COVID-19 and tertiary students’ knowledge, usage and challenges of using online learning platforms

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dc.contributor.authorYeboah, R.
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-04T11:19:33Z
dc.date.available2024-06-04T11:19:33Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in most universities engaging in emergency online learning, which they were not adequately prepared for. The emergency nature of the learning process raises questions on how students are able to effectively engage in the process. This study explored undergraduate students from the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Ghana’s knowledge, usage and challenges of using online learning platforms during the 2019 2020 is the second semester of the academic year. The students had to complete all courses online in the middle of the semester because of the pandemic. Five hundred and thirty-eight (538) students participated in the study; a survey was used to collect data from the students. Descriptive statistics (percentages and frequencies) and inferential statistics (t-test) were used to analyse the data. The results show that not all students who took part in online learning knew about online learning platforms, indicating that students were not given the needed training before all courses were migrated to be taught online. Almost half (45%) of the students were not engaged in online platforms for learning before COVID-19, indicating engaging Online learning was a very new experience for many of the students. As a result, some students were not able to use and engage in the online platforms and a lot of them indicated they were not comfortable learning online. Access to internet data (61%), stable electricity (54%), technological equipment (47%), internet connectivity problems (77%) and geographical location (47%) did not allow some students to participate well in online learning.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2022.2135257
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/42079
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCogent Educationen_US
dc.subjecttertiary studentsen_US
dc.subjectchallengesen_US
dc.subjectonline learning platformsen_US
dc.titleCOVID-19 and tertiary students’ knowledge, usage and challenges of using online learning platformsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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