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Richard Kyere Asomah; Douglas Darko Agyei; Gabriel Assamah; Kwaku Darko Amponsah – Cogent Education, 2024
The study discusses the impact of a nationwide deployment of Wi-Fi technology in some Senior High Technical Vocational Schools (SHTVs) in Ghana, using the first four levels of Guskey's framework. A stratified sampling approach was used to select 119 teachers as participants in the study. An embedded mixed method research design was employed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Vocational Education, High School Teachers
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Yaw Ofosu-Asare – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to propose a conceptual framework for integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) into teaching practices for educators in rural Ghana lacking computer and internet access. Bridging the rural-urban digital divide is critical for equitable quality education. This research identifies distinct infrastructure,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
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Tabiri, Michael Owusu; Jones-Mensah, Ivy; Fenyi, Daniel Arkoh; Asunka, Stephen – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
This study investigated the challenges that learners of English and French encountered during their participation in online language learning in a university in Ghana. The study adopted a quantitative survey approach by administering online questionnaire to undergraduate students at the university and analysing the data using descriptive…
Descriptors: Barriers, Online Courses, French, English (Second Language)
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Tichaona Buzy Musikavanhu; Elizabeth Isabel Scheepers – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2024
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the transition to online learning, with synchronous e-learning becoming a critical modality in higher education institutions (HEIs) worldwide. This shift, while ensuring educational continuity, has unveiled numerous challenges, especially in developing nations where resources and infrastructure…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Electronic Learning, Barriers, College Students
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Yeboah, Douglas; Nyagorme, Paul – Cogent Education, 2022
Many educators are concerned about students' use of WhatsApp for learning purposes, especially in emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study applied the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model to examine factors that predict distance students' acceptance of WhatsApp for learning. Correlational…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Mediated Communication, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Emily Bradshaw; Royce Kimmons; Fanny Eliza Bondah – Open Praxis, 2024
This article explores the formal localization of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Ghana, focusing on the remixing of human rights courses for youth and young adults. While working with an NGO that focuses on providing educational resources to low bandwidth areas, partner teachers in Ghana remixed openly-licensed human rights content provided by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Source Technology, Teachers, Youth Agencies
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Arthur-Nyarko, Emmanuel; Kariuki, Moses Githua – International Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
eLearning is a learning process which aims at creating an interactive learning environment through the use of computers and the Internet. This paper sought to investigate distance learner's access to resource for eLearning and its influence on preferred eLearning delivery mode. The study employed an analytical survey to collect and analyze data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Distance Education
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Biney, Isaac Kofi – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
The advancement in information and communication technology and its application in teaching and learning tools have taken learning to a higher level. Innovations in information and communication technology and its deployment in teaching and learning aid adult learning through the distance education mode. Accra Learning Centre hosts the biggest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Information Technology, Teaching Methods
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Okebukola, Peter A.; Suwadu, Bugoma; Oladejo, Adekunle; Nyandwi, Ramadhani; Ademola, Ibukun; Okorie, Henry; Awaah, Fred – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
This paper provides glimpses of transactions in chemistry classrooms in five African countries (Burundi, Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, and Senegal) during the COVID-19 lockdown. Members of the secondary school community in the countries including teachers, students, and school managers were unprepared for the unprecedent demand in shift from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Asabere, Nana; Togo, Gilbert; Acakpovi, Amevi; Torby, Wisdom; Ampadu, Kwame – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2017
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has changed the way we communicate and carry out certain daily activities. Globally, ICT has become an essential means for disseminating information. Using Accra Technical University in Ghana as a case study, this paper proposes an ICT model called Awareness Incentives Demand and Support (AIDS). Our…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Information Technology, Technology Integration, Models
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Buabeng-Andoh, Charles; Totimeh, Fred – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2012
This study was conducted to explore secondary school teachers' innovative use of computer technologies in classroom. Questionnaires were distributed to 273 teachers in fourteen schools comprising 5 urban schools, 5 semi-urban schools and 4 rural schools. 241 were returned, and 231 valid questionnaires were used for data analysis, representing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Literacy, Teaching Methods
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Awidi, Isaiah T. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2008
While technology has enabled online education in many countries, the same cannot be said for African public universities. Universities in Ghana have made some progress in building networking infrastructure and acquiring computers, but integrating technology into the teaching and learning process has been a challenge. Instructional delivery remains…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
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Sampong, Kwasi Addo – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
The study used an adaptation of Provus' discrepancy evaluation model to evaluate a distance teacher education program in the University of Cape Coast, the premier teacher education institution in Ghana. The study involved comparing performance data of the program as perceived by students and faculty/administrators to standards prepared from the…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Distance Education, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
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Beaudoin, Michael F. – E-Learning, 2007
Many countries identified with the developing world, such as those in sub-Saharan Africa, have been recipients of aid programs over the past five decades totaling billions of dollars and aimed at fostering social and economic development to achieve global parity with the industrialized world. Much of this activity has been focused on building…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Online Courses, Economic Development