A Basic Strategy for Incorporating Lecture Notes with Audio-Visuals of Practical Activities to Foster Online Electronic Learning Implementation in Studio or Laboratory-Based Institutions

Abstract

T he increasing quest for tertiary education in Ghana has assumed an overwhelming magnitude in recent time, mounting pressure on public university management to increase enrolment. This has led to overwhelming student population, o verstretching physical learning facilities in various departments on public university campuses. Online electronic learning system that facilitates distance education has become a major panacea in the universities for over coming these challenges. At Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), this system is being pursued rigorously to avail tertiary education to many eligible students who are unable to gain admissi on through the regular enrolment scheme. Unfortunately, faculties that run practical-based programmes in studio or laboratory environments have the challenge of delivering practical activities on online learning platforms to enhance effective electronic learning implementation in their departments. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate to institutional web developers, a simplified strategy for incorporating lecture notes with audio-visuals of practical and demonstrational activities to foster online electronic learning implementation in studio or laboratory-based institutions. The Design-Based Research concept underlined this practice led study, in which two (2) computer application software; Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 and TechSmith Camtasia Studio version 2018 were used to foster practical field studies in the virtual classroom space for the Department of Fisheries and Watershed Management in the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources at KNUST.