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User-Based Perspective on Cost as a Limiting Factor to Conference Call Technology Use in Higher Education: The University of Cape Coast Experience

User-Based Perspective on Cost as a Limiting Factor to Conference Call Technology Use in Higher Education: The University of Cape Coast Experience

Francis Xavier Kofi Akotoye
Copyright: © 2017 |Volume: 9 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 11
ISSN: 1941-627X|EISSN: 1941-6288|EISBN13: 9781522512370|DOI: 10.4018/IJESMA.2017070104
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Akotoye, Francis Xavier Kofi. "User-Based Perspective on Cost as a Limiting Factor to Conference Call Technology Use in Higher Education: The University of Cape Coast Experience." IJESMA vol.9, no.3 2017: pp.62-72. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJESMA.2017070104

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Akotoye, F. X. (2017). User-Based Perspective on Cost as a Limiting Factor to Conference Call Technology Use in Higher Education: The University of Cape Coast Experience. International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications (IJESMA), 9(3), 62-72. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJESMA.2017070104

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Akotoye, Francis Xavier Kofi. "User-Based Perspective on Cost as a Limiting Factor to Conference Call Technology Use in Higher Education: The University of Cape Coast Experience," International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications (IJESMA) 9, no.3: 62-72. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJESMA.2017070104

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Abstract

The use of ICTs in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana, has been described as transformational. However, there is paucity of research on user perspectives on ICTs in institutions of higher learning. This cross-sectional study assessed the perception of students at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana regarding cost as a limiting factor to the use of conference call technology. The complementary log-log regression model was based on a sample of 62 students surveyed in April and May 2015; which sixty-nine percent indicated that cost was a limiting factor. Though Chi-square statistic failed to reject the hypothesis, at the bivariate level, some relationships were statistically significant. Most of these relationships were not robust and disappeared completely when other factors were controlled in the multivariate model. Also, some relationships were absent at the bivariate level and only appeared at the multivariate level indicating that the connection between students' perception of cost and compositional and organisational factors is complex.

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