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Article Title: Level of Availability and Utilization of ICT Facilities in Teaching and Learning of OTM in Polytechnics of South Eastern States in Nigeria
by Emeasoba Nneka Charity and Nweke Onyeka. M.

Abstract:
This study was undertaken to assess level of availability and utilization of ICT facilities in teaching and learning of OTM in Polytechnics of South Eastern States, Nigeria. The study adopted a survey design. Five research questions guided the study while two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population for the study consisted of 88 OTM Lecturers. A validated questionnaire containing 65 items was used for data collection. The arithmetic mean and standard deviation were used to analyze data in the research questions while the t-test was used to test the hypotheses. It was found that ICT facilities for teaching OTM courses are available at low extent. The computer facilities, telecommunication facilities, multimedia facilities and internet facilities were utilized at low extent. There was no significant difference between the mean ratings of male and female polytechnic OTM lecturers on their extent of computer facilities utilization and a significant difference in the mean rating of polytechnic OTM lecturers in rural and urban location on the extent of telecommunication facilities utilization in teaching OTM courses. It was concluded, based on the findings of the study that ICT for implementation of OTM programme in polytechnic of south eastern states, Nigeria are available and utilized at low extent. The implication of this study is that the ICT facilities should be made available and respondents need re-training to acquire relevant ICT skills in order to inculcate them in their students. It was recommended, among other things, that there should be frequent training and retraining programmes in ICT facilities, NBTE should set utilization standard of ICT facilities, in order to check mate the competency level of OTM lecturers in teaching with these facilities, Business teacher programme should be restructured in line with ICT needs of employers of business education graduate which polytechnic OTM department is one.

Keywords: Information and Communication Technology, Office Technology and Management, Teaching and Learning, Availability and Utilization

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