INTERACTIVE VS. NON-INTERACTIVE MEDIA: AN ASSESSMENT OF THEIR ROLE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING IN RIVERS STATE UNIVERSITIES

The study examined the utilization of interactive and non-interactive in faculties of education in Universities in Rivers State. Descriptive survey design was adopted and the population comprised of 258 lecturers and 11,666 students giving a total population of 11,924. Sample was drawn from the study and analysis was done with 168 lecturers and 232 students who returned their instruments. Test re-test method was used for the reliability test which yielded a co-efficient of 0.82. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyse the research questions while z-test was used to test the hypotheses. Findings from the study revealed that interactive and non-interactive media are critically utilised to some extent for teaching and learning courses in faculties of education in universities in Rivers State. The hypotheses testing proved that there is no significant difference in the responses of the lecturers and students on the utilization of interactive and non-interactive media as a component of information and communication technology in teaching and learning courses in faculties of education in universities in Rivers State. Based on the findings, conclusion were drawn and recommendations made amongst others includes provision of interactive and non-interactive media in faculties of education in universities in Rivers State for effective teaching and learning should be encouraged; training and retraining of lecturers on how to effectively utilize interactive and non-interactive media during teaching should be a necessity for lecturers in the faculties of education and students should try and utilize the interactive and non-interactive media during learning as it will certainly help in improving their knowledge and understanding