Accessing the Availabilities, Utilization and Attitude of Teachers in E-learning Technologies for the Teaching and Learning of TVET Programmes in the North-west Nigeria

Abstract

The study focused on Accessing the Availabilities, Utilization and Attitude of Teachers in E-learning Technologies for the Teaching and Learning of TVET Programmes in the North-west Nigeria Two research questions were developed and answered in line with what the study sought to find out. Also two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at the probability of 0.05 levels of significance. The study made use the questionnaire consists of fifty questions, divided into four sections with five printed pages. The questions included close-ended as well as open-ended questions to capture respondents' experiences regarding the application of the e-learning technologies in their core business of teaching in the Nigerian COEs. The instrument was face validated by the researcher's senior colleagues in the school of Technical Education and to ensure reliability of the items, they were pilot tested in two (2) Colleges outside the selected COEs within the study area. The entire population for the study was 98,377 Students across the colleges 2000 obtained from the sampled colleges selected from the study area. Three hundred and twenty (100) respondents were sampled out of the total population using stratified simple random sampling technique. The data collected for the study were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean and Standard deviation) to answer the research questions raised where t-test statistical analysis was employed by the researcher to test the null hypotheses.  The findings of the study revealed that the potentials for real adoption of e-learning technologies for the teaching and learning of TVET programmes in the Nigerian COEs are great, also revealed that the level of e-learning technologies utilization varies among the research participants, and over 75% of participants are happy to use e-learning technologies for educational purposes.