POST COVID-19 EDUCATION CRISIS AND THE NEED TO SUSTAIN BLENDED LEARNING FOR BETTER PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN ENUGU STATE

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to determine the needs to sustain blended learning by business educators and law lecturers in post covid-19 era for better pedagogical practices in public universities in Enugu State. The study was guided by two research questions and two null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was made up of 48 respondents (21 Business Educators and 27 Law Lecturers) of University of Nigeria Nsukka and Enugu State University of Science and Technology in this 2020/2021 academic session. No sampling was made since the population is manageable. Therefore the entire population was used for the study. Data for the study were collected through the administration of questionnaire instrument on the respondents. The instrument was subjected to a reliability test after validation through a pilot test administered to ten (10) Business Educators and ten (10) Law Lecturers in Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka. Data collected from the pilot test were analyzed using Cronbach Alpha to ascertain the internal consistency of the instrument. The analysis yielded coefficient indices of 0.86 for Cluster A and 0.82 for Cluster B of the Questionnaire respectively. The overall Coefficient index obtained for the instrument was 0.84 which was a strong indicator that the instrument is reliable. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data in respect of the research questions while t-test statistic was used to test the null hypotheses. Findings of the study indicate that Blended Learning skills strategies were found needed by Business Educators and Law Lecturers to sustain better pedagogical practices in public universities in Enugu State. Conclusion was drawn and recommendations were made that Blended Learning skills should be re-emphasized and continually sustained by Business Educators and Law Lecturers to sustain better pedagogical practices in public universities in Enugu State. Blended Learning strategies in the same vein should be continually sustained by Business Educators and Law lecturers to sustain better pedagogical practices in public universities in Enugu State.