AVAILABILITY AND UTILIZATION OF DIGITALIZED TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCES FOR OFFICE TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT SKILLS ACQUISITION IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN DELTA STATE
Keywords:
Availabilty, utilization.digitalized teaching and learning, office technology, NigeriaAbstract
This study investigated Availability and Utilization of Digitalized Teaching and Learning Resources for Office Technology and Management Skills Acquisition in Colleges of Education in Delta State. To achieve the objective of the study, two research questions were raised and one hypothesis formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance .Descriptive survey design was adopted. The population for the study was 340 comprising of students and lecturers. The sample size was 63 lecturers and 277 students. There was no sampling since the population is not too large. Data was collected through validated questionnaire. Cronbach alpha method was used to determine the reliability of the instrument and a reliability co-efficient of 0.73 was obtained. The 340 copies of the questionnaire were administered through the help of three research assistants who were properly briefed on how to administer and retrieve the completed copies of the questionnaire from the respondents. Mean and Standard deviation were used to answer the research question, while the t-test statistics was used to analyze the hypothesis. The findings of the study revealed that digital learning resources were unavailable to students/lecturers for utilization. The findings also showed that there are impediments for effective utilization of digital learning resources which are inadequate funds, inadequate trained personnel to handle digital learning resources, poor or epileptic power supply and inadequate supply of computer hardwares. Based on the findings, it was recommended that efforts should be made by National Commission for Colleges of Education to update the curriculum for Office Technology and Management Programmes. Government should supply modern digital technologies that will bring efficient and effective teaching/learning and this will fill the skills gap and make the graduates to overcome the challenges in the labour market or be self-employed. Government should also encourage Colleges of Education by providing stable power supply and adequate training should be given to lecturers/teachers through seminars, conferences and workshop to update their knowledge on modern digital teaching/learning resources.
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