Adetona, Zacchaeus; Ogunyemi, Joel; Oduntan, Esther (2021)

At its peak, the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria forced the country into a social lockdown that prevented all normal activities including education. The Nigerian Ministry of education and other educational institutions in Nigeria introduced e-learning during the pandemic lockdown. The e-learning activities were carried out with many challenges faced by institutions' management, ICT staff, lecturers, and students alike. The focus of this paper is to investigate the e-learning utilisation during the period of COVID-19 lockdown. In carrying out this research, the survey approach was employed to generate data for the study in the SouthWest of Nigeria. This was achieved through the circulation of copies of a questionnaire electronically after personal interviews with certain personnel. The population sample for the study comprised students from the SouthWest part of the country while the respondents were from various tertiary institutions and locations in the area. The results showed that e-learning was employed for various aspects of learning including lectures (87.7%), quizzes (37.8%), assignments (69.6%), practical classes (15.2%) and examination (17.4). A total of 88% of respondents indicated understanding of the concept of e-learning while only 12% outrightly indicated they did not understand the concept. Only 9.2% of the respondents have 100% concentration during the online classes. Over 70% of the whole sample was apathetic to online learning while only 9.3% prefer it to traditional teaching. The study revealed that educational stakeholders should improve upon and extend the gains of e-learning during to take fuller effect post-COVID-19.