Samuel Nariochukwu Owhondah, Ph.D Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Education, Ignatius Ajuru University Of Education, Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt.
Abstract.
The study focused on assessing the maintenance of e-learning facilities for quality University education in Rivers State. The descriptive analytic survey design was adopted. Three research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study was 245 management staff of the three public universities in Rivers State. The sample was also all the 245 management staff of the universities, which was purposefully considered manageable. The Instrument used for data collection was a self-structured questionnaire titled E-Learning Facilities Maintenance Assessment Questionnaire (EFMAQ). The instrument was validated by experts in the field while the reliability was obtained using test-retest method and adopting the Pearson product moment correlation statistic the coefficient of 0.79 was obtained. Out of the 245 copies of the EFMAQ administered, 240copies were successfully retrieved and used for analysis. The mean and standard deviation statistics were applied to answer the research questions and the t-test statistic to test hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. The results obtained indicated a good stock of e-learning facilities, low maintenance actions, and high maintenance challenges of the e-learning facilities in universities. The test of hypotheses discerned no significant relationship between each of the variables investigated. Thus, e-learning facilities had not received appropriate maintenance actions because of maintenance challenges in universities. The stock of e-learning facilities, therefore, should be complemented with appropriate maintenance actions for quality university education.
Keywords: Assessing; Maintenance; E-learning; Facilities; Quality University Education.
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