Covid 19: Perception of Hospitality Students on Online Learning Tools

Abstract

The recent outbreak of Covid -19 pandemic resulted in the lockdown of every sector of the economy to reduce the spread of this deadly disease and the educational sector is not left out. The focus of teaching and learning from face to face shifted to virtual learning using various interface such as zoom, webinar, Google and Whatsapp. Despite the enormous benefits of utilizing the online mode of learning, students were still finding it difficult to cope with the recent paradigm shift from the traditional method of learning to online mode. This study therefore, seeks to investigate the perception of hospitality students on online learning tools. The research design adopted for this study is a cross-sectional study and the population of this study were full time Hospitality students in Wavecrest College of Hospitality Lagos and Yabatech Lagos . The electronic questionnaire was used to collect data and the reliability co-efficient of the instrument is 0.72. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20 was used to analyze the data collected. The study showed that almost all the participants utilize What Sapp as a platform for online learning but utilize Android phones as device for online learning while few of the respondents utilize window phones.  Also, this study showed that respondents do not wish to continue utilizing online learning for further studies. It can be concluded that the benefits of utilizing online learning are enormous but still have some shortcomings that need to be overcome for the mode of study to be accepted by learners and teachers. It is recommended there is need for regular training of teachers on the utilization of online learning tools that is effective.