Development of Appropriate E-teaching Contents for Capacity Building of Technical Education Lecturers of Colleges of Education in Lagos State

Nigerian government has made a quite number of efforts to make Nigerian educational systems one of the best in the world. Some of the efforts made by government include provision of e-teaching resources, digital classrooms and laboratories and centers for effective e-teaching and networking of Nigerian universities. However, effort is less in the area of capacity building of personnel such as lecturers to effectively utilize resources provided for e-teaching in schools and colleges. Based on this reason, the researchers now carried out the study to develop appropriate e-teaching contents for capacity building of technical education lecturers of colleges of education in Lagos State. Three research questions guided the study and three null hypotheses formulated were tested at 0.05 level of significance. It is a survey research design. The population for the study was 201 subjects. The sample for the study was 201 subjects. These were purposively sampled 77 information technology specialists, 56 ICT trainers in registered industries and all the 68 lecturers of computer science and information technology in the universities in Lagos state. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection. The instrument was validated by three experts and Cronbach alpha reliability method was adopted to determine the internal consistency of the questionnaire items while 0.86 was obtained. Out of two hundred and one copies of the questionnaire administered on respondents with the help of three research assistants, only 187 copies were duly retrieved which represents 93.03 percent return rate. The data collected were analyzed using factor analysis and mean while analysis of variance was used to test the null hypotheses. The findings reveal that 22 e-teaching competencies were appropriate for capacity building of technical education lecturers, 44 instructional strategies for implementing e-teaching contents for capacity building of technical education lecturers of colleges of education while 33 training facilities and procedures that could be utilized by trainers for building the capacity of technical education lecturers of colleges of education in e-teaching were also found out. Recommendations include that technical education lecturers should be trained using the developed e-teaching contents