Short Communication
Year: 2020 | Month: October | Volume: 7 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 95-102
Online Resources for E-Learning in Educational Institutions: A Case of COVID-19 Era
Odili, Ngozi1, Adetona, Charity Onoimiuko1, Eneh, Anthonia Ebere
1Librarian, Baze University, Abuja
2Librarian, Ambrose Alli University Library, Ekpoma, Edo State
Chief Library Officer, College of Health Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Nnewi Campus, Anambra State
Corresponding Author: Odili, Ngozi
ABSTRACT
Since the Covid 19 outbreak, there have been over 30 million cases of covid-19 infections with death rate of about 925,000 globally. This has resulted to the outright lockdown of educational institutions. This has encouraged them to switch to e-learning where students can access online resources at the comfort of their homes. With e-learning platforms such as Course Management Systems (CMS), Messenger, E-learning 2.0, Skype, Google+, MySpace, blogs, Instant Messaging (IM), Wikis, Zoom, GoogleMeet, and Hi5, online resources such as e-books, e-magazines, e-newspaper, e-audio/ e-images, e-journals, e-databases, e-conference proceedings, e-reports, e-maps, e-pictures/photographs, e-manuscripts, e-theses, e- subject guide, e-newsletters and other internet/websites can be accessed for teaching and learning. But it is regrettably that most educational institutions are not implementing nor have access to developed online resources for e-learning activities for their students. Therefore, this paper discusses online resources and e-learning in the covid 19 lockdown period; e-learning platforms that are used to access online resources for e-learning; and the challenges of online resources for e-learning during covid 19 lockdown period. The paper concludes that with the advent of the ravaging Covid 19 virus which has claimed millions of lives, provision of online resources for e-learning has been implemented to cover the gap in the delivery of educational services. Recommendations were that government should ensure the provision of workable ICT policies that will encourage the use of online resources for e-learning in her educational institutions
Keywords: Online resource, e-learning, Covid 19, lockdown period, Educational institutions
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