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ASSESSMENT OF THE
UTILIZATION OF ONLINE RESOURCES BY UNDERGRADUATE RADIOGRAPHY STUDENTS
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the
study
One
of the major functions of a university is conservation of existing knowledge.
The university library plays a role in this regard by ensuring that the right
information resources are acquired. The use of online resources in university
libraries is aimed at “broadening the range of available information resources
within the library and adding value to the content by making them accessible
through digital means so that students, researchers, and the entire members of
the university community can access them anytime and anywhere” (Daramola 2016:
366).
Daramola
further states that the library within the university systems provides the
infrastructures and internet facilities to enhance student’s accessibility of
online resources. The availability of online resources has changed what
students actually read and use (Renwick, 2005; Daramola, 2016). These resources
now come in different forms such as e-book, e-journal, e-dictionaries,
emagazines, online databases and internet resources.
The
University of Nigeria, Nsukka, commonly referred to as UNN, is a federal
university located in Nsukka, Enugu state, Nigeria. It was founded in 1955 and
formally opened on 7th October 1960. The University of Nigeria,
Nsukka has four campuses – Nsukka, Enugu and Ituku-Ozalla – located in Enugu
state and one in Aba, Abia state, Nigeria. As the first full-fledged indigenous
and first autonomous university in Nigeria modeled upon the American
educational system, UNN is the first land-grant university in Africa and one of
the five elite universities in the country. It has 15 faculties and 102
academic departments and offers 82 undergraduate programs and 211 postgraduate
programs. The university library provides information resources in different
formats to support the academic programmes of the university.
There
are different categories of students found in the university, they include:
diploma students, undergraduate students, graduate and post graduate (masters)
students and PhD students. This research focused on the undergraduate students.
These students need information for social and academic reasons. This
information can come from virtually anywhere – text books, media, library
catalogues, blogs, personal experiences, journals and magazine articles, expert
opinions, encyclopedias, and web pages – which provide information one
needs depending on the question one is
trying to answer. But in this research work, the researchers were primarily
interested in the information gotten from the web pages (i.e., online
information resources). The web allows one to access most types of information
on the Internet through a browser. One of the main features of the web is the
ability to quickly link to other related information. The web contains
information in a variety formats such as texts, sounds, images, and videos.
This web information is now referred to as online information resources. Online
information resources, according to Tsakonas et al (2006) are information
sources provided in electronic form, and they include resources available on the
Internet such as research guides by subject, online indexes, electronic books
and texts, electronic journals, library catalog, online reference sources,
sound recordings, and image databases.
The emergence of
online information resources has tremendously transformed information
management in university environment in Nigeria (Ani and Ahiazu, 2008). In
explaining this proposition, Ani and Ahiazu (2008) further state that some of
the university library services and operations have been automated. Many university
libraries in Nigeria are providing online reference services as well as
training users on advanced online searching. Some of these libraries are
providing services to support e-learning programmes of their parent
institutions. Besides, library resources are being expanded to include both
print and online resources to support learning, teaching and research. However,
university libraries are greatly under pressure to provide these resources to
students due to poor funding. Quite a number of initiatives are now in place in
some universities to facilitate the development, training and use of online
information resources. These initiates include the Mortenson Center for
International Library Programs acting on behalf of MacArthur Foundation to
support selected university libraries in Nigeria, the
Electronic
Information for Libraries’ Network (eiFL.Net) and the Universities’ Connect MTN
Foundation.
As
part of its corporate social responsibility, the MTN Foundation through its
Universities’ Connect Initiative built a virtual library for the University of
Nigeria, Nsukka and provided access to a number of full-text online databases.
This initiative was launched in 2006 for use by both staff and students of the
University. On its own part, the University Administration has successfully
provided a ubiquitous wireless access to internet-based resources on campus.
This means that both the virtual library and the wireless internet access on
campus are intended to increase students’ use of online resources for digital
scholarship. This study, therefore, intends to find out how the undergraduate
students use these resources in terms of the challenges of this use and then
articulate the implications of these challenges for electronic resources
development, training and use in the university.
1.2
Statement of the problem
Online
information resources are powerful teaching and learning tools in higher
education. They are efficient for activating students, and they provide tools
for life-long learning. Internet provides the platform for global information
accessibility and allows students to have access to huge amounts of information
and a number of free applications software. It enables teachers and students to
communicate through e-mail, course home pages and virtual discussion groups,
and provides opportunities for distance education in tertiary institutions.
Students can find information themselves to a larger extent than before, though
they still need their teachers’ supervision in the learning process because most
of the information resources found on the internet were not peer reviewed.
Limited
access to online information resources in this information age will greatly
affect the students in different ways. For instance, they will find it
difficult to do research and even write some of their assignments. They would
be limited to only the information their lecturers have to offer alone. And
even if they graduate, they may soon forget what they learnt because they have
not learnt how to learn i.e. they have not developed the ability for life-long
learning.
The
study by Adomi et al (2004) reveals that online information resources have not
been used extensively by undergraduate students in Nigeria. In a similar study
conducted in a typical federal university in Nigeria, Daramola (2016) found
that male students visited the e-resources more than the female students.
Furthermore, anecdotal evidence and the researchers’ personal experiences have
revealed that majority of the undergraduate students made little or no use of
electronic resources provided by the university library despite the high cost
of these resources. Generally, the attitude of the students seemed lukewarm. It
does appear that the students are having challenges with the use of online
information resources. This means that any policy or practical interventions
that aim to address this situation ought to be well informed by drawing from
empirical evidence. This paper, therefore, seeks to investigate the challenges
the undergraduate students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka are having with
the use of electronic resources so as to proffer policy and practical
interventions to improve access and use of these resources which the university
library provides.
1.3Objectives of the
study
1. To
understand the impact of utilization of online resources on academic
performance of undergraduate radiography
students
2. To
understand the relationship between utilization of online resources and
academic performance of undergraduate radiography students
1.1
Research
questions
1. What
is the impact of utilization of online resources on academic performance of
undergraduate radiography students
2
What is the relationship
between utilization of online resources and academic performance of
undergraduate radiography students
1.5
Research
hypothesis
H0:
There is no relationship between utilization of online resources and academic
performance of undergraduate radiography
students
H1:
There is a relationship between utilization of online resources and academic
performance of undergraduate radiography
students
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