ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL LITERACY RESOURCES IN ADVANCING CLOTHING CONSTRUCTION IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN POST-FUEL DEREGULATION ERA

Abstract

This paper focuses on the assessment of the digital literacy resources in the teaching and learning of Clothing construction, an aspect of Home Economics Education in post-fuel deregulation era. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population for the study (19) were all the teachers of Clothing Construction across the tertiary institutions offering clothing construction in Lagos State and were adopted as the sample size of the study. Purposive sampling technique was adopted for this study, reason being that the teachers of clothing construction were limited in number. Variables related to the study were reviewed. A total of 19 questionnaires were distributed to teachers of Clothing Construction and retrieved. Responses were analyzed using the Statistical Packages for Social Sciences. The study found that most tertiary institutions lack the necessary digital literacy resources for teaching and learning clothing construction. The paper further discovered that there are challenges militating availability and utilization of digital literacy initiatives in spite of the potentials inherent in use of resources in the process of educational development. The paper made recommendations among others that DLR should be made available to impact positively in the teaching and learning of clothing construction to bring about wider wealth of knowledge that could gear up the benefactors to compete constructively, collaborate, gain technical proficiency and digital identity even during and after P-FDR.