International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume VI, Issue VII, July 2022 | ISSN 2454–6186
William, Kayode, BSc.1, Soyemi, O. D., Ph.D. 1, Ajagunna, Adedayo E. BSc. 1, Isaruk, Ikpoko-Ore-Ebirien Dike.2*
1Department of Information Resources Management
Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria.
2Lecturer, School of Health Information Management
Rivers State College of Health Science and Management Technology
Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
*Corresponding Author
Abstract: The quality of teaching being imparted to students is supposed to be of high quality and effective in this information superhighway age. Teaching effectiveness typified with teaching methodologies, classroom management, assessment procedures and content knowledge is of great unease to any tertiary education institution since it furthers the productivity of the institution. In tertiary institutions, like public polytechnics in Ekiti and Ondo states, teaching effectiveness seems to be of poor quality because of students’ low capacity to analytically think, poor lecturers proficiency. Educational mobile apps use can further the teaching effectiveness in any institution of higher learning. Therefore, this study investigated the influence of educational mobile apps use on teaching effectiveness of lecturers in public polytechnics in Ekiti and Ondo States, Nigeria.
The study used survey research design. The population of the study consisted of 116 lecturers and 1,978 students in the three public polytechnics in Ekiti and Ondo states. The lecturers were all enumerated to participate, while Taro Yamane was used to select 333 students’ participants and multistage sampling was used to select the participants from the various faculties, departments and levels. A self-structured validated, and reliable questionnaire was used to gather data. The data collected were analyzed with the use of descriptive statistics, and linear regression.
Findings showed that the most used educational mobile apps was Google Apps for education (GAFE) with a mean score of (x̅=1.64).The result also indicated that there was a weak positive but not significant influence of educational mobile apps use on the teaching effectiveness in public polytechnics in Ekiti and Ondo State, (β=0.027, t = 0.270, p-value>0.05).
The study concluded that educational mobile apps use contributes to teaching effectiveness of lecturers in public polytechnics in Ekiti and Ondo states, Nigeria. It was therefore recommended that the government of Nigeria, through the ministry in charge of education, and National Board for Technical Examinations (NBTE) should carry out continuous awareness program and training for lecturers in public polytechnics on the use of educational mobile apps.
Key Words: Educational Mobile Apps, lecturers, Teaching Effectiveness. Ekiti, Ondo States.
I. INTRODUCTION
Nations across the globe struggles towards improving the value of the teaching in their tertiary education institutions of learning. Lecturers are a very important elements in any tertiary institution of learning including public polytechnics. All over the world, lecturers carry out some major activities which involves; teaching, students’ academic improvement, enhancement of the development of society (1). In the opinion of (2) teaching is the act of a teacher playing a role of building the students interests towards a course or subject and making them useful in their daily lives. Looking at teaching from the perspective of Nigerian public polytechnics, (3) noted that polytechnic teaching is the form of education set up by the government to cater for the training of professional character in the middle level cadre with more attention placed on the physical and applied sciences, and lesser attention on the business and trade sector.