Staff Support services and Digital Education in Nigeria: A Survey of Selected School Teachers in Abuja

KALU, Ntite Orji. Staff Support services and Digital Education in Nigeria: A Survey of Selected School Teachers in Abuja. Online. In George Ubachs, Stefan Meuleman, Alessandra Antonaci. Proceedings of the Innovating Higher Education Conference 2021. Maastricht, The Netherlands: European Association of Distance Teaching Universities, 2021, s. 280-291. ISBN 978-90-79730-48-3.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: Staff Support services and Digital Education in Nigeria: A Survey of Selected School Teachers in Abuja
• Autoři: KALU, Ntite Orji.
• Vydání: Maastricht, The Netherlands, Proceedings of the Innovating Higher Education Conference 2021, od s. 280-291, 12 s. 2021.
• Nakladatel: European Association of Distance Teaching Universities

Další údaje

• Originální jazyk: angličtina
• Typ výsledku: Stať ve sborníku
• Obor: 50301 Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
• Stát vydavatele: Nizozemské království
• Utajení: není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
• Forma vydání: elektronická verze "online"
• WWW: URL
• Organizační jednotka: Pedagogická fakulta
• ISBN: 978-90-79730-48-3
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Innovative learning; Covid-19 pandemic; digital education; Nigerian teachers; staff support; resources
• Příznaky: Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Anotace

The Covid-19 pandemic brought the world to a standstill with social restrictions and major changes in our learning environments. This paradigm shift in learning was a drastic step away from traditional in-person learning and an adjustment to innovative on-line learning to suit the times. This was no different in Nigeria as schools and other social institutions were shut down for the better part of the year 2020, and education was moved to the virtual classroom. In Nigeria, necessary resources for online education like access to the internet and computers is still a major challenge all over the country. Despite the lack of infrastructure at the disposal of Nigerian teachers for innovative learning, they were still mandated to carry out their lessons during this period. This research is qualitative in nature and will involve a survey carried out among teachers in Abuja given the quality of schools in this region which by standard and operations should be better than most schools in Nigeria. This research will discuss the support that teachers got during the pandemic, if any, and how much they were affected considering the economic situation in Nigeria. This paper will reflect on ways to prepare Nigeria and other developing countries for pandemics that could affect our education systems given the new variants of the COVID-19 and how unpredictable our environment has become and how Nigerian teachers can be supported to ensure that education in this region is sustainable. This paper will be a call for the evolution of the new learning space in Nigeria to enable teachers and students adapt to the new learning culture.