Abstract: During the first COVID-19 lockdown, higher institutions in Nigeria, like others in the global community, resorted to Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT). The experiences and perceptions of ERT are being harnessed to build a stronger education system, especially digitalized teaching/learning, to withstand future occurrences such as the COVID-19 lockdown in various communities at all levels of education. This study aimed at assessing lecturers' perceptions of their ERT experience and the future of digitalized teaching/learning in the higher institution. Using a descriptive survey method., we obtained the perceptions of 230 lecturers at the College of Education, (now University of Delta), Agbor, Delta State, Nigeria. We found that the lecturers had the challenge of unpreparedness to use online.........
Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic, Emergency Remote Teaching, Higher Education delivery, Online teaching prospect, Nigeria.
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