EMERGENCY REMOTE TEACHING DURING THE COVID-19 LOCKDOWN: A FOCUS ON ENUGU SCHOOL, ON THE RADIO PROGRAMME OF THE FEDERAL RADIO CORPORATION OF NIGERIA (FRCN)

Ozioko, Obioma R. and Godswill, John and Ugwuoke, Ifeoma B. (2021) EMERGENCY REMOTE TEACHING DURING THE COVID-19 LOCKDOWN: A FOCUS ON ENUGU SCHOOL, ON THE RADIO PROGRAMME OF THE FEDERAL RADIO CORPORATION OF NIGERIA (FRCN). International Journal of Communication Research, 11 (4). pp. 327-341.

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Abstract

Global digitization of learning mitigates the education loss caused by school-closures during the COVID-19 lockdown globally, but few studies examine the awareness and participation level of the target audience, as well as factors that influence their participation and engagement level to address such concerns. To fill this gap, we adopted a mixed method approach on “Enugu School on Radio Program of FRCN” using 184 senior secondary school students from public schools and 192 senior secondary school students in private schools. We found that students in both schools are highly aware of Enugu School on Radio (71% and 78%) respectively. Despite this high level of awareness, only 13.9% of participants in public schools and 20.7% of participants in private school participated actively in terms of submitting their assignments to teachers for evaluation. This study also reveals that there are varying factors to these effects: ranging from a lack of trust on the part of the students (15%, 14%) to a lack of access to internet/digital devices especially for participants in public schools (34%), as opposed to (21%) for those in private schools. The study also exposed that lack of parental support especially for students in private school (39%) and 33% for public schools hindered the participants from participating actively. The students in public schools who didn’t participate because they normally forget it is at (12%), while in private school it is at (11%). We argue that helping students to have access to the internet/digital devices as well as maximum parental support with sufficient campaign on perceived benefits of remote/online learning from media practitioners will burst students trusts/ participation in remote/online learning.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education
Divisions:	Faculty of Management and Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Uchenna Eneogwe
Date Deposited:	28 Aug 2025 12:52
Last Modified:	28 Aug 2025 12:52
URI:	http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/5357

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