The Impact Of Using Multimedia Tools On Teaching And Learning In Secondary Schools

1.3 Objectives of study

General Objective

The general objective of this study was to examine the impact of multimedia tools on teaching and learning in secondary schools

Specific Objectives

1. To explore the views of teachers and students on the extent to which multimedia tools affect student performance.

2. To examine the challenges that teachers in Alaafin high school and Alaafin grammar school face in accessing multimedia tools.

3. Assess the strategies that teachers use to minimize the challenges of attaining and using quality multimedia tools.

1.4 Research questions

1. What are the views of teachers and students on the extent to which multimedia tools affect students’ performance?

2. What are the challenges that teachers in Alaafin high school and Alaafin grammar school face in accessing multimedia tools?

3. What are the strategies that teachers use to minimize the challenges of attaining and using quality multimedia tools?

1.5 Significance Of the Study

Technology is evolving at an astonishing rate. It has dramatically changed the ways we work, learn, interact, and spend our leisure time. Computers and information technologies have visibly revolutionized nearly every aspect of life. It is both reasonable and expected that technology should also help lead the way to improve teaching and learning in our schools. Technology offers new ways of teaching and learning, and provides new ways for all involved in education to be openly accountable to parents, communities, and students (National Research Council, 1995). However this study will expose the students, lecturers/teachers, parents, government at various levels and the general public to the impacts of using multimedia tools in teaching and learning as well as the national development on the suggestion that would be made if well utilized will reduce teacher’s burden in teaching jobs, also facilitating teaching and learning activities.

1.6 Scope Of the Study

This study covers the entire secondary school students of Alaafin high school and Alaafin grammar school, Agunpopo, in Atiba local government area of Oyo state.

1.7 Delimitation Of the Study

The major problem faced during this research is time, the researcher has limited time to complete the research and also insufficient fund to finance the project also to visit more one school.

1.8 Definition Of Terms

Impact: a marked effect or influence.

Multimedia: a platform that integrates analogue information in various forms such as text, images, and audio-visual materials to a single digitized data and relays them using several (multi) vehicles (media)

Teaching: teaching is the activities of educating/instructing or activities that involve imparting of knowledge or skill to learners or animals.