Academic Staff Challenges to Effective Utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Teaching/Learning of Agricultural Education

• Autorzy: Oluchi Jannet Azuh , Melody Ndidi Modebelu
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

ICT has offered great potential, especially as an aid to every aspect of human endeavor. Inspire of the roles played by ICT especially in teaching/learning, there are still some impediments to its effective utilization by the academic staff. This work examined the academic staff challenges to effective utilization of ICT in teaching and learning of Agricultural Education in Federal Universities in South East geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Forty respondents were purposively sampling from universities and used for the study. Three research questions guided the study. A 35-item researchers' developed questionnaire was used for data collection. Instrument validation covered face and content validity by two experts in educational management and agricultural education. While reliability index values of 0.86, 0.85 and 0.92 were obtained using Cronbach alpha. Means and grand means were used to analyze the research questions. The findings revealed a low extent utilization and inadequate ICT tool literacy among the academic staff in the federal universities in south east geo-political zone of Nigeria. It is therefore recommended that the academic staff avail themselves the opportunity of various conferences and workshops to acquire the needed skills for effective utilization of ICT tools. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Information and Communication Technology (ICT); Academic staff; Teaching; Agricultural education; Research results

PL

Technologie informacyjne i telekomunikacyjne; Pracownicy naukowi; Nauczanie; Edukacja rolnicza; Wyniki badań

• Czasopismo: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (ILSHS)
• Rocznik: 2014
• Tom: 2
• Strony: 88--96

Twórcy

autor

Oluchi Jannet Azuh

• Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, Nigeria

autor

Melody Ndidi Modebelu

• Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, Nigeria

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