Assessment of Instruction Delivery in Distance Education in Nigeria

Abstract

The present study aimed at assessing the level of instruction delivery in distance education in Nigeria. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. A total of 320 distance learners were randomly drawn from five National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) centres. The study focused on the sufficiency of learning media and the extent of preparedness of distance institutions in the adoption of internet-based system in instruction delivery process. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions while t-test statistics was employed to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the study showed that there are sufficient learning media and moderate extent of preparedness in the adoption of internet-based system in distance learning institutions. Based on the findings, some recommendations were made at the end of the study.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s1p95