ACCESSIBILITY AND THE UTILIZATION OF ONLINE TOOLS FOR LEARNING AMONG UNDERGRADUATES OF NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY IN SOUTH-WEST, NIGERIA
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2019
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The Association for Innovative Technology Integration in Education
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Online learning tools refer to any program, app, or technology that can be accessed via an Internet connection and enhance a teacher's ability to present information and a student's ability to access that information. To be successful in a distance education environment, distance education students must use online learning tools in their day to day learning activities. This study examined the accessibility and the utilization of online tools for learning among undergraduates of National Open University in South-west, Nigeria. The study was limited to NOUN undergraduates in South-west, Nigeria. A total of 294 undergraduates were sampled in Lagos and Ibadan NOUN study centres. A researcher-designed questionnaire with reliability coefficient of 0.84 was employed. Mean and standard deviation values were used to answer research questions, while t-test was used to test the hypothesis at 0.0.5 level of significance. Findings of this study revealed that few online tools were accessible for learning by NOUN undergraduate, online tools were sparsely utilized for learning by NOUN undergraduates, there was no significant difference between male and female undergraduates in the utilization of online tools for learning. The study concluded that only few online tools were accessible for learning but they were utilized by the undergraduates. It was therefore recommended among others that trainings and workshops should be organised for students on the benefits and use of online tools for learning.
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ACCESSIBILITY, UTILIZATION, ONLINE TOOLS, LEARNING
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3. Femi Augustine OWONONI, Kehinde Muritala NUHU, Nafisat A. ADEDOKUN-SHITTU & Abdul Jaleel Kehinde SHITTU. (2019): Accessibility and the Utilization of Online Tools for Learning among Undergraduates of National Open University in South-West, Nigeria International Journal for Innovative Technology Integration in Education.: Published by Association for Innovative Technology Integration in Education (AITIE). Available online at https://ijitie.aitie.org.ng/index.php/ijitie/article/view/93/48