Assessing OTM Lecturers’ Competencies in the Utilization of Website and Database Technologies for Electronic Records Management in Polytechnics in South-East Nigeria (Published)
The study assessed the competencies of Polytechnic office technology and management lecturers in the utilization of websites records and database records management Technologies in Polytechnics in South East-States Nigeria. Two research questions were answered and two hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. A total of 114 OTM lecturers in the eight government owned polytechnics (federal and state) in the South-East states of Nigeria made up the population of the study, and the population formed the sample for the study. The research instrument was a structured questionnaire comprising 25 items arranged in two clusters in line with the research questions. The instrument was validated by three experts and was used to collect data. Test of reliability on the instrument using Cronbach Alpha yielded coefficients of .849, .796, for clusters 1 and 2 respectively with general reliability co-efficiency of 0.85. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze data relating to the research questions while t-test was used for testing the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Major findings included that majority of the polytechnic OTM lecturers in the South-East Nigeria utilized, at a high level, competencies in website records management technologies and competencies in database records management technologies. Again, they did not differ in their opinions on their level of competencies in the utilization of website records management technologies and competencies in database records management technologies. Based on these findings, the researcher recommended among others that OTM lecturers should engage in continuous professional development by enrolling in online certifications (e.g, Google Workspace), attending webinars and workshops on digital records and data management. OTM lecturers should collaborate and share knowledge from peer learning groups to share skills and solve real records management challenges together, especially in managing word processing records, and electronic mail records.
Keywords: Competencies, database records management, office technology and management, technologies, websites records
Foreign Language Teaching/Learning Under the Influence of New Didactic Factors (Published)
The teaching/learning of foreign languages is now under the influence of technologies of information as in every field of life. Didactic materials are increasingly digitized and we have passed the period of connectivism in the teaching field (David Villacres. 2016). It is claimed that the new technologies in this field have made the teaching and learning process more efficient, simpler, easier and faster, but what prompted us to take a closer look is exactly which aspect of teaching of a foreign language, reading and writing skills, these characteristics of the use of TICE affect more or if it has the same impact in all of them. For the purpose of this study, the results of two groups of first-year bachelor students of the faculty of foreign languages who study French as a second foreign language were analyzed. The groups have an equal number of students and in the A level in French. Group 1 is defined as the group where “classical” teaching is applied where TICE is not used and group 2 where TICE is the main basis of the didactic tools used. Their results were analyzed in terms of reanding and writing skills, acquisition of grammar rules as well as active participation in class. The statistical method spss and googleforms were used for data processing. In data results, it was found that the use of TICE in the classroom has a greater impact on active participation in the classroom. Also, from their answers, it was noticed that the methodology used is not essential for their success, but rather the role of the teacher in this process.
Keywords: TICE, didactic materials, foreign languages, teaching-learning, technologies