Integration of Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Learning of Physics in Colleges of Education in Enugu State for Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract

In this study, the researchers investigated the Integration of Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Learning of Physics in Colleges of education in Enugu State. The study area comprised all the eight (8) accredited public and private Colleges of Education in Enugu state. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. No sampling was involved due to the manageable size of the population (30 physics lecturers: 21 males and 9 females). Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire. The researchers administered the Instrument to Physics lecturers in the Colleges of Education, the responses were collected and Cronbach Alpha statistics was employed to compute the internal consistency estimate of the items. The reliability coefficient obtained was 0.96. Research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was employed in testing the hypotheses at p< 0.05. The results of the study indicated that the clever boards and multimedia projectors are fairly utilized for teaching and learning of Physics in Colleges of Education in Enugu State. It was also shown that gender had no significant influence on the lecturer‟s proficiency in utilizing ICT tools in teaching and learning of Physics in Colleges of Education in Enugu State. It was recommended that lecturers in the teacher education institutions in the state should make up their minds to embrace and harness the new learning ICT tools brought by the emerging technologies for improving teaching and learning outcomes.