PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE USE OF MOBILE BLOGS AUGMENTED LEARNING STRATEGIES IN NORTHWESTERN NIGERIA

Abstract

The study investigated the pre-service teachers’ attitude towards the use of mobile blogs augmented learning strategies in Northwestern Nigeria. One research question and one corresponding hypothesis were formulated and tested in the study. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design and the population of the study comprised 350 woodwork students subdivided into 224 male students and 126 female students in the six Federal and State Government owned Colleges of Education in the seven North-Western states. The sample was 144 males and 42 females NCE III Woodwork students making a grand total of 186. A questionnaire on Mobile Blog Attitude as Learning Tool (MBALT) was used for data collection. MBALT was pilot-tested and a reliability index of 0.82 was obtained. The stated research question was answered using mean and standard deviation while the hypothesis was tested using a One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The study finding showed that there was a significant difference in the mean rating of pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward Vblog, Ablog and Tblog in favour of Vblog and Tblog. It was recommended, among others, that the lecturers of machine woodwork should encourage their pre-service teachers to exploit mobile blog sites related to their courses and share ideas with fellow students via commenting on the blog content. Colleges of education offering machine woodwork as a course should be embedded in their Learning Management System (LMS) Mobile blog where lecturers can upload content and students can share ideas with fellow students using the blog. Keywords: Mobile blog, attitude, woodwork, pre-service teachers