Impact of ICT on Remote Teaching and Learning in Higher Institutions in Namibia

Impact of ICT on Remote Teaching and Learning in Higher Institutions in Namibia

Copyright: © 2025 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-7366-5.ch035
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Abstract

Online learning remains one of the foremost enablers for enhancing education through inventive advances and pedagogies. In any case, the victory rate of students studying through open and remove learning (ORL) remains low. Subsequently, teaching of higher learning in Namibia ought to ceaselessly build up and evaluate the challenges influencing techniques required to address such challenges. Over the past two decades, e-learning has become a progressively critical field of consideration that has pulled in scholarly and approach makers' considerations. Numerous countries have grasped e-learning as a device to upgrade the availability and affordability of higher instruction.
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Creating compelling learning exercises requires cautious assessment of the aiming learning approach. This assessment ought to centre on whether these exercises have met the required results of the learning and received suitable educationally sound approaches. It is imperative that innovation does not drive or contrarily impact the learning; or maybe it ought to bolster and improve the learning. Since mobile learning is still moderately modern, compared to other learning approaches, there's still small empirical evidence of how portable innovation improves the learning process (Herrington & Herrington, 2007). Consequently, it is imperative that portable learning exercises be designed with cautious consideration of fitting learning hypothesis to assist guarantee that craved learning results are met.

Separate Instruction is able of conveying quality college instruction to geographically marginalised and scattered African understudies, be that as it may, this get to have to be contextualised within the continuous wrangle about around get to data and communication innovations (ICTs). The data systems does not see the same all over (Broadband Commission, 2013; ITU, 2017; Slope & William, 2018; Warf, 2019), as get to ICTs is spread unevenly across different spaces, populaces and families (Graham et al., 2014; Bornman, 2015; Pashapa & Rivett, 2017). Online learning remains one of the foremost capable enablers and quickening agents for figuring it out higher instruction studies, enhancing instructing by implies of inventive advances and pedagogies (Fernando, 2018). The improvement of education in Namibia is guided by four wide objectives, specifically; get to, value, quality and popular government (Government of the republic of Namibia, 2002). Considering through ORL remains one of the foremost helpful modes of study, promoting get to higher instruction in Namibia. This mode centres on opening get to instruction and training provision, liberating understudies from the limitations of time and put and managing them an opportunity to get to a form of instruction that's adaptable for person understudies. With the rise of the fourth mechanical revolution characterised by the digitalisation of combination innovation, open and remove learning has the potential to supply future generations with the suitable abilities and information through innovative headway (Valdes, Comendador, Sanz & Catan, 2018).

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