Improving Teacher Education through Blended Learning in Nigeria’s Colleges of Education
Keywords:
Blended Learning, Teachers’ EducationAbstract
The study was carried out to determine the contributions of blended
learning in improving teacher education. The study was carried out in
Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education Owerri. A sample of three
hundred pre-service teachers from the School of Natural science was
used for the study. A researcher made questionnaire instrument of the
Likert 4 points type was used to generate data. It had reliability coefficient
of 0.72 determined through Persons product moment correlation
coefficient. The generated data was analyzed using mean and standard
deviation. The result revealed that, blended learning has positive
contributions in improving teacher education. Based on the result, it
was recommended that teacher education curriculum should incorporate
blended learning approach in training pre-service teachers.
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