Lecturers Level of Awareness and ICT Utilisation for Teaching Health Education in Nigeria Colleges
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https://doi.org/10.57125/FED.2024.09.25.15Keywords:
ICT, instruction, pedagogy, health educationAbstract
Information and communication technology (ICT) greatly influences teaching and learning in higher education by facilitating both the instructional and learning processes. Although Studies have been conducted on the use of ICT in teaching and learning in developed countries, of which most of the findings indicated significant positive relationship between knowledge of ICT and professional development in teacher education program, very few studies have been carried out in Nigeria on college lecturers’ awareness and utilization of ICT in teaching and learning in Nigeria institutions. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate lecturers’ level of awareness of ICT and ICT utilization for teaching Health Education in Nigeria. A descriptive research design was adopted. A total of 515 respondents were chosen through a multistage sampling technique. Respondent completed The Information and Communication Technology Competencies for Teachers Questionnaire (QICTT). Findings of this study showed that lecturer’s knowledge of ICT is relatively high. Notwithstanding, they hardly utilized ICT resources for teaching Health Education courses. Result further indicated that there was a significant difference in lecturer’s knowledge of ICT and utilization of ICT in teaching Health Education (t=76.359, df=59, p<0.05). Lecturer’s knowledge of ICT had a greater mean of 21.0000 while utilization had a mean of 11.51556, indicating a mean difference of 9.4844. Going by the findings of this study, it is important to place emphasis on attitudinal change of lecturers towards the use of information and communication technology. This is because attitudes towards the use of ICT appears to be a major factor that determines whether a potential users would utilize ICT or not. Therefore, there is a need for training and re training of college lecturers on attitudinal change towards the use of ICT.
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