Students Learning Style and the Usage of Digital Libraries in the Implementation of Secondary Schools Curriculum in Nigeria (Published)
The study examined students’ learning style and the usage of digital library in the implementation of curriculum of secondary school s in Nigeria. The usage of digital libraries has become increasing important in the implementation of secondary schools curriculum in Nigeria. However, students learning styles have been identified as a critical factor that affects their utilization of digital libraries and thereby constitute a limitation to their learning. This was mainly due to certain challenges which include non sensitization and awareness of teachers and libraries attendants to cater for the learners’ peculiar ways of learning, low strength of internet provision in Nigeria, high subscription rate, inadequacy of e-learning resources to support the users the users, inadequate training on digital literacy, low support from educators on incorporating multimedia resources and poor digital literacy. Therefore, if the essential resources are well catered for learners can make use and access the digital libraries very easy to achieve greater learning outcomes which is implementation of secondary schools’ curriculum in Nigeria.
Keywords: Curriculum implementation, Learning Style, Libraries, digital libraries and VARK learning theory