Adoption and Use of E-learning in Nigerian Higher Institutions for Sustainable SocioEconomic Development
Adoption and Use of E-learning in Nigerian Higher Institutions for Sustainable SocioEconomic Development
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2021
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Musa, Aminu Umar
Muhammad, Jamila
Ismail, Murtala Adakawa
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Abstract
E-learning has received considerable attention from educators and researchers, but its adoption
and use in Nigerian higher education institutions are not encouraging. Several studies have
reported a variety of barriers that affect the successful implementation of e-learning, such as nonexisting operational policies, financial constraints, poor internet connectivity, and resistance. This
paper undertook an in-depth review of the literature concerning the benefits of e-learning and
barriers affecting successful e-learning implementation for sustainable socio-economic
development. The paper highlighted that in Nigerian higher education institutions, the lack of a
conceptual framework that takes into account factors that could aid in the proper implementation
of e-learning has hampered the successful adoption and use of e-learning. The study concluded
that recent developments and government awareness of the importance and relevance of ICT in
the educational sector in Nigeria have opened opportunities to adopt e-learning to deliver distance
education in order to educate the majority of its uneducated or less educated people. The paper
recommended that capacity-building activities, active partnerships, and investment in human and
infrastructural facilities remain central to harnessing and exploiting e-learning for socioeconomic development in Nigeria
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Being a Conference Paper Presented at Ahmadu Bello University Library Complex
International Conference (2021)