STUDENTS' AWARENESS AND THE USAGE OF CLOUD COMPUTING FOR ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES IN ONDO STATE TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS

Technology is changing every day and it forces the whole world to change with it. Nowadays all of our life is influenced by technology and our education system is not apart from it. Most of developed countries in world moved to cloud based platform in their personal, work and educational environment. Despite the fact that business and governmental organization are already adopting this technology successfully in their system, the higher education institutions are quite new in it. In this study the researchers investigated the level of awareness and usage of cloud computing among students in three tertiary institutions in ondo state. Survey research design was adopted; sample of one hundred and fifty(150) students was randomly selected from the population. The sample comprises undergraduate students from Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko, Federal University of Technology, Akure, and Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo. The instrument for data collection was questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics(percentages). The findings of this research reveal that the students are aware and do have knowledge of the usage of Cloud Computing to facilitate learning in tertiary institutions. Majority of respondents (86.7%) agreed that the usage of Cloud Computing technology in their institution bring about effective learning and the usage of Cloud Computing technology also affect their academics performance in a positive way