The Impact of E-Learning on Teaching and Learning in Cape Coast Polytechnic.

Abstract

E-learning is gaining some ground in Tertiary education throughout the world. The era when blackboards and chalks dominated the transmission of knowledge is quickly giving way to the era of Information Communication Technology (ICT). Despite this wide spread adoption of E-learning in tertiary education, research on E-learning implementation suggests that it has not reached its full potential. The aim is to investigate into the impact of E-learning implementation on teaching and learning in the Tertiary Education. The objectives are to identify the acceptance level of E-learning acceptance in the Tertiary Education; to find out the perception of academic staff and students on E-learning; to identify the main barriers to the implementation of E-learning in the Tertiary Education and to identify the impact of e-learning on teaching and learning in Tertiary Education. Convenience sampling was used in selecting the student’s sample. The purposive sampling technique was employed to select the academic staff. A structured questionnaire was developed, pretested and administered to a sample of 306 and 36 in respect of students and lecturers respectively. Descriptive statistics was used to analyse the data. The results indicate that E-learning in the Tertiary education is still at its infant stage and that the management and lecturers have not established broader E-learning services that would trigger students to adopt e-learning as a mode of knowledge transmission.  The lack of regular electric power supply on campus, the level of computer and internet skills appear to be the major factors which are most likely impact negatively on student’s effort to adopt e-learning.

Keywords: impact; e-learning; teaching; learning; polytechnic