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Recommended Citation: Odunaike, A and J Dehinbo. Institutional e-learning Readiness: A Case Study of TUT. In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2009, v 26 (Washington DC): §4342. ISSN: 1542-7382.

Institutional e-learning Readiness: A Case Study of TUT

Refereed

11 pages

Adeyemi Odunaike    [a1] [a2]
Department of Software Development
Tshwane University of Technology (TUT)    [u1] [u2]
Pretoria, South Africa    [c1] [c2]

Johnson Dehinbo    [a1] [a2]
Department of Software Development
Tshwane University of Technology (TUT)    [u1] [u2]
Pretoria, South Africa    [c1] [c2]

The realities of skills shortage are overwhelmingly taking its toll on academics, teaching and learning in the country resulting in an unprecedented excessive work load on few academic staff around to such a great extent that their academic career, training, further development and research outputs suffers a huge consequence. The current trends in our institution are pressurizing existing models of education, learning contents development, life-long learning, and research output and threatening our education standard to such extent that intense disruption to traditional higher education institution and corporate training is imminent. However, it is very common for managers and educationist to hear arguments that instructional technology will be the key focus to educational policies and qualities as we embark slowly but steadily into the new millennium. Not so long, schools and their governing councils are devising and investing in computers, network and web based technologies. In particular, educators have realized that computer networking through e-learning offers flexible and powerful way of accomplishing wide range of opportunities that have been long important and resourceful in schools, such as gaining access to universal information resources that relieve academic staff of their work load leaving time for professional development and time to improve on their research output which have been so elusive for sometime now. Technically, e-learning or Web-based education is arguably a very costly business to install and even more costly to maintain. Hence the purpose of this study is to evaluate and assess organisation readiness in implementing this cost intensive technology.

Keywords: E-learning, Web-based education, Web technology, Web-based Technology, E-learning readiness

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