Perceived Lecturers’ Awareness on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Platforms for Teaching in Colleges of Education, Yobe State, Nigeria
Hassan Mamman, Sulaiman Jibril, Abdullahi Ismaila Abubakar, Mukailu Muhammad & Badamasi Alka
1*Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Umar Suleiman College of Education, Gashua, Yobe State, Nigeria.
2Department of Educational Foundations, Federal University of Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State, Nigeria.
3Department of Curriculum Studies, Sokoto State University, Sokoto, Nigeria
4Shehu Shagari University Sokoto, Sokoto State, Nigeria.
5Katsina State Ministry of Basic Science and Secondary Education, Katsina State, Nigeria
Abstract
The study investigated perceived lecturers’ awareness of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for teaching in colleges of education, in Yobe State, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The study was guided by two research objectives and two research questions. The study's target population was 146 lecturers from three Colleges of Education in Yobe State. A random sampling technique was used to determine the sample from the population. The sample has a total population of 121 lecturers. The sample size was obtained using the Krejcie and Morgan table for sample size. The instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire titled “Perceived lecturers, Awareness on use of artificial intelligence for teaching and learning” and validated by six experts. It was also pilot-tested at Sir Kashim Ibrahim College of Education, Maiduguri. The result of pilot testing was analyzed using Cronbach alpha and yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.593 and 0.727 respectively. Frequency count and percentage were used to analyze the demographic data, mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions and Kruskalwalli’s non-parametric tests were used in testing the null hypotheses. From the result, both null hypotheses were rejected. The study revealed that lecturers perceived that artificial intelligence is useful for teaching and learning in Colleges of Education (mean score of 3.11) and lecturers perceived artificial intelligence as easy to use in teaching and learning in Colleges of Education (mean score of 2.79). There is a significant difference in the lecturers’ level of perceived usefulness of artificial intelligence in teaching and learning based on their years of experience and it is hereby rejected (H-test = 102.399, df = 2, p = 0.000) and there is a significant difference on the lecturers’ level perceived ease of use of artificial intelligence platform in teaching and learning based on their schools (H-test = 96.829, df = 2, p = 0.000). It is therefore recommended that Governments and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) should encourage lecturers’ by organizing sensitization workshops for them, to enlighten them on the existence and importance of artificial intelligence for teaching and learning in Colleges of Education in such a way that it will make them more aware of the resourcefulness of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Keywords
Lecturers; Artificial Intelligence; Perceived Usefulness; Perceived ease of use
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