Nigerian Lecturers Research Articles

Proficiency of University Lecturers in the Adoption of Emerging Instructional Technologies in Nigeria

The purpose of this study was to assess the Proficiency of University Lecturers in the Adoption of Emerging Instructional Technologies in Nigeria. The study employed the descriptive/qualitative research design. A Google forms questionnaire made of close-ended items was used to collect data related to Nigerian university lecturers’ proficiency in the adoption of emerging instructional technologies. Descriptive statistics including mean and standard deviation were used to describe the status of lecturers. SPSS version 25 was used to run the collected data from respondent university lecturers. A total of 123 responses were recorded and it was discovered that the awareness of emerging instructional technologies by Nigerian lecturers is on the rise, meaning they are quite much aware of emerging teaching technologies as today, lecturers’ use of emerging teaching technologies is still quite low in Nigeria, lecturers’ proficiency in using emerging teaching technologies is just normal or average and therefore needs to be improved. It is therefore recommended that lecturers should make an extra deliberate effort to know what is new in the teaching profession as per new instructional technologies. School managements should as a matter of urgency encourage the use of emerging teaching technologies in Nigeria and old lecturers are advised to go for short courses on ICT.

Scholarly research outputs and vulnerability of Nigerian lecturers to predatory journals

Scholarly research outputs and vulnerability of Nigerian lecturers to predatory journals

Scholarly research outputs and vulnerability of Nigerian lecturers to predatory journals

Scholarly research outputs and vulnerability of Nigerian lecturers to predatory journals

Trajectory of brain-drain and quality of work-life amongst Nigeria’s university lecturers: academic staff union of universities (ASUU) incessant strike in retrospect

PurposeBrain-drain insurgency has become pervasive amongst professionals and the last option for everyone in the country to realise a sustainable quality of work-life (QWL). All youths now in the country have perceived migrating to the international workspace as a noble idea. This study investigates the incidence of brain-drain and QWL amongst academics in Nigerian universities.Design/methodology/approachTo sparkle a clearer understanding concerning factors preventing the QWL amongst Nigeria's lecturers, this study utilised a cross-sectional research design to survey the participants across all departments in federal institutions through an explanatory research approach. This study applied an array of adapted scales to evaluate members of academic staff track of what provoked the incidence of brain-drain amongst Nigerian lecturers and possible influence on their QWL. The study surveyed 431 members of academic staff in Nigerian universities to collect useful data and employed a structural equation model (SEM) to analyse the obtained data.FindingsThe outcome of this study highlights that there is a horrible condition of service amongst Nigerian lecturers, a poor compensation system, poor academic research funding and lack of autonomy are bane to the QWL experienced in Nigerian tertiary institutions today. This study indicates that poor staff development and inadequate university funding are part of the justification that provoked brain-drain insurgence, and allowed the government to lose their skilled and competent egg-heads in the university to other foreign nations of the world.Originality/valueThis study demonstrated that brain-drain has become part of Nigeria's national life given that all professionals are seeking better life where their skills, competence and energy would be valued. Brain-drain was not common until these days amongst academics and fewer studies were noted but this study showed a novel paradigm regarding the QWL and brain-drain trajectory.

Scholarly Research Outputs and Vulnerability of Nigerian Lecturers to Predatory Journals

This study investigated scholarly research outputs and vulnerability of Nigerian lecturers to predatory journals. Five objectives were formulated to guide the study. A descriptive survey research design was adopted using the online Google Form to collect data/responses from lecturers across board in Nigeria. The population of the study comprised lecturers in Nigeria. The sampling technique used for the study was the total enumeration sampling technique (107) as the whole responses were analysed using frequencies, percentages, mean and standard deviation for easy appreciation and comprehension, with the aid of SPSS Version 23. It was found out that: The research outputs by Nigerian lecturers appear to be a little bit low, Nigerian lecturers obviously know the reputable journals that are available, many Nigerian authors and writers do not publish in high reputable journals, some of the challenges recorded are high cost/finance, problem of delayed review process, high rejection rate by reputable journal and rigorous online submission process. Also, the idea of compulsorily publishing in high impact journals rather than focus on the quality of the research output, before promoting lecturers is misplaced and should be reviewed. Recommendations were made in line with the findings of the study.

