Empowering Nigeria Students with Civic Education Utilizing Audio Podcasts

Abstract

The podcast is a technology that deals with spreading of information, but developed to become a powerful instructional medium.   Despite its usefulness in learning, podcast positive impact are yet to be established.  Therefore, this paper presents the effect of audio podcasting instruction on the civic education, among the Nigeria Senior Secondary Schools students.  The relevant reviews of past studies on podcast were looked into and the results show that learning was positive with podcast.  Majority of students in respect of gender also benefited from the podcasts pedagogical.  The government should provide and assist the students with the course materials, it was recommended that civic education teachers should be encouraged to use audio podcasts to improve students’ knowledge of civic education.

Keywords:  Civics Education, Computers, Gender, Mp3, Audio Podcast.