Assessing the Benefits and Challenges Facing Artificial Intelligence Use by Lecturers in South-West Colleges of Education, Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined the benefits and challenges facing artificial intelligence use by lecturers in South-west Colleges of Education, Nigeria. A descriptive research design of survey type was utilised. One thousand eight hundred and eighty-five lecturers in the eight public Colleges of Education in South-west, Nigeria formed the study population. Three states and two public Colleges of Education in each of the sampled states were selected purposively. Three hundred lecturers were selected proportionately. Benefits and Challenges Facing Artificial Intelligence Use by Lecturers Questionnaire, validated and tested for reliability with an index of 0.82 was utilised collect data for the study. Percentage and t-test were used analyse the data. The study found that that artificial intelligence use, among other things, helped lecturers to have access to many materials to prepare their lecturer notes, paraphrase ideas borrowed from other scholars to support their researches, enhance their grammatical construction and carry out effective assessment of students; while challenges facing artificial intelligence use by lecturers were poor internet, poor power supply, inadequate technological skills, non-readiness of lecturers to adapt to change and lack of awareness. The study concluded that lecturers derive many benefits through artificial intelligence use and this helps to enhance their job performance. It was recommended, among others, that the managements of Colleges of Education in South-west, Nigeria should periodically and constantly organise lecture, workshop, seminar, and symposia for lecturers on artificial intelligence, to acquire adequate skills and knowledge to utilise it to enhance their job performance.