Investigation into the Utilization of ICT Facilities for Teaching Purposes among University Lecturers: Influence of Gender, Age, Qualification and Years of Teaching Experience

Abstract

This study investigates lecturers' level of utilization of ICT facilities for teaching purposes in Nigerian universities. A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. And a questionnaire with a reliability of 0.907 was used for data collection. Data was collected at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi from a sample of 433 lecturers out of a population of 928. The results show that lecturers have the knowledge of using ICT facilities in teaching, however, they rarely use them in teaching. It was also found that lecturers' age and years of teaching experiences were significant factors influencing the level of ICT utilization in teaching. However, no significant difference was found due to gender and educational qualification. It was recommended among others that there should be regular sensitization programmes on the importance of using ICT facilities as it promotes students' learning and enhance their academic achievement.

Interactive Digital Media Based on Our-Space Website in Geography Learning : ICT, Media Skills, and Learning Styles

“…The success of ICT in education depends heavily on the digital competencies teachers acquire, their professional development, and the training provided to teachers (Yushau & Nannim, 2020). Among all these conditions are teachers' attitudes towards ICT, ICT skills, and training in relation to utilizing IT-based multimedia in the current educational environment.…”

“…It is necessary to consider the tools applied in the classroom and teachers' experiences, habits, knowledge, and difficulties in applying learning technology. The following are the results of the identification of the teaching experience of geography teacher groups in Surakarta City and Karanganyar Regency: Source: Adopted from (Gutiérrez Martín et al, 2022); (Yusrizal et al, 2019); (Topchyan & Woehler, 2021); (Brooks, 2021); (Yushau & Nannim, 2020) and modified by the author.…”

“…The way teachers teach and how they handle the classroom does influence and improve student learning. Consequently, this adds up to an overall positive improvement in the quality of education and learning (Yushau & Nannim, 2020). Therefore, teachers with excellent school facilities should be able to improve their teaching, especially in learning technology innovation, to make it easier for students to understand the material in the learning process (Thuan & Liu, 2018;Dawabsheh et al, 2020).…”

Dynamic characteristics of students’ communicative behavior in social networks

“…Communicative processes obviously and actively move to cyberspace (Owan, Ekpe & Eneje, 2020). Сyberspace represents the virtual social field of human life represented within the interaction of a computer, networks and a person; the appearance of cyberspace is caused by the set of the IT industry manifestations, creating new technologies of interpersonal interaction (Baryshev, 2008;Shaidullina et al, 2015;Minakhmetova et al, 2017;Sudakova et al, 2017;Mukhametshin et al, 2019;Razumovskaya et al, 2018Razumovskaya et al, , 2019Nurieva & Inozemtseva, 2020;Gimaliev et al, 2020;Yushau & Nannim, 2020;Valeeva, Baykova & Kusainov, 2016;Privalova et al, 2019). The main characteristics of cyberspace are coherence and informational content completeness, sociality -fullness of people images, which are supported by texts, video and audio information, images (Galiullina, 2018;Levina et al, 2019;Orekhovskaya et al, 2019;Khairullina et al, 2020).…”

Accessibility of Google Classroom by Undergraduates for Learning

“…Different results have been provided by diffeent scholars on the influence of gender on the use of an instructional resources such as google classroom. Islahi & Nasrin, (2018) found out that there is no significance difference in individual's use of information technology in relation to their gender while Yushau & Nannim, (2020) reported that there is a significant difference in male and females use of ICT facilities. It is normal to have different results as people's opinion varies from place to place due to difference in cultural background, political laws etc.…”