Original Research Article
Year: 2019 | Month: October-December | Volume: 4 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 23-30
Perception of Nursing Students Towards Online Learning: A case Study of Lautech Open and Distance Learning Centre, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria
Oyewumi Zaccheus Opeyemi1, Adedoyin Adeoye Adeyemi2, Taiwo Diekolola Olajuwon3, Oladotun Nike Oloruntosin4, Busari Saheed Oladeji5
1LAUTECH Open and Distance Learning Centre, Oyo State, Nigeria, 2LAUTECH Open and Distance Learning Centre, Oyo State, Nigeria, 3LAUTECH Open and Distance Learning Centre, Oyo State, Nigeria, 4LAUTECH Open and Distance Learning Centre, Oyo State, Nigeria, 5LAUTECH Open and Distance Learning Centre, Oyo State, Nigeria.
ABSTRACT
Getting quality University Education by Nigeria Nurses has over the year become a growing concern to all and sundry. While many Nurses found it difficult to actualize their dream of this higher education through face-to-face mode, online learning in institutions of higher education has come to be the preferred option. However, concerns about the quality of online nursing education have been on the increase. Meanwhile, this study investigates the perception of nursing students in Lautech Open and Distance Learning Centre towards Online Learning. A descriptive cross-sectional survey design was adopted to investigate the perception of nursing students toward online education in LAUTECH Open and Distance Learning Centre (LODLC), Ogbomoso, Oyo State. Considering the number of nursing students in LODLC, random sampling technique was used to select three hundred and fifty six (356) respondents from 200 Level to 500Level during their face to face facilitation in the centre out of which three hundred and forty one (341) questionnaires were retrieved. Meanwhile, 36 LODLC students in accounting, marketing and computer science were used for pilot study. The finding revealed that the difference between the perceived ease of use of e-learning platform and the students perception of it was not significant (t=1.81, df=49, P>0.001, two tailed). Also in one of the questions asked about perceived ease of use of E-learning platform, almost all the respondents (99.4%) agreed that E-learning is user friendly, 92.6% agreed that it is easier to become skillful with E-learning while 91.7% agreed that learners population does not affect learning. It was concluded that increased interest of registered nurses in e-learning and it growing acceptability by the nursing community has increased the number of applicants into the online nursing education of the university. The adoption of both synchronous and asynchronous mode of learning to run e-learning university education couple with the introduction of few numbers of face-to-face contacts have made the program so impactful with little or no difference from the traditional mode of learning.
Key words: Perception, Nursing Students, Online Learning.