ASSESSMENT OF AVAILABILITY, ACCESSIBILITY AND UTILIZATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) RESOURCES IN CONTENT DELIVERY AMONG LECTURERS IN FEDERAL COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA
ASSESSMENT OF AVAILABILITY, ACCESSIBILITY AND UTILIZATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) RESOURCES IN CONTENT DELIVERY AMONG LECTURERS IN FEDERAL COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA
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2014-05
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ZUBAIRU, Suleiman Abubakar
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Abstract
This study aimed at assessing the availability, accessibility and utilization of Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) resources among lecturers in content delivery in Federal
Colleges of Education in Nigeria. Eight research questions and two hypotheses were drawn to
guide the study. Related literatures were reviewed after the conceptual framework based on
the major variables of the study. A Survey research design was adopted to conduct the study.
The population of the study comprises of all the lecturers in Federal Colleges of Education in
Nigeria. They are five thousand and seventy one (5,071) in number. A sample size of eight
hundred and forty three (843) lecturers was used for the study; using cluster, simple random
and proportional sampling techniques. A modified questionnaire tagged Teachers ICT usage
survey from the ICT Survey Indicator for teachers and staff developed by both UNESCO
(2004) and the New Zealand Ministry of Education (1999) was used for data collection. It was
designed under seven (7) different sections and harmonized in one single questionnaire.
Percentage was used to interpret the demographic data of the study, while frequency count
was used to answer research questions 1-6 and descriptive statistics was used to answer
research questions 7and 8 respectively. Independent t-test statistics was also used to answer
research hypothesis 1 using mean and standard deviation, while one way ANOVA was used
to answer hypothesis 2 using sum of square, degree of freedom, mean of sum of square, and
were tested at p<0.05 level of significance using statistical package for social science. The
two null hypotheses were rejected. The findings of this study revealed that ICT resources are
not available in Federal Colleges of Education in Nigeria. It was also revealed that ICT
resources which were supposed to be used in content delivery by lecturers in FCE were not
accessible and also lecturers were not exposed and proficient in using ICT resources. This
study also confirmed that the major challenge facing lecturers in using ICT is the irregularity
in power supply. This study recommends, among others, that the Government, NCCE and the
managements of FCE should join hands together and ensure that computer laboratories are
available in FCE with adequate functional computer hardware and software and functional
internet facilities that will cater for the need of both staff and students
Description
A Dissertation Submitted to the School of Postgraduate Studies
Ahmadu Bello University
Zaria
In the Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Doctor of
Philosophy in Instructional Technology
Department of Educational Foundations and Curriculum
Faculty of Education
Ahmadu Bello University
Zaria
MAY, 2014
Keywords
AVAILABILITY,,, ACCESSIBILITY,, UTILIZATION,, INFORMATION,, COMMUNICATION,, TECHNOLOGY,, LECTURERS,, FEDERAL COLLEGES,, EDUCATION IN NIGERIA