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Expressing Information Needs And Information Literacy Skills Amongst Final Year Undergraduate Students In Northern Nigeria, Zikrat Abdulsalam, Imoisili Ojeime Odigie Jul 2023

Expressing Information Needs And Information Literacy Skills Amongst Final Year Undergraduate Students In Northern Nigeria, Zikrat Abdulsalam, Imoisili Ojeime Odigie

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information literacy is the ability of an individual to locate, evaluate, and use information. This study expresses the conscious information needs and information literacy skills amongst final year undergraduate students of three Universities in Nigeria; being the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Federal University Lokoja (FUL), and Baze University. A survey research design alongside a questionnaire for the instrument were utilised on a sample size of 307 final year undergraduate students from select faculties within the above-mentioned universities. The findings of the study amongst other show that undergraduate students at the final year level had a conscious knowledge of their information …


Professional Variables And Staff Readiness To Utilise Internet-Based Channels For Research Communication In An Era Of Covid-19, Valentine Joseph Owan, Levi Udochukwu Akah Phd., Mary Mark Ogbeche, Moses Eteng Obla Jun 2021

Professional Variables And Staff Readiness To Utilise Internet-Based Channels For Research Communication In An Era Of Covid-19, Valentine Joseph Owan, Levi Udochukwu Akah Phd., Mary Mark Ogbeche, Moses Eteng Obla

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study assessed the professional variables of academic staff in African varsities and their readiness to Utilise Internet-Based Channels for Research Communication in an era of Covid-19. Drawing from Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory, the study was guided by four null hypotheses. The quantitative research method based on the virtual cross-sectional survey design was adopted. A total of 8,591 academics in African universities were the targeted demographic of this study. However, data were collected from a virtual snowball sample of 1,977 respondents (males, N = 1347; females, N = 630) from 24 African countries. A validated electronic survey, with three …


A Bibliometric Analysis Of School Based Management Research In Indonesia From 2010 To 2020, Nabila Sani May 2021

A Bibliometric Analysis Of School Based Management Research In Indonesia From 2010 To 2020, Nabila Sani

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This study aims to map scientific publications in the field of school based management visually at the global level indexed by Scopus using Bibliometric analysis. This study focused on articles of School Based Management at the international level. Research data were obtained from the Scopus database in December 2020 through the publish or perish software. All the discussions and analysis in this paper is based on 52 papers consisting of 40 papers, 7 conference papers and 3 reviews. Then the paper will be analyzed using the VOSviewer application for viewing and creating the desired Bibliometric maps. In total, 52 papers …


Indonesian Research Output On Online Learning/E-Learning Publication Using The Scopus Database: A Scientometric Analysis, Akbar Iskandar, Badrun Kartowagiran, Mansyur Mansyur, Nurmawati Nurmawati, Lusiana Wulansari Mar 2021

Indonesian Research Output On Online Learning/E-Learning Publication Using The Scopus Database: A Scientometric Analysis, Akbar Iskandar, Badrun Kartowagiran, Mansyur Mansyur, Nurmawati Nurmawati, Lusiana Wulansari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

e-Learning is considered to be one of the most relevant topics to discuss in this study because the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the implementation of teaching and learning to be carried out from home. This study was conducted by using Scientometrics analysis method, which is also known as bibliometric analysis. This analysis was carried out to determine how the development of scientific publications in the e-Learning field in Indonesia. The data in this study were collected by searching through the Scopus database with keywords: (TITLE-ABS-KEY(elearning) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(e-learning) AND AFFILCOUNTRY(indonesia)) and the data were taken on March 20, 2021. The …


E-Learning Enhancement, Status And Attitude Of Learners Towards Teaching Learning During Covid-19 Pandemic, Shweta Gupta, Shri Ram Pandey, Sujata Gupta Jan 2021

E-Learning Enhancement, Status And Attitude Of Learners Towards Teaching Learning During Covid-19 Pandemic, Shweta Gupta, Shri Ram Pandey, Sujata Gupta

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study explored the several dimensions of eLearning used by Indian Higher Institutions and presented insight into current eLearning pedagogy, infrastructures, services, and perceptions during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The study's findings reveal that Indian Academic institutions are unwilling to shift to the online mode for teaching, learning thoroughly. Pandemic forced them to adopt the e-learning pedagogy and tools. A majority of users still prefer the traditional classroom environment as compared to eLearning. Email, social media, and other communications tools became vital today. Email, traditionally used as a communication tool, is now a key player in delivering educational content. Social media …