Motivators and Inhibitors of Green Building Technology Integration and Advancement: Nigerian Lecturers’ perspective

The potentials of green building technology (GBT) and sustainable constructions are the major reasons for its integration, advancement and adoption in developed countries. Yet, developing countries have not found the motivation to integrate GBTs, and transit to sustainable constructions, which suggests perceived inhibiting forces. This study investigated the perception of tertiary institution lecturers on the motivators and inhibitors of GBT integration and advancement in Nigeria. An empirical questionnaire survey of 163 lecturers from construction and environmental science related courses in 24 tertiary institutions provided data for the analysis. The analysis results ranked “efficiency in construction processes and management practices,” that is capable of reducing waste, as the major motivator for GBT integration; “lack of government support for GBTs” was the main inhibitor perceived. The Kendall’s coefficient of concordance confirmed concession in rankings, and Kruskal Wallis H test showed that although 7 motivator items, and 8 inhibitor items, were significant, there was no significant difference in the overall lecturers’ perception of the motivators and inhibitors of GBTs. As guides to knowledge, research and development, lecturers in environmental related courses should spur interest in GBTs, so as to raise awareness, enhance integration and advancement of GBT. Moving forward requires government to go beyond formulating sustainable construction policy to create GBT funding schemes, and initiate a proven GBT project as a roadmap to facilitate the integration and advancement, and as well, protect the interest of potential investors.

THE IMPACT OF TETFUND FUNDING ON THE SCHOLASTIC COMMITMENTS OF NIGERIAN LECTURERS

Education represents a vital tool for human and national development in the modern-day world. Perhaps, the tertiary institutions are the drivers of modern knowledge across the globe, hence, the need for continuous improvement of the higher education sector for quality knowledge. The involvement of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund in lifting the faces of tertiary education in Nigeria is yielding significant progress in attaining its purposes. The primary purpose of the present study was to investigate the impact of Tetfund grants on the academic commitment of Nigerian lecturers in pedagogical and research development. Eighty-three academic lecturers randomly selected from different tertiary institutions in Kogi State, Nigeria, participated in the study. The data for the study was collected using a self-developed instrument designed to ascertain the role of Tetfunds funding on the lecturers motivation and commitment to teaching and research. The finding of the simple regression analysis conducted revealed that Tetfund funding statistically significantly accounted for the variation in scholastic commitments of the lecturers. The study concludes that Tetfund grants are crucial in the development of quality education in Nigerias academia.

Perception of Nigerian Lecturers on Usefulness, Ease of Use and Adequacy of Use of Digital Technologies for Research Based on University Ownership

This paper investigated the perception of Nigerian lecturers on usefulness, ease of use and adequacy of use of digital technologies for research based on university ownership. The use of digital technologies for research in the 21st century for ease and access of information cannot be underscored irrespective of lecturers’ university ownership. The study was descriptive of survey type using structured questionnaire to elicit response from the respondents. A total of 742 respondents were drawn purposively from 13 public comprising state and federal universities in South-west, Nigeria. The research instrument was validated by 3 educational technologists and the reliability indices of r=0.92, 0.85 and 0.83 using Cronbach Alpha was attained on perceived usefulness, ease of use and adequacy of use of digital technologies respectively for research at 0.05 level of significance. Frequency counts, means and percentages were used to answer research questions 1-3, while 3 research hypotheses were tested using independent t-test statistical instrument. The finding revealed that lecturers in the federal government owned universities exemplified high perception on the usefulness and ease of use of digital technologies. However, lecturers from state government owned universities perceived adequacy of use of digital technologies for accomplishing research task effectively with minimum error. The study among others provision of institutional support, procurement of needed digital technologies and internet facilities, seminars, workshops and trainings to all university lecturers on usefulness, ease of use of newer digital technologies and skills to possess in accomplishing research task effectively with minimum error; irrespective of university ownership.

Awareness, anchor and adjustment factors in the use of institutional repositories by Nigerian lecturers

Institutional repositories have been established in universities globally because of their immense benefits to various stakeholders, especially lecturers. However, the literature has confirmed that institutional repositories are little used by lecturers. Previous studies have examined attitudes and disciplines, for example, but there seems to be no study on anchor and adjustment factors. This study therefore investigated awareness and anchor and adjustment factors as determinants of use of institutional repositories by lecturers in Nigeria. A descriptive survey and a purposive sampling technique were used to select universities that had had functional institutional repositories for at least four years at the time of data collection. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 857 lecturers. The study reveals that awareness and anchor and adjustment factors are determinants of use of institutional repositories by lecturers in Nigerian universities. The study recommends that more awareness programmes should be organized by libraries and that lecturers should constantly use computers to improve their computer self-efficacy and computer playfulness.

Redefining Immediacy for Email Satisfactory Communication: South-East Nigerian Lecturers’ Perspectives

<p><em><span>Notwithstanding the empirical evidence that Nigerian academic staff utilized email as one of asynchronous virtual communications, recent studies pointed that low productivities were still witnessed by them due to email inability of giving them timely responses as viable means of communication. Therefore, this study was necessitated for redefining immediacy effects towards reaching email satisfactory communication among South-East Nigerian academic staff. Qualitative investigative study via case study was conducted towards soliciting their views on how to redefine immediacy for email satisfactory communication. The major findings of the study demonstrated that effective internet availability and affordable subscriptions, homophilous patterns of communications, content structure strategy, enhancing regularly email checking awareness, and power supply availability were the immediate remedies for achieving email satisfactory communication. The study eventually recommended that these factors should be taken into considerations by them towards attaining email satisfactory communication and in other asynchronous virtual communication mediums.</span></em></p>

Computer Based Technology (CBT) Assessment implementation in a Nigerian Higher Institution and a Lecturer’s Work Stories: Implication for E-Counselling

<p class="0tablecaption"> Computer based Technology (CBT) assessment is a new practice in the conduct of examinations in Nigeria but it has its problems. Many societies have accepted information technology as the way the world is moving, therefore this study aimed at investigating Lecturers perception of innovative computer based assessment format in a Nigerian College of Education. Participants included 200 lecturers, 120 male and 80 female. The age range was between 30 and 64 years. They were randomly selected purposively from five schools in a college of Education in Nigeria. The design adopted was a cross-stage mixed-model design. Oral interview, structured questionnaire and focus group discussions were used to collect data. Measured accessibility variable showed that 98% of lecturers have access to computer. However results on the knowledge requirements and usage variable revealed that many lecturers do not have adequate ability level in the use of computer especially the chief lecturers and older lecturers. The most challenging aspect of CBT assessment was found to be the Authoring Manager in transporting the questions to Qpack. The findings of this study has implications for E-Counselling and attitudinal change. Most Nigerian lecturers’ ability in the usage of computer is very low even though most of them have access to computers. This could be linked to their attitude and perception towards the innovative CBT assessment which is that it is not necessary and should be discouraged. This calls for E-Counselling with emphasis on CBT assessment for optimal service delivery and international best practices in Nigerian higher institutions.</p>

Awareness and Usage of Open Access among University Lecturers in Nigeria

The study examined the level of awareness and usage of Open Access among lecturers in the Faculties of Arts and Education, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria. A questionnaire designed by the researchers was employed to collect data for the study. The study revealed that lecturers had high level of awareness of Open Access and used them for conducting and publishing their scholarly works; however their level of awareness of Open Access content were higher than their actual use of the contents. The study further revealed that some lecturers used some open access contents, such as, e-journals, e-dictionaries and e-encyclopedias daily, weekly, monthly and whenever the need arises while some others like e-handbooks, e-guides and e-technical reports were not used at all. It further revealed that Open Access journals were the most utilised of all the Open Access contents surveyed amongst ot her findings. Many recommendations were proffered amongst which were sensitisation of faculty about benefits, challenges and policies guiding Open Access use through information literacy training provided by academic librarians and that academic staff should made themselves available for information literacy training programmes so as to make wise and effective use of Open Access to enhance their academic status. Keywords: Awareness and Usage of Electronic Resources; Open Access Scholarly Communication, Nigerian Universities, Nigerian Lecturers’ Use of Electronic Resources; Scholarly Publishing.

Profile of Physiotherapist Educators in Anglophone West African Countries: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background: In the last two decades, physiotherapy profession in many countries has transitioned their entry-level education to a Master’s or doctoral degree levels. Given these changes, there is a new need to discern the profile of physiotherapist educators in different countries. Objectives: This cross-sectional study was designed to investigate the profile of the physiotherapist lecturers from Anglophone West African countries and to compare the data with their USA counterparts. Methods: The Head of Department of all the physiotherapy programs in West African universities (N = 14) completed a questionnaire that sought information on the University’s debut date and ownership, faculty gender, educational qualification and academic rank. Results: The vast majority (93%) of the physiotherapy programs surveyed are located in public universities. There were 126 lecturers employed in the programs surveyed (average of 9 lecturers per program). In Nigeria, 72% of the lecturers were men, but in Ghana there was an equal (50:50) split between men and women. Fifty-nine percent (59%) of the lecturers in Nigeria had a Ph.D. and 32% were with MS degree. Thirty-four percent (34%) were a Senior lecturer, 19% Lecturer I, 10% Associate Professor/Reader and 10% Professor. More Nigerian lecturers attained higher (p

Nigerian Creole as language of instruction: Will Nigerian lecturers use Nigerian Creole?

This mixed questionnaire survey sought to determine if lecturers who learned to speak and understand Nigerian Creole before English are willing to use the language as medium of instruction. The respondents were comprised of 560 lecturers and graduate students (i.e. master’s, doctoral) selected through a purposeful random sampling frame from 15 public institutions of higher learning in Nigeria. Lecturers declined to use Nigerian Creole as medium of instruction because they feared that its use might negatively affect their students’ learning of English. Graduate students indicated willingness to receive instruction through a combination of English and Nigerian Creole because they perceived the use of Nigerian Creole as fun and representative of the voice of a new generation of Nigerians. The sample reported that prior knowledge of Nigerian Creole does not facilitate the learning of English because both languages are too different to facilitate a transfer of learning.

Relationship between Head of Department Leadership Styles and Lecturers Job Satisfactions in Nigerian Public Universities

The Study, relationship between leadership styles and job satisfaction among the head of department and lecturers of Nigerian public universities is definitely a problem of an accelerating importance towards the higher learning institution within their preparation to complete their mission to become a first class university.A highly effective leadership style, along with a reliable labor force appeared to become a decisive importance for any university to have the ability to compete in quality and also to accompany the changes. At the moment, the empirical linkages between the head of department leadership styles and job satisfaction among lecturers in Nigerian public universities aren't fully established by past researchers.Therefore, it is the aim of this study to investigate the relationship between the selected independent variables; leadership styles (transformational, transactional, lasseir-faire) and job satisfaction as the dependent variables, determines the common leadership style that is commonly used by the head of the department, and determines the level of job satisfaction among the lecturers. The research design was descriptive correlational study and data were collected employing questionnaires. The study utilized simple random sampling methods to select 217 lecturers with the response rate of 91.7% from the population of Nigerian lecturers studying at three research universities in Malaysia.The findings showed that lecturers job satisfaction is high and also the descriptive statistics revealed that the most commonly used leadership styles among the head of department of Nigeria public university is transformational leadership styles, with the highest mean of 3.9032. The result obtained from the correlational analyses revealed that there is a significant relationship between leadership styles of the head of department and lecturers job satisfaction in public universities in Nigeria. The present study contributes useful information for educational leaders and researchers in the field of human resource development.

How much role conflict is there in the job of university lecturer? An international comparison

Teaching members of two South African and two Nigerian universities were asked to rate the importance of four roles in their jobs; teaching, administration, research, and character building of students. The Nigerian lecturers rated teaching and character building as more important than did the South African lecturers, who rated research as more important than did the Nigerian lecturers. In both countries the emphasis on research was positively related to the prestige and size of the university; while that on teaching and character building was greater in both countries among lecturers in the humanities than among those in the natural sciences. The results are interpreted in the light of the growing conflict faced by lecturers between the research role (to secure promotion, tenure, and salary increments) and the teaching and character development roles (to satisfy students).