Review of E-Learning Environment at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
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2019-05
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University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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This study explores the policies for e-learning and examines the awareness of teaching practices
that incorporates e-learning among educational managers, librarians, teachers, IT experts and
students of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. The study
is based on a survey data extracted from the KNUST-based BSU Project. The results revealed that
84.1% of the educational managers and 87.1% of the teaching participants claimed the university
has no policy for introducing e-learning, while 63.6% of the IT experts reported otherwise. The
participants outlined a few teaching practices that involves e-learning, some of which are
frequently and others rarely utilized by teachers and IT experts. Awareness of these practices was
extremely high in the IT experts, teachers and student participants but low in the educational
managers. The findings of this study draw attention to the strengths, weaknesses and gaps in the
e-learning environment of the university.
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This article is published by University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2019 and is also available at https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/2337
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