LEVERAGING CLOUD-BASED PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES: A PRE-REQUISITE FOR CONTINUING TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES IN COVID-19 ERA

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Cloud-based pedagogical tools are important for giving teachers and students opportunities to adjust in teaching and learning during COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, the study is centred on leveraging cloud based pedagogical approaches as a pre-requisite for continuing teaching and learning activities in Covid-19 era. The study was guided by three objectives and three research questions. The descriptive survey research design was used in this study. The population of the study was 6,250 teachers and students comprising 5000 students and 1,250 teachers in the 20 public senior secondary schools Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. The sample of the study was 399 respondents comprising 159 teachers and 240 students. The Taro Yamane formular was used to determine the sample size. The simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample of 399 respondents. The instrument for data collection was a self-structured questionnaire titled: “Leveraging Cloud-Based Pedagogy Questionnaire”. The instrument was validated by two experts in Measurement and Evaluation in Rivers State University. The reliability of the instrument was established using test re-test method. A reliability co-efficient of 0.76 was obtained, which showed that the instrument was reliable. Mean and standard deviation were used in answering the research questions. The findings of the study revealed among others that during the cloud-based learning, teachers and learners were only communicating using internet facilities, this made learning to be at the comfort of the students, and the teachers had access to express themselves more with handling more audience to reduce fatigue. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among others that exposing students to cloud based learning will improve their quest for learning, which will also enhance the teaching learning process.

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