Abstract:
This study sought to determine utilization of computer assisted instruction (CAI)by computer education lecturers for effective teaching and learning in Colleges of Education in South East Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. Five research questions and five null hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study consisted of all the 64 computer education lecturers in South East zone of Nigeria. There was no sampling since the entire population of the study was used. A 50 item questionnaire titled, utilization of computer assisted instruction by computer education lecturers (UCAICE) for effective teaching and learning in Colleges of Education was used for data collection for the study. The realiability of the instrument yielded .85, .84, .82, .87 and .82 for all the five clusters using Cronbach alpha formular. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation while one-way ANOVA was used to test the null hypotheses 1 – 4 and t – test statistic used to test null hypothesis 5 at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of this study showed that computer education lecturers utilize CAI in the instructional planning and preparation, delivery as well as in instructional evaluation processes. However, the study found that computer education lecturers were faced with daunting challenges towards the application and utilization of CAI classroom teaching and learning process such as inadequate instructional material, inadequate ICT skills, shortage of resources among others. It was discovered that there is no significant difference in the mean responses of computer education lecturers in Colleges of Education in South East Nigeria. The study concluded with the recommendation that Nigeria Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) should consider a review of Computer Education Programme with a view to incorporating capacity building programmes into the teaching of Computer Education. Workshops and seminars should be organized by NCCE in collaboration with the ministry of education to enlighten institution administrators on the need to organize retraining programmes for the Computer Education lecturers on a regular basis so as to assist them develop their desired competencies in teaching and learning.
