Gender, Institutional and Location Difference in the Perceived Usefulness and Ease of Use of Internet of Things as Instructional Tool among TVET Educators in Rivers and Bayelsa States, Nigeria
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https://doi.org/10.63996/njte.v25i2.88Keywords:
Internet of Things, IoTs, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, demographic characteristics, TVET teachers, TVET teacher educatorsAbstract
Technology plays important role of enhancing teaching and learning in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). Achieving this goal depends on TVET educators’ utilization of these technologies. However, utilization of these technologies is a function of the perception of these TVET educators. The present study investigated influence of selected demographic characteristic (gender, institutional type and location) on perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of Internet of Things (IoTs) among TVET teachers and TVET teacher educators in Rivers and Bayelsa states within South-South Nigeria. The study adopted an ex post facto research design. The study participants included 149 TVET educators from Rivers and Bayelsa States in South-South Nigeria obtained through convenience and snowball sampling technique. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire administered electronically through Google Forms. Descriptive (mean) and inferential statistics (t-test and one way analysis of variance) were used to analyse data. The results of the study showed that there was no significant gender, institutional type and location difference in the perceive usefulness and ease of use of IoTs as instructional tool among TVET educators in Bayelsa and Rivers States. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that TVET programmes and professional bodies such as TEPAN should design and implement standardized IoTs capacity-building programmes for all TVET educators, rather than developing separate interventions targeted at specific demographic groups, as this would be a more efficient use of resources.
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