Locational Dynamics Influencing the Information Environment of Distance Learners in Botswana

Oladokun, Olugbade

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“…A study in [8] had shown that location of students contributes to the interest of distance learners in having information need on test, examinations and residential sessions/periods. The result of the study shows that more respondents from the village (rural area) than expected indicated that information on tests, examinations and residential sessions was a need area for them; whereas less respondents from the metropolitan areas (city and town) than expected said 'no' to information on tests, examination and residential sessions as a need area.…”

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Evaluating the Information Needs of Home-based and Cross-border Distance Learners in Botswana

Oladokun¹

2015

LICEJ

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Evaluating the Information Needs of Home-based and Cross-border Distance Learners in Botswana

Oladokun¹

2015

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“…According to Oladokun (2009), the information environment “is viewed as the type of environment which individuals interact with either for purposes of providing or obtaining information for use in day-to-day living or to perform a task”. Thus, the information environment comprises the information needs and information seeking behaviour of individuals, information resources and services available to individuals and channels used by individuals in obtaining information, in order to perform a particular task.…”

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The information environment of agricultural stakeholders in Botswana

Aina

2012

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The study surveyed the agricultural information needs, information sources used and the awareness of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)’s products and services by the various agricultural stakeholders in Botswana. The survey covered 52 agricultural researchers/educators, 30 extension agents, 54 students, 12 commercial farmers, and 45 subsistence farmers. Data collection instruments used for the study were the questionnaire, interview and focus group discussions. The findings reveal that the agricultural stakeholders in Botswana had a wide range of information needs, especially on government programmes, farm problems and identification of market for agricultural products. The prominent information sources used were the Internet, journal articles and technical papers. The study also revealed that most of the stakeholders were not aware of CTA’s products and services and that the Spore magazine was the product mainly used. The Question and Answer Service was rarely used by the stakeholders. The study recommends that the Botswana College of Agriculture (BCA) Library should be selected as the agency to provide agricultural information services to all the stakeholders in Botswana, given its rich information resources in agriculture, and that CTA should reappraise its services in Botswana by ensuring that its services are well utilized by agricultural information stakeholders.

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“…One of these LSS that is important and essential for ODL students is library and information support services (Usun, 2004;Ogidan, 2010;Amini, 2012;Patrick & Ihejirika, 2012). However, studies have shown that library and information support services for ODL students are either non-existing or inadequate in African universities (Aina, 2008;Ogidan, 2010;Benedict, 2011;Olowonefa & Musa, 2011;Oladokun, 2012). A key component of these library and information support services is information literacy, whose its provision should be mandatory to ODL students (George & Frank, 2004;ACRL, 2008;Aina, 2008) for proper identification, accessibility, retrieval, evaluation and ethical utilisation of information resources, which will result to academic performance and productivity.…”

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Information Literacy Awareness, Perception and Skills Assessment Using Students of National Open University in Southwest Nigeria

Igwe

Ndubuisi-Okoh

2014

International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence

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This study was carried out to find out the level of information literacy (IL) awareness, perception and skills of students of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). It was based on the fact that IL instruction course is missing in the curriculum of NOUN, thus, it is therefore a necessity to ascertain awareness and perception levels of the students about IL issues well as their skills assessment test. Survey research method was adopted involving 197 respondents that were found during visits to the four study centres for data collection. Questionnaire was used for data collection, which was administered, properly filled, returned, and used for data analysis with descriptive statistics. Findings revealed that NOUN students have poor level of awareness and perception about IL, as a result of rejection level in seven out of ten statements. However, the other accepted three see IL issues as antidote to poor IL skills of students. Generally, the IL assessment test shows that a greater percentage of the students, when summed together lack IL skills. Avenues through which they acquired IL skills were analysed as well as the challenges affecting their IL skills development. Recommendations were made among which are integration of IL Instruction into the curriculum of NOUN and provision of adequate and functional human, infrastructural and information resources for result-oriented service delivery in the libraries.

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Locational Dynamics Influencing the Information Environment of Distance Learners in Botswana

Cited by 4 publications

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Evaluating the Information Needs of Home-based and Cross-border Distance Learners in Botswana

Evaluating the Information Needs of Home-based and Cross-border Distance Learners in Botswana

The information environment of agricultural stakeholders in Botswana

Information Literacy Awareness, Perception and Skills Assessment Using Students of National Open University in Southwest Nigeria

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