ABSTRACT
The aim of this study was to find out the perception of teachers towards Internet as a teaching resource in Enugu State College of Education (Technical), Enugu. The work was divided into five chapters. Chapter One was the Introduction; Chapter Two reviewedthe literature; Chapter Three was the Research Methodology; Chapter Four was the Data Analyses while Chapter Five was the Summary, Conclusion, Recommendation and Implication of the study. This study was guided by six research questions. Survey design was used. A portion of the entire population served as the sample size. The entirepopulation was 56 teachers and the sample size was 22 teachers. The 22 teachers became the respondents. The instrument of the study was questionnaire. It was face validated. A reliability exercise was carried out whereby the questionnaire was given to only the permanent lecturers of Institute of Ecumenical Education, Thinkers Corner, Enugu. The questionnaire was administered to the respondents twice with the interval of two weeks. The scores that were obtained were ranked and correlated. The data were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. Thecoefficient of 0.79 was obtained. The coefficient of o.79 showed that the instrument was reliable. The research questions were answered using mean scores. The analyses were presented in tables and statements of interpretation were made after each of the tables.Findings were made. There were recommendations and implications for the study. Finally, suggestions for further study were made.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study:
Every now and then, there is always the need for a man to get an optimum result in the most convenient and safest manner. Nothing has ever contributed more to the spread of knowledge than man’s invention of the ways of recording his thoughts in lasting form. Of all the qualities that make man an inventor, imagination is the foremost. It is the imagination that allows man to transcend his passive environment into the active form and meet up with other challenges within man’s environment. As man has settled in his environment, the human population increases; the entire system becomes complex. The amount of knowledge being received becomes very high and technical, too. The complexity of the society and overflow of information necessitate the man’s crave to provide alternative means to acquire the right and richly available information. This ushered in Information and Communication Technological revolution in the 20th century.
During the 20th century, there were many changes but none of them was as profound as the effect of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The 20th century was the century of the physical sciences, the transistors, the computer and other material sciences. New technologies and new techniques were engendered by the Information and Communication Revolution, which allow for the knowledge and the dissemination of Information and knowledge. The new technologies include the Internet, CD-Rom and other electronic media forms. Among all the new technologies, Internet remains the most effective Information and Communication Technological resource (Liverpool, 2001).