Title: Video conferencing as a teaching mode in higher educational institutions in Uganda: teacher perception

Authors: Magombe Yasin; Adam A. Alli; Nambobi Mutwalibi; Juma Kasadha

Addresses: Islamic University in Uganda, Mbale, Uganda ' Uganda Technical College Bushenyi, Bushenyi, Uganda ' Islamic University in Uganda, Kampala Campus, Kampala, Uganda ' City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China

Abstract: Recently, Information Communication Technologies (ICT) have gained significant usage in enabling institutions to continuously deliver education even during the COVID-19 pandemics lockdown. Its significant application in the education sphere has resulted in new capabilities at all levels of educational institutions. In Uganda, the use of video-enabled teaching is increasingly being established in universities especially during the COVID-19 lockdowns. In this study, we examine teachers' perception of the use of video conferencing, as a mode of teaching in higher educational institutions. The findings of this study show that teachers are of the high opinion about Video Conferencing (VC) as a mode of teaching at Higher Education Institution (HEI). In the study, several challenges that included poor ICT infrastructure, slow internet connection and those related to the cost of establishing a reasonable ICT infrastructure that can support VC were revealed. We conclude our study by providing recommendations required to improve infrastructure and to create policies to support online education as a whole and in particular VC as a teaching model that bridges in person, in class and remote learning.

Keywords: higher education institutions; ICT infrastructure; information and communication technology; learning theory; technology acceptance model; video conferencing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSMARTTL.2022.128008

International Journal of Smart Technology and Learning, 2022 Vol.3 No.1, pp.46 - 66

Received: 18 Jan 2021
Accepted: 23 May 2021
Published online: 04 Jan 2023 *

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