Personal e-learning Technologies Usability by Undergraduates for Learning in the University of Ilorin, Ilorin Nigeria

Abstract

 This study examined undergraduates’ usability of e- learning technologies for learning in the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. The sample of the study comprised two hundred (200) undergraduates randomly selected from five faculties in the University of Ilorin. Descriptive survey method as adopted for the study using adapted questionnaire for measuring available e- learning technologies and their usability with 15 and 20 items respectively. The data for the study were analysed using frequency count and percentage to interpret the research questions. The result of the study showed that all the respondents for the study agreed that there were elearning technologies in the University; and that 86% (172) of them maintained that the University possessed all the 15 e-learning technologies listed. Whereas, 14% (28) others attested to the University to have possessed 11 of the e-learning technologies as being available. 78% (156) of the study sample used smart phones to access e-learning and also 44% (88) of them used them to an average extent. It is therefore recommended that University authorities should encourage the undergraduates by providing opportunity for them to access and use e-learning technologies for their learning at subsidized rate and monitor this by involving lecturers to key into the technologies usability. Undergraduates should be trained and retrained periodically on how to use the technologies provided for learning in-order to develop better skills, gain competence and improve on their performance academically and otherwise