Education, Sustainability And Society (ESS)2(3) (2019) 05-11 Cite The Article: Abubakar Shuaibu Chiroma, A.I. Haruna (2019 ). Role Of Blend ed Learning In Automobile Technology Program In North Eastern Nigeria. Educ ation , Sustainability And Societ y , 2(3): 05-11. ISSN: 2617-9415 (Online) CODEN: ESSDAX ARTICLE DETAILS Article History: Received 01 April 2019 Accepted 30 May 2019 Available online 10 June 2019 ABSTRACT Those essential Elements for automobile technology education program was born out of the need to bridge the gap between the theory and practical knowledge specifically in Nigeria. This study aimed at Exploring essential elements and one fundamental components of blended learning that are suitable for integration in automobile technology program at tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The study also develops a Blended Learning Model for teaching and learning by exploring those essential elements for technology education with a view to improving the teaching and learning. Quantitative research method was employed, so as to find the opinion of both teachers and students. The population of this research comprised of 571 respondents and the sample size was 346 respondents of Automobile Technology Education in the public tertiary institutions offering Automobile Technology Education in the North Eastern Nigeria. The model was tested via Sequential Equation Modelling (SEM) illustrated with a good goodness of fit from the factor loadings shown by the initial and final measurement model and indicating regression weights of the revised model. The findings can be useful in identifying dangers and benefits of using those essential elements technology mediated learning tools, While Online instruction as a fundamental component for blended learning presents new opportunities for teaching and learning and enhances social connectedness in teaching and learning of automobile technology. This demonstrate the appropriateness of adaptation those essential elements for professional development which can provide practical, accessible means for a wide range of issues which is relevant and effective continuing education. KEYWORDS Online Construction, Automobile, Nigeria 1. INTRODUCTION Blended learning has been defined as a way to provide opportunities in a number of ways by a number of people but the common definition has always been unclear [1,2]. In essence, blended learning does not involve blending the educational objectives such as cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains, but rather it means the blending of online teaching approach with the face to face teaching in school setting. To this end, in experience of mixed learning, there found only few studies that have evidences of the ways how student approach towards learning technology may fluctuate qualitatively: few adopt approaches towards technologies without looking at the educational objective and utilize them to deepen and broaden their understandings of subject matters they study, whereas others adopt surface approach towards technologies as well as try to limit their use of technology without considering the objectives [3]. 2. BACKGROUND Developing an effective teaching and learning practice within a tertiary education segment is becoming an arena of growing concerns in general as tertiary institutions are concerned to be perceived as offering excellent learning and teaching experiences. Technical and Vocational Education and Training TVET in particular in Nigeria is believed to be one of the main priorities that greatly contributes to the socio-economic development of the country. Despite that, TVET is bedeviled with the shortage of qualified manpower especially in technical disciplines [4]. To address this issue of qualified manpower shortage, there is a need to introduce other means of training beyond face-to face instruction at tertiary level [5]. Moreover, suggestions for reform in higher education have something in common with secondary while secondary schools are concerned with quality of teaching and workplace. However, the tertiary institutions are mainly concerned on curriculum rather than on instructions. This means there has been little or no attention on how to improve learning process in their own classrooms. This also implied more attention is shifted to curriculum little or no attention is given to the process of teaching. 3. PROBLEM Technical and Vocational Education and Training TVET in Nigeria is believed to be one of the main priorities that greