Abstract
This paper investigated the utilization of e-resources for teaching and learning of physical and health education courses in colleges of education Oyo. The instrument for data collection was a self-developed questionnaire with the modified five points Likert scale. The instrument has three scales with reliability value obtained through Cronbach alpha of 0.82 for Awareness of E-Resources Utilization Scale (AWERUS), 0.80 for Accessibility of E-Resources Scale (AERUS), and 0.69 for Usability of E-Resources Utilization Scale (UERS) through Cronbach alpha statistical tool while the instrument has six (6) items each. The demographic data of the respondents were analyzed with frequency counts and percentages while an inferential statistic of chi-square was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. The finding revealed that awareness, accessibility and usability of electronic resources significantly influence their utilization. Based on the findings the following recommendations were made; That the College management should embark on sensitization and publicity drives by giving more education to both staff and students on the available electronic information resources within the College. That both Academic staff and students be trained with ICT knowledge so as to be ICT compliant and utilize more e-resources.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0980/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
Highlights
Electronic resources are products of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) which has greatly impacted positively in the area of research as well as for effective teaching and learning
An electronic resource requires computer access or any electronic product that delivers a collection of data, be it text referring to full-text bases, electronic journals, image collections, other multimedia products and numerical, graphical or time-based, as a commercially available title that has been published with an aim to being marketed
Section A based on demographic data of the respondents, while section B was structured in line with the independent variables of utilization as well as the dependent variable of teaching and learning with the modified five points Likert scale of summative rating to show the extent of agreement or disagreement viz: Strongly Agree (SA), Agree (A), Undecided (U) Disagree (D) and Strongly Disagree (SD) with 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 values respectively
Summary
Electronic resources are products of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) which has greatly impacted positively in the area of research as well as for effective teaching and learning. An electronic resource requires computer access or any electronic product that delivers a collection of data, be it text referring to full-text bases, electronic journals, image collections, other multimedia products and numerical, graphical or time-based, as a commercially available title that has been published with an aim to being marketed. These are more useful due to inherent capabilities for manipulation and searching, providing information access is cheaper to acquiring information resources, savings in storage and maintenance, etc. E-resources are used to supplement printed resources as they can be accessed remotely without a physical presence in the College library building and are becoming popular with students and academics. Thanuskodi’s (2012) study on e-resource usage by students has revealed that e-resources supplement printed resources but because they can be accessed remotely without a physical presence in the academic library, they are popular with students and are seen as disseminated data for research
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