An Investigative Study of Students’ Readiness for Digital Classroom Learning in Post Covid-19 Pandemic in Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Kaduna, Nigeria

Abstract

The study attempts to “Investigates Students’ Readiness for Digital Classroom Learning in Air Force Institute of Technology Kaduna, Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. One hundred and seventy five (175) undergraduate students were randomly selected and served as a sample size. A structured questionnaire titled Digital Classroom Readiness questionnaire (DCRQ) was constructed. It is in-line with modified likert scale and was used for data collection. The questionnaire was divided in to two parts, part one was made purposely to assess the demographic data of the respondents while part two consist of thirty questions and was also sub-divided in to four parts in which each sub-part has ten questions. The instrument was tested and validated using Cronbach’s Alpha correlation co-efficient test and yielded a reliability co-efficient of 0.79 which indicated the validity and reliability of the instrument. The instrument was administered using Google Form. A total respond of one hundred and seventy five (175) were collected from undergraduate students at different level. The collected data was extracted, cleared and transferred to Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 2.0 for proper analysis. Descriptive statistics was used in analyzing respondent’s demographic data while mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions. The findings of the study shows that, students are ready for digital classroom learning; It also reveals that, students’ have basic ICTs skills needed for digital classroom learning; Furthermore, the study highlighted that, learners face some challenges while engaged in digital classroom learning. The researcher recommend that, the school should encourage students’ to improve in their ICT skills; Relevant ICTs infrastructure/equipment should be provided to the school and seminar, short courses and workshops should be organize to train lecturers/instructors on digital classroom learning.