Awareness of Vocational and Technical Education Lecturers in Utilising the Emerging Technology Posed by Covid-19 Pandemic

Authors

  • Adeolu Oludare Olatoye Tai Solarin University of Education
  • Sarafadeen Segun Salami Al-Hikmah University
  • Rasidat Iyabo Olore Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology
  • Adeola Idiat Adepoju Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12928/joves.v5i1.5867

Keywords:

Key words: Awareness, Vocational and Technical Education, Emerging Technology, Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The study was carried out to examine the awareness of vocational and technical eduation lecturers in utilizing the emerging technology posed by Covid-19 pandemic in Oyo State Colleges of Education.  To achieve the objectives of the study, three research questions were developed and answered while two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance.  The study adopted survey research design.  The population for the study consisted of 150 lecturers.  Total enumeration sampling technique was used for this research work.  The questionnaire was faced and content validated by two experts from the Department of Business Education and one expert from Industrial Technical Education Department, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-ode.  Cronbach Alpha method was adopted to ensure reliability of the instrument with the coefficient of r=0.96.  This shows that the instrument is highly reliable.  The questionnaire was administered on 150 respondents and all were successfully retrieved.  Mean and Standard deviation were used to answer data related to research questions while t-test and ANOVA analysis were used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance.  The findings of the study revealed that awareness level of the Vocational and Technical Education lecturers on the use of available technological tools for teaching and learning is moderately high. The extent of usage of modern technological tools for teaching and learning is low compare to their awareness.  Challenges faced by Vocational and Technical Education lecturers in using modern technological tools is moderately high.  The study revealed that there is significant relationship between male and female Vocational and Technical Education lecturers on the extent of lecturers` awareness on the use of modern technological tools.  The study as well revealed that there is significant relationship between the respondents on the challenges faced by Vocational and Technical Education lecturers in using modern technological tools for teaching and learning with respect to their years of experience.  Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that government through a relevant agencies like Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) should assist in providing some adequate modern technological tools for Colleges of Education, school management should provide modern technological tools for the smooth running of teaching and learning, Seminars and Conferences on the use of modern technological tools be attended at an interval.

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2022-08-29

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