Olonikawu Samuel

https://doi.org/10.64823/ijepp.2601003

During Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown, citizens were directed to stay in door in other to break the chain of transmission of the pandemic. The only mode of communication available to the outside world during the lockdown is digital communication via telephone, computer, information communication technology (ICT) devices and other multi-media learning technologies and devices. This research’ Impact of multi-media technologies to learning on secondary education during covid-19 lockdown in selected secondary school in FCT, Abuja’ explore challenges militating against using e-learning and m-learning during COVID-19 lockdown by conducting investigative study among the students and teachers to assess their readiness to use of multi-media for teaching and learning by schools during COVID-19 lockdown. This research work is a survey research that used random sampling to obtain data from the sampled population of 225 out of the total study population of 5567 that comprises students and teachers across the nine (9) selected secondary schools with 4 publics and 5 private secondary schools in FCT, Abuja. Findings revealed that e-learning and m-learning were effectively used while m-learning was used by the majority of the students with 81.8% used it for learning. It was concluded that, the challenges that were raised need to be addressed to improve the state of learning via multi-media technologies in both private and public schools. This will in return bridge the gap between current state of things when we compare both the private and public schools in terms of multi-media facilities to deliver online and broadcasting media learning.