Implications on the Effectiveness of Online Tertiary Education at Higher Education Levels of Imparting Education in Zambia

Abstract

This article aims at analyzing the effectiveness of the online tertiary education at higher education levels in Zambia. The background of this study is based on the policy direction of the revised curriculum of 2013 where stress and emphasis was given to teaching in Colleges and Universities using online teaching and learning platforms. The need for online teaching and learning methods has become the priority in most institutions of the world and in the space taken to study in this paper. This type of system is to enhance teaching prospects to students staying in distance from the place of the establishment of the institution. Furthermore, the pandemic effect on society in most parts of the world favored the tertiary teaching learning methodology and strategizes the innovative approach to imparting of education that became the most need to the reality in modernity. Nevertheless, this paper harps on the effectiveness of such an approach and a sample space was taken to comprehend the practicality of such usage. On analytical performances to derive a positive result, questionnaire method was taken to practice, which was specially designed to be used amongst the students of higher education levels. More than 100 students were taken for sample space and the students from the universities and colleges of varied professionalism took part in the survey. The survey turned to be a positive expression of effectiveness as taken to study.