Locus of Control as Correlate of Lecturers' use of Multimedia Technologies in Colleges of Education in Southwest, Nigeria

The study investigated locus of control as a correlate of lecturers’ multimedia technologies utilisation in Colleges of Education in Southwest, Nigeria. This is for the purpose of ascertaining the relationship between lecturers’ locus of control and their multimedia technologies utilisation in colleges of education in southwest, Nigeria. The descriptive research design was adopted, while a multi-stage sampling procedure was used in the study. Stratified sampling technique was used to select colleges of education and simple random sampling method was employed to select lecturers from the selected colleges of education. A total of 862 lecturers (627 males and 235 females) participated in the study.  A structured questionnaire tagged “Lecturers’ Questionnaire on locus of control and Multimedia Technologies Utilisation in Colleges of Education in south west Nigeria” (LQLOCMTUCUESWN) with the reliability coefficient of 0.80 was used for data collected. Three research questions were answered in the course of the study. The result showed that inter locus of control of lecturers was low while their external locus of control was high, lecturers multimedia technologies utilisation in colleges o f education in southwest Nigeria is at average level. The finding also revealed a significant relationship between lecturers locus of control and their multimedia technologies utilisation in colleges of education in south west Nigeria. Therefore locus of control could be considered as correlate of lecturers’ use of multimedia technologies in Colleges of Education in south west, Nigeria.