With purposive and convenience sampling techniques, a sample size of 108 health tutors was involved in the study. This study assessed the perspective, practice and barrier that mitigate the integration of Information and Communication Technologies into nursing and midwifery education in Ghana. The study, therefore, proposed that much effort should be injected into promulgating the OER in the institution. Students who are also supposed to be direct beneficiaries never used the OERs at all. The academic staff who knew about the OERs used them for their research activities.
The findings indicated that the majority of academic staff (83.9%) and students (91.5%) were not familiar with the term OER in Kumasi Technical University hence, they hardly used the resources. Questionnaires were administered to lecturers (n = 50) and students (n = 300) sampled for the study. The study, therefore, evaluated the awareness, attitude and usage of OERs by students and staff at the Kumasi Technical University.
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While investment in OERs has been considerable through the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH), there has not been an evaluation to develop a full understanding of how these Open Educational Resources are perceived and patronized by academic staff and students. Open Educational Resources (OERs) are part of a growing, global movement in open practice in Higher Education current and potential use of OERs have significant implications for the student in Higher Education. Aside from the connection that might be built up between performance in assessments and the speaking of Non-standard English or Pidgin English, issues might be overflowing in the secondary schools where most learners don't perform well in assessments, all the more particularly in English language papers. This study is considered as a feature of an on-going pursuit to discover the relationship between's the speaking of Pidgin English and performance in exmination particularly the WASSCE. Numerous secondary and tertiary students are open to utilizing Pidgin English in casual circumstances and the low performance of students in English language assessments might be credited to the utilization of Pidgin English. It is absurd that Pidgin English will ever be utilized as a mechanism of teaching in Ghanaian schools due to the social stigma appended to it.
Pidgin English in Ghana has a stigma appended to it, yet it appreciates some esteem among learners at the secondary and tertiary level of education. However, different group of scholars disagrees to such perception and thoughts This study therefore intends to understand the relationship that exist between the utilization of Pidgin English and the students’ academic performance in English language.
A group of scholars holds the believe that, Pidgin English has an adverse influence on the students who sits for the WAEC examination in the English language paper of which the Chief examiner himself has testified to that fact. There have been concerns, deliberations, debates and wiles on the effect of the utilization of the Pidgin English by learners at all levels in the educational field with a specific attention and worry on students in the second cycle institutions in Ghana.
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