Abstract:
The technological revolution has increased pressure on universities to
incorporate information, communication and technology (ICT) into teaching
and learning. One of the critical prerequisites for successful incorporation of elearning
is its acceptance by lecturers. The purpose of this paper is to
determine the perceptions of lecturers towards e-learning at the University of
Ghana. Lecturers had a more favourable attitude towards the introduction of
web-supplemented and mixed modes ofe-learning than they had regarding
web-dependent and fully online modes. Most of them were of the view that
the university was not ready for fully online programmes at the
undergraduate and graduate levels. Some of the challenges identified which
could affect e-learning were the relatively low bandwidth which made the
internet slow and unreliable, and the low level of participation in training in
the use of open source platforms. It is recommended that the training of
faculty in the use of learning management platforms should be intensified