Impact of e-learning on employability development of vocational technical education pre-service teachers for national security

Abstract

This paper examined the impact of e-learning on employability development of Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) Pre-service Teachers for national security. As employability skills is highly required for one to be a successful VTE Teacher and Technician or technologist. Employability Skills are usually not formally taught as part of the VTE curriculum content. The coming of e-learning as innovation in VTE will provide graduates’ opportunities to acquire these employability skills if the lecturers employed this method in teaching. This paper focused on VTE Teachers Training Programmes in Nigeria, e- learning techniques, employability skill needs of VTE teachers and the impact of e-learning on employability skills development for national security. It has become necessary for VTE Lecturers to employ e-learning as one of the methods of training VTE Teachers. Because of the advent of knowledge economy, e-learning has been one of the high priorities promoted in higher education with the hope of bringing innovations that enhance quality in education. This work has a great impact to pre-service teacher of VTE programme as the knowledge of e-learning can build employability skill which they can apply in teaching after graduation.