Assessment of Students and Lecturers Attitudes towards Blended Learning in Public Universities in Southeast, Nigeria:- Akanwa, U.N

ABSTRACT

This study assessed attitudes of students and lecturers towards blended learning in public universities in Southeast, Nigeria. The study adopted survey designed. The population consisted of 5789 students and lecturers in public universities that run education programs in Southeast Nigeria. Three universities that run education programmes were purposively selected from 10 public universities in South East. From each ofthe three universities, sample size of 200 students and 30 lecturers were selected by multi-stage random sampling technique. The instrument used for data collection were questionnaire titled Students Attitude Towards Blended Learning Questionnaire (SAQ) and lecturers attitude towards Blended Learning Questionnaire (LAQ) and made up of 20 items using 4-points modified scale and validated by three experts in the department of Science Education, Michael Okpara University ofAgriculture, Umudike. The instruments were subjected to test-retest method ofreliability with coefficients ofr = 0.85 for SAQ and 0.89 for LAQ. All the research questions were analyzed using mean and standard deviation while t-test statistic was employed in testing hypothesis. The results revealed that both students and lecturers have positive attitudes towards blended learning. There was no significance difference between students and lecturers attitudes towards blended learning. It was recommended that education policy makers especially the National University Commission should integrate the use ofblended learning into teachers’ education curriculum.