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Publication Date: 2011-Apr
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E-Learning Technologies and Adult Education in Nigeria
Oguzor, Nkasiobi Silas
Educational Research and Reviews, v6 n4 p347-349 Apr 2011
The internet has proved to be one of the greatest learning resources available in the 21st Century. Modern education is becoming progressively more dynamic. Internet has helped man to see the other part of the world at the click of a mouse. Various forms of instructional technologies such as the overhead projector, opaque projector, filmstrip and slide projectors, radio and television to mention but a few have been used as media in instructional process. In recent times, e-learning emerged as the fastest means by which one can teach and learn online. This paper explores the concept of e-learning. It outlined and discussed the needed e-learning resources for the usage of academic adult educators. Some of them are computer, compact disc, read-only-memory (CD-ROM) packages, videophone system and digital library. It enumerated the benefits of e-learning to academic adult educators such as collaborative studies, virtual library. It recommends among other things that the government of Nigeria should provide computerized/digital libraries for accessibility of information in the internet.
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Adult Education, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Influence of Technology, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Teaching Methods
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Nigeria
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