THE ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON E-LEARNING: A STUDY OF SELECTED TERTIARY INSTITUTION IN THE SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA

Evelyn N. O. Agbajeogu (PhD), Anthony Chukwuebuka Ibe

Abstract


Globally, the world is faced with the Covid-19 pandemic which has held the economy at ransom not exempting the educational sector. This pandemic has brought about recent changes and disruptions in the educational sector which serves as a catalyst for the development of any nation. Educational sector globally is seen to be shifting towards e-learning in order to cushion the effects of this pandemic. However, the Nigerian system of education is trying to adapt to this ‘historic change’ amidst its economic and political challenges. The Covid-19 is a pandemic which was beyond any type of natural forecasting, putting the world into a pandemonia sphere of innovation. The education system of the South East section has been used in this work as a case study, the impact of Covid-19 during and after on e-learning. This work tries to bring to bare the inadequacies of the educational system of Nigeria, learning’s/teachers and students. It equally evaluate and recommends this new system of learning in Nigeria.


Keywords


COVID-19, e-learning, Tertiary Institutions, South-East.

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