Assessment of Full-Scale Adoption of ICT in Post Covid-19 Era for Effective Teaching and Learning in Universities in Bayelsa State

Abstract

This study investigated assessment of full-scale adoption of ICT in post Covid-19 era for effective teaching and learning in universities in Bayelsa State. Two research questions and two hypotheses were used. Descriptive survey design was used. The population of this study consisted 362 teaching staff from NDU and 128 teaching staff from FUT, Otuoke, making a total of 980 academic staff of the universities in Bayelsa State. A sample size of 490 teaching staff of the Universities representing 50% of the population served as respondents. A 12 item questionnaire titled “Assessment of Full-Scale Adoption of ICT for Effective Teaching and Learning Questionnaire (AFSAICTETLQ).” was used for data collection. A test re-test was used to ascertain a reliability coefficient of 0.83. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions, while z-test statistics was employed to test the hypotheses. The result among others revealed that, the level of ICT adoption in universities in Bayelsa State has not reached the extent of competing favorably with the rest of the world in post Covid-19 era on application of ICT in communication, administrative processes and teaching-learning. It was recommended that government in collaboration with the management of tertiary institutions should introduce platforms for compulsory e-learning usage by providing necessary facilities/infrastructures and investing in the training of teaching personnel to smoothly handles the programmes.