in North Central Nigeria
    (Afr. J. MIS,, 2020-04) Shakirat Oluwatosin Haroon-Sulyman; Olajumoke Janet Olanipekun; Kehinde Kadijat Kadiri; Kamal Tunde Omopupa
    This study investigates the use of social media for teaching and learning among the lecturers and students at the University of Ilorin and Al-Hikmah University in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. The study was aimed at examining the adoption of social media for teaching and learning among lecturers and students’ respectively. A total of 430 respondents comprising of both lecturers and students were analyzed using frequency counts and simple percentages. The findings from the study revealed that social media can be adopted and used for lessons. Also, lecturers and students assent that social media can be used to achieve better results if integrated into lessons. However, the results showed that WhatsApp is the most used and most reliable tool for teaching and learning by lecturers and students of the University of Ilorin and Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin. It is thereby recommended that apart from WhatsApp, the lecturers and students of the University of Ilorin, Al-Hikmah University, and other institutions are requested to adopt other social media such as Google+, Skype and YouTube as an educational tool to facilitate the teaching and learning process to achieve better results in their academics. Keywords: Social media, Adoption, Use, Teaching, Learning, Universities
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    Influence of smartphone usage on academic performance of students in the Faculty of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
    (Journal of Library Services and Technologies, 2019) Kamal Tunde Omopupa; Abdulrasaq Abdulrauf; Ahmed Usman Abdulsalam; Hajarat Abubakar; Kabir Alabi Sulaiman
    Abstract The study investigated the influence of smartphone usage on academic performance students in the five departments of the Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. The study was guided by five research objectives and descriptive survey design using questionnaire for data collection. Through convenient sampling techniqes to select 315 respondents for inclusion in the study. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22 was used to analysed the data collected with descriptive statistics. Results from the data collected revealed that a majority the respondents were femaless while 60.1% were in the age range of 20-24; that 68.4%of the respondents used Techno smartphone, 88.4% of the respondents agreed that the use of smartphone enhanced academic performance, 76.4% of the respondents indicated that smartphone usage lead to fatigue and sleeplessness, though 80.1% of the respondents agreed that change in the attitudinal behaviour is the solution to the problem of use of smartphone among students. Finally the study recommended among others that the university authority should address the issue of inadequate power supply on campus and monitor the use of smartphones for enhanced academic performance among students in the Faculty of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Ilorin. .Keywords: Academic performance, Communication and information science, Library and information science, Perceived influence of smartphone, Smartphones and academic performance, Students, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
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    Moving from OPAC to Discovery Systems: Nigerian Librarians’ Perceived Knowledge and Readiness
    (Informa UK Limited, 2020-01-25) Ismail Olatunji Adeyemi; Kamal Tunde Omopupa
    The recent trend of move from OPAC to discovery system has not been observed in Nigeria. Hence, this study examined Nigerian librarians’ perceived knowledge and readiness to move from OPAC to discovery system. The study adopts mixed method research approach. The study found that Nigerian librarians are not ready to move from OPAC to library discovery system in the nearest future. It was also shown that there is little or no knowledge of library discovery system among Nigerian librarians. The study concludes that Nigerian librarians are not ready nor have knowledge of moving from OPAC to library discovery system