Impact and challenges of online learning application platforms for sustaining teaching and learning during covid-19 lockdown in Nigeria
Abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges requiring teachers and students to adapt to
online teaching and learning, because schools were closed by governments all over the world in order to
contain the spread of the virus. However, despite the advantages of continued teaching and learning during
the COVID-19 lockdown, learning online is not without its attendant problems. This study sought to
investigate the impact and challenges of the online application platforms for sustaining teaching and
learning during the COVID-19 lockdown. Data was collected using a structured interview conducted on
students of Al-Qalam University Katsina, who participated in the online learning to ascertain the impact and
challenges they experienced during the process. The results of the study showed that majority of the
participants agreed that online learning platforms help in sustaining lectures during the lockdown, but they
prefer the traditional classroom teaching. The study identified some of the challenges for the online
learning to include lack of access to fast internet service, ownership of digital devices among students, poor
electricity. The study recommends that schools and the government need to invest in ICT since the lack of
interest by the students might not be unconnected with the challenges identified by the study.
Key words: COVID-19, ICT, Learning, Online, Teaching, Students
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