Extent of Utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Teaching by Building Construction Educators in Public Universities in South-East Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined the extent of utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in teaching by building construction educators in Public Universities in South East Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study and two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. A total of 110 building construction educators, in six public universities in Southeast Nigeria which include both federal and state universities that are offering building construction courses, formed the population of the study. A structured questionnaire validated by three experts was used to carry out the study. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer research questions while Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test the hypotheses. It was found out that greater that of the respondents upheld of adaptive learning and virtual reality were utilized at a low extent by building construction educators. It was concluded that the AI-Powered tools were not adequately utilized, by it was therefore recommended that effort should be made by building construction educators to understand AI's role in education, but also embrace or employ it in carrying out their functions