Vocational and Technical Education Journal

In a bid to make educational resources available at no cost for an effective and sustainable teaching learning process, the Nigeria Universities Commission provided Nigeria University System Open Educational Resources (NUSOER) for all Universities. This study therefore sought to assess the extent of the utilization of Open Educational Resources (OER) in delivering Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) programmes in Universities. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population for the study was 224 comprising of 150 lecturers and 74 instructors in the two Universities offering TVET programmes in Enugu State. No sampling was done as the population was of manageable size. A structured questionnaire of 31 items was used to elicit information from the respondents on fourpoint rating scale. The internal consistency of the instrument was computed using Cronbach Alpha reliability formula and it yielded a value of 0.86. The research questions were answered using mean while the null hypotheses were tested using t-test at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that TVET teachers utilize some OER to foster effective transmission of knowledge. However, it was found that the extent to which OER are utilized are still very low. The study therefore recommends that TVET teachers should be encouraged to utilize OER in their classroom in line with world best practices among others

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