Use of Educational Management Information System in the University of Lagos Distance Learning Education, Nigeria

PROJECT: 

 TARGET GROUP: UNIVERSITIES

OBJECTIVES

·        To facilitate and promote the use of relevant information by various agencies and individuals at all levels for more effective educational planning implementation and management.

·        To integrate information related to the management of educational activities, and to make it available in comprehensive yet succinct ways to a variety of users.

·        To streamline the flow of information for decision-making by reducing and eliminating duplications as well as filling information gaps.

·        To provide information for policy dialogue and scenarios for development of the education system. To strengthen the education statistical system in Nigeria by linking and assembling different existing information systems, integrates and synthesizes them in one single system of all education data both the quantitative and qualitative; and

·        To produce more relevant, reliable and timely data needed at every tier of government for strategic planning, policy formulation and decision support initiative in education in Nigeria

SUMMARY

The main purpose of an EMIS is to integrate information related to the management of educational activities, and to make it available in comprehensive yet succinct ways to a variety of users. These include teachers, principals, curriculum planners, inspectorate officials, financial controllers, planners, policy advisers and political leaders, as well as parents and students. In this way, the combined information resources of the EMIS are at the service of the entire community.

This study investigated the use of an educational management information system in distance learning education at the University of Lagos. Objectives are as follows:

·        Discover whether EMIS has helped to properly measure and evaluate the performance of University of Lagos distance learning education.

·        Find out whether EMIS is useful for effective planning of the University of Lagos distance learning Education.

·        Determine whether there is a significant relationship between EMIS and the quality of the University of Lagos Distance Education delivery.

·        Recommend on how to improve the use of the educational management information system in University of Lagos distance learning education

REFERENCE:

https://philarchive.org/archive/ODUUOE