Students Experiences in Edutainment Apps for Learning Vocational and Technical Education Contents

Kabiru Abdullahi¹ , Ahmad A. Deba² , Jamilu M. Chedi³

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.9 , Issue.10 , pp.17-22, Oct-2023

Online published on Oct 31, 2023

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Abstract :
Edutainment is a mobile app that can run on android devices consists of knowledge and entertainment to support learning; it plays a vital role at supporting learning and community development. The students of technical colleges often spend considerable amount of their time on the use of android phones to play games, watch videos, chart with friends and family. Therefore this study aimed at accessing how often students of national technical certificate (NTC 1 to 3) use edutainment to improve their academic achievement. The research embraced descriptive poll design. The study was directed by three study questions with corresponding hypotheses. The 3220 students of technical colleges in Bauchi state comprises the population of this research work, while 780 students of national technical certificate (NTC 1 to 3) were randomly selected from three sampled technical colleges. Structured questionnaire was utilized to collect data while the data analysis was done using descriptive statistics and hypothesis was test using inferential statistics. The result of this study exposed that, students of national technical certificate are yet to embrace edutainment that runs on android phones in learning. The study recommends that more edutainment apps should be developed to facilitate learning of vocational and technical education.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Edutainment Apps, Students’ Experience, Vocational and Technical Education

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