Determining the Attitudes of Biology Lecturers towards the Use of Learning Management System for Instructional Delivery in North-Eastern Nigerian Public Universities.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of biology lecturers towards the use of learning management system for instructional delivery in north-eastern Nigerian public universities. Survey design was adopted for the study, Stratified random sampling technique was used to classify fourteen public universities into six states and simple random sampling was used to select six public universities, one from each state in the area of the study. A questionnaire titled attitudes of biology lecturers towards the use of learning management system for instructional delivery in north-eastern Nigerian public universities (ABLTLMS) were used as instruments for data collection.  The ABLTLMS was validated by three expert (Lecturers) from Science Education Department, the reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach alpha and a reliability coefficient of 0.92 was obtained. Data collected were analyzed by using mean and standard deviation and the hypotheses were tested using independent t-test where P is at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that Biology lecturers have positive attitudes towards the use of Learning Management System for instructional delivery. The study recommended that; the universities should subscribe for more Learning Management System facilities, support the biology lecturers to maintain their positive attitudes towards use of Learning Management System.