Abstract
E-learning technologies are necessary to meet the challenges of the contemporary world education competitiveness in scientific and technological advancement. This study investigated the Availability and utilization of e-learning technologies in teaching agricultural science in senior schools in Ilorin South L.G.A, Kwara State. 60 Agricultural science teachers participated in the study. A researcher-developed forty-five-items questionnaire was used to collect data. Four research questions and two research hypotheses guided the conduct of the study. Data were analyzed using frequency, mean, standard deviation and t-test. Results show that some of the listed e-learning technologies were available for teaching agricultural science in senior schools to a high extent. Some of these include printers, tablets and laptop computers while some like public address system, projectors, interactive whiteboards among others are not available. Results also, revealed that agricultural science teachers use e-learning technologies to a moderate extent. The benefits of e-learning technologies as revealed by the study include for effective classroom management, makes teaching interesting and encourages individual learning among others. Challenges include: lack of functional computer laboratories, inadequate finance, irregular power supply, high cost of e-learning facilities among others. The researchers recommended (among others) that ICT training should be made compulsory for teachers and it should be subsidized by governments, government should incorporate e-learning education into school syllabus, there should be an alternative source of power supply in E-learning libraries in schools. DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-16-01 Publication date: June 30 th 2021
Highlights
The rapid development in technology has made great change in the way we live and the social and educational demand of the society
The p-value is greater than the alpha 0.05 alpha level, hypothesis one was not rejected. It means there is no significant difference in the perception of challenges facing agricultural science teachers in the utilization of E
The p-value is greater than the alpha 0.05 alpha level, hypothesis two was not rejected
Summary
The rapid development in technology has made great change in the way we live and the social and educational demand of the society. Information and communication technology has totally impacted its benefits on every society as the highest change agent of human development. Okenwa (2010) defined ICT as the integration of computer technology mainly in the form of internet and information management to help the users organize, process, analyze, store and retrieve information for use when desired. It entails utilization of communication devices such as cellular phones, radio, computer network, hardware, software, satellite systems as well as various applications associated with them. Advancement in the use of ICT has brought improvement in political, social, economic and educational sector of the nation (Aneke and Udensi, 2017)
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