Shafa Mohammed1 Dr Mohammed Magaji Abubakar2
1&2Federal Polytechnic Kaura Namoda
Abstract
This paper assessed online digital resources (You tube & WhatsApp), for teaching potential entrepreneurs in Zamfara State. The population of the study was 13,786 students and lecturers of four higher institutions of Zamfara state, Nigeria. The study covered 200 level students and their lecturers while the sample of the study was 100 lecturers and 200 students totaling 300 selected using random sampling techniques of paper slip. To carry out the study three objectives and three research questions, were formulated. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Instruments used for data collection was questionnaire, and data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics of frequency, and percentage. The study concluded that online digital resources improve teaching, learning, and retention of materials, keeping lecturers and students connected, and engaged in their academic activities, some of the findings of the study revealed that WhatsApp is the most online digital resources use as lecturing resources in higher institutions of Zamfara State, and also the lecturers’ most challenge associated with the use of online digital resources (You tube and WhatsApp) in higher institutions in Zamfara state, is lack of orientation training, and the students revealed thatwith online digital resources (You tube and WhatsApp) instructional materials, tutorial, participation in quiz, tests, assignment, and assessment can be downloaded automatically, In view of this it was recommended that Awareness programmes related to online digital resources usage should be arranged at the institutional, faculties, and/or departmental levels, to enlighten lecturers, and students on the significance of online digital resources(You tube, and WhatsApp) usage, and how to operate it. Faculties and departments in higher institutions should come up with an official online digital resources (You tube, and WhatsApp) groups where all the lecturers upload their instructional materials and enable student to get access to it at their convenient time.
Key words: Online digital resources, You tube, Whatsapp, Entrepreneur