Students’ Aches with Instructional Audios’ Integration in Teaching and Learning

The current study aimed to identify the challenges students go through when using instructional audios for learning purposes. The researchers surveyed 1350 university students in one of the public universities in Ghana. This follow-up study on the use of instructional audios among university students sought to capture the lived possible challenges that the students went through as they used the instructional audios prepared for their class. After administering and analyzing a nineteen-item Likert scale, four major findings emerged from the study. First, the university students did not experience any challenges in relation to the quality of the instructional audios used in the courseware. Second, poor internet connectivity was one of the main setbacks university students encountered in their attempt to access the instructional audios. Third, access to the instructional audios was not inclusive in nature since the university students needed to pay for downloading them. Finally, 3.5% of university students had neither smartphones nor personal computers to access the instructional audios. Implications for practice are discussed.