Abstract
With all learning institutions pre-maturely closed on March 2020 and all citizens advised to self-isolate in a bid to control the spread of COVID-19, this would negatively impacted on the educational studies. A lot of attention is paid to implementing ICT into educational process at all levels (primary, secondary, polytechnic, university, etc.). The purpose of this study is to examine the ICT competences and level of its application for Education studies in Nigerian schools in the midst of COVID-19. The paper also investigated the challenges of using ICT facilities for e-learning and teaching in the Nigerian education sector. Descriptive survey was adopted for this study. A self-designed questionnaire was used to collect the data for the study. The sample for the study is made up of 30 teachers and 40 lecturers randomly selected. Findings revealed that challenges included lack of enough computers, shortage of Internet facilities, students’ lack of access to e-learning facilities and erratic power supply (a major challenge.). The government should increase funding for the entire aspects of educational sector with emphasis on the use of ICT facilities in schools in place of face-to-face interactions. This will help improve the level of ICT competences among teachers and students. There should also be continuous and periodic training of teachers on application of computer and ICT facilities for e-learning teaching. Keywords: ICT competences, ICT facilities, e-learning teaching, educational studies DOI: 10.7176/JESD/11-16-11 Publication date: August 31 st 2020
Highlights
Education is essential for human societies; it is a fundamental leverage for social preservation and economic growth
The results of this study are presented below Research question 1: To what extent are the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) facilities available for teaching in your school? Table 1 showed that ICT facilities like computers, radio, television sets, video disc players, bullet boards were available in schools, while some facilities like projectors, electronic notice boards, internets, filmstrips are scantly available in schools
Research question 2: To what extent are teachers and students in your school exposed to using ICT facilities? Table 2 showed the extent to which the teachers and students are exposed to the use of ICT facilities in schools
Summary
Education is essential for human societies; it is a fundamental leverage for social preservation and economic growth. The way education is performed remained the same: the teacher talks and acts, while pupils listen, watch and write. Printing machines made textbooks widely available and knowledge rapidly spread; educational institutions appeared and developed all over the world. The way education was performed did not change so much and remained teacher centered. With the emergence of new technological devices for handling picture and sound, new possibilities for knowledge transmission emerged. Fast development in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is shaping a new world in which education at all levels can no longer be assimilated to a group of learners in a classroom listening and watching a teacher with a textbook following a fixed curriculum. With ICT, learning is shifting from teacher-centered to learnercentered and can potentially be undertaken anytime and anywhere, from classrooms to homes and offices
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