Andrew O. EBOKA

Work place: Department of Computer Science Education, Federal College of Education (Technical) Asaba, PMB 1044, Nigeria

E-mail: an_drey2k@yahoo.com

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Research Interests: Ubiquitous Computing, Hardware Security, Information Security, Network Security, Database Management System, Data Structures and Algorithms

Biography

Andrew O. Eboka `received his HND in Computer Science from Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic in the year 1998, Ebonyi State, PGD from Ebonyi State University in 2013,  BSc/Ed in Computer Science Education from the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu in 2013 also and his MSc in Network Computing from Coventry University, United Kingdom. He currently lectures with the Department of Computer Science Education at Federal College of Education (Technical), Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria.

His research interests include: Network Security and Management, Cyber security, Ubiquitous Computing, Data Security and Forensics. He is a member of: The British Computer Society and Association of Computer Machinery.

Author Articles
Assessing Users Satisfaction and Experience on Academic Websites: A Case of Selected Nigerian Universities Websites

By Arnold A. OJUGO Andrew O. EBOKA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2018.10.07, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2018

Webometric seeks to assess the convenience as well as experience of users, as they interact with web-based system. Businesses use websites as means to present their deliverables to a larger audience. The aim of which is to change, refocus and reshape a user’s image of an organization. Today, it has been extended to facilitate activities such as recruitment etc. We investigate usability of selected Nigerian Universities based on expert review guideline with a focus on the Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun (FUPRE), compare the scores achieved in each criterion among selected university websites. Result shows common strengths, common weakness, unique strengths and unique weakness of these university websites. Some websites were found to have unique characteristics which separated them from the other ones. Most university websites successfully ensured that the trust and credibility section as well as their homepages received the highest scores in their usability analysis. Some of the sites on the contrary, struggled to ensure good search usability and form, and data entry criteria, as many of the websites did not even include the mentioned essential functions in their web design. Findings suggest that even the top ranked universities have websites which is lacking in some different website usability areas.

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