Adapting And Domiciling Moodle Lms For Improving Learning Outcome In Digital Electronics At Colleges Of Education In North-East Nigeria

With the fast-moving waves of developments in technology in conjunction with the complex and uncertain nature of the world, education and training providers need to explore other pedagogical approaches to enhance teaching and learning process. Primarily this study investigated how Moodle learning management system can be used to improve students’ achievement in digital electronics at Colleges of Education in North East Nigeria. The researcher adapted and modified the learning environment of Moodle LMS to suit the needs for teaching some abstract contents of technical education online. Four objectives, four research questions and four hypotheses guided the study. A Non-equivalent control group quasi-experimental design was used in the study. The area of the study was North-Eastern states of Nigeria. A population of 70 NCE III students of Electrical and Electronics Technology education from two schools in North-East Nigeria was used. 38 students were assigned to experimental group and 32 to control group. 30 objective test items were used for data collection. Reliability of the instrument was determined to be 0.561 using PPMC. results from mean and standard analysis with the hypotheses tested at 0.05 revealed that using Moodle LMS has significantly improved students’ achievement in digital electronics. The study concluded that using Moodle LMS as complementary to face-to-face teaching-learning process has a significantly improved learning outcome of students, and therefore can be used as paradigm shift from laboratories to field.