Assessing Students’ Satisfaction With an E-Learning System: The Case Of National Open University Of Nigeria

127 BACKGROUND The introduction of ICT into the educational system has re-defined teaching and learning processes or endeavours thereby giving rise to contemporary medium of learning termed “e-learning” (Agbonlahor, 2005). E-learning is an innovative approach for delivering electronically mediated, well-designed, learner-centred and interactive learning environments to anyone, in any place and at any time by utilizing the Internet and digital technologies. More specifically, computers are used to facilitate teaching and learning processes (Hedge and Hayward, 2004). According to Islam (1997), learning with the use of computer is simply online ways of acquiring knowledge through the internet or through the offline CD-ROM. It may be in form of audio, visual, and or audio/visual. The convergence of internet and learning, or internet enabled learning is called e-learning. SUMMARY