ICT Resource Utilization, Availability and Accessibility by Teacher Educators for Instructional Development in College of Education katsina- Ala

Abstract

This study investigated the utilization of ICT in the instructional mix by teacher educators in College of Education (COE) Katsina-Ala, Benue state , Nigeria.  A total of forty COE Katsina-Ala teacher educators from 5 schools randomly selected formed the sample size from a population of 287. The researchers adopted the Ex post Facto research design and formulated two research questions to guide in the study. A researcher made instrument tagged Information and Communication Technology Questionnaire (ICTRQ )was used for data collection. The reliability co-efficient of the instrument was 0.71, which was used for data collected. The data was subjected for analyses using frequencies and percentages. The findings revealed that ICT resources were not available and for that reason, teacher educators could not access them for instructional development purposes. Based on these, it was recommended that the college authority should avail teacher educators in the institution with ICT resources and sponsor them on training and retraining programmes to produce ICT compliant products.

Keywords: ICT; Teacher Educators; Utilization; Availability; Accessibility.