Assessment of E-Learning Facilities for Teacher Education Programmes among Colleges of Education in Kwara State, Nigeria
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https://doi.org/10.64348/zije.202598Keywords:
Managing e-learning instruction facilities, stakeholders and goal achievementAbstract
The quality of teachers produced in colleges of education has direct impact on achieving the goals of education in all level. This study, therefore, examined the management of e-learning instructional facilities for goal achievement of teacher education among the colleges of education in Kwara State. This study is a descriptive survey and guided with four objectives. Four research questions were raised and one null hypothesis was generated and tested at 0.05 significance level. 271 respondents were sampled for the study. The instruments for collection of data were developed and tagged ‘MEIQ’ and ‘GAQ’. 0.73 and 0.72 were obtained as reliability scores. The findings were that: available e-learning instructional facilities in the study area were below average in provision and maintenance with mean score of 1.32 and 1.22; stakeholders’ involvement in maintaining facilities is low with 1.21 mean score; goal achievement of the colleges of education in the study area is on average with the mean score 2.78; and relationship exist between inclusiveness in managing e-learning instructional facilities and goal achievement of teacher education (r= 0-.64; p-value 0.01 < 0.05 sig). Hence, the study concludes that joint management among the stakeholders of e-learning instructional facilities in terms of provision and maintenance is imperative for achieving the set goals of teacher education. It is therefore recommended among others that management of colleges of education should incorporate students and host communities for managing available facilities.
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