Abstract
This study investigated the perception of economics undergraduate on non-usage of university's ICT platform in teaching economics at the University of Ilorin. Descriptive research of survey type was adopted in this study. The population of this study consists of all Economics undergraduate in the departments of Economic and Economics Education (of the social sciences education department) which is estimated at 937 students. A sample of 278 respondents was drawn randomly in this study. A Researcher’s Designed questionnaire with psychometric properties of content validity and 0.71r was used to elicit the needed. Data collected were analysed with descriptive statistics of frequency counts, percentages, means and standard deviation while the hypotheses formulated were tested using inferential statistics of t-test and ANOVA at 0.05 alpha level. The study revealed that lecturer’s philosophy, lack of appropriate skills, incompatible classroom environment, limited lecture hours and non-satisfaction with ICT results, among others are perceived as reasons for non-usage of ICT platforms for teaching economics. The study, therefore, recommended that the use of visual Google classroom at all levels of the teaching by the university administration should be encouraged. Keywords: Perception, Reasons, ICT Platforms and Non-Usage.
Highlights
The emergence of technologies for learning, conversation media and smart interface, Open Educational Resources and increased awareness of “New Generation” have been demanding traditional education and learning systems to be more open, flexible, and customized to what students want to expect
Research Question One: What is the perception of economics undergraduate on non-usage of university’s
Lack of awareness of economic lecturers about available ICT platforms in the university contributes to non-usage of ICT platform for teaching
Summary
The emergence of technologies for learning, conversation media and smart interface, Open Educational Resources (or Massively Open Online Courses) and increased awareness of “New Generation” have been demanding traditional education and learning systems to be more open, flexible, and customized to what students want to expect. Using ICT in education has been widely accepted as an effective way of challenging such changes attributed to technological advances, societal paradigm shift, and internationalization It is based on the strong belief that the potential of ICT would bring positive impacts to teaching and learning by providing students and teachers with flexibility, accessibility, more opportunities for participation and collaboration, and more outcomes. It is in response to this that the University of Ilorin under the leadership of Professor Abdulganiyu Ambali, decided to make available to all students of the instruction for four years a tablet This is considered to be very portable, internet access and subscribe to the Google Apps platform where both lecturers and students are accommodated to effectively carry out their teaching and learning the process. One question anybody will ask today is how well are lecturers exploring this platform to teach their students?
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