The Reality of the Use For Educational aids and it is Importance from the point of view for the lecturers in the Faculty of Agriculture and Forest /University of Mosul

Abstract

The present study aims to identify the level of using audio visual aids for teaching in Agriculture Faculty/ Mosul University and to determine the importance of the education methods and the educational tools utilized by the selected lecturers. The sample undergone for this study is 299 lecturers chosen randomly from 11 scientific departments at Mosul University. Accordingly, a questionnaire of four parts is designed to obtain the data for analysis. The results show that about 62.68% of teaching staff have used the audio visuals aids in their teaching methods and using educational computers come at the first. On the other hand, the graphic organizers and the audio-visual tools are very important, from the lecturers’ point of view, in teaching. The study also reveals some difficulties that the lecturers may encounter throughout using those aids. Moreover, this study shows that there are no differences between the users on one hand and their sex, education level and experience on the other hand. Hence, it is recommended that the users of those aids should be undergone for intensive training courses and workshops to enable them using these aids beside training them for advanced technology.