The paper examined awareness and use of Open Educational Resources by academic staff in Federal College of Education Technical Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria. Three research questions guided this study. The researchers adopted a descriptive survey design. The population of the study comprised all 73 academic staff of Federal College of Education Technical, Asaba. No sampling was done as the entire population was used for the study. An online questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. The questionnaire was validated by educational technology experts. Cronbach Alpha was used to establish the reliability of the instrument which yielded .71 on Awareness and .77 on Usage of OER. Data were analyzed with frequency count, simple percentages, and mean. The findings revealed that academic staff had a high level of awareness of the concept of open educational resources and a high level of utilization of the various types of OER. It was also established that poor electricity supply, poor internet connectivity, lack of library sensitization on the use of OER, and lack of access to computers/laptops were some of the challenges to the effective use of OER. Based on the findings, the researchers recommended among others that the school management should improve on electricity supply, provide adequate internet facilities for academic staff to fully utilize quality OER and that academic libraries and lecturers should also help in promoting the use of OER among the students.
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Awareness and use of Open Educational Resources by Academic Staff of Federal College of Education Technical Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria
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Ogunbodede, Kolawole Francis; Nwachokor, Isioma Maureen; Aminikpo, Richard Ndike
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Rivers State University Journal of Education
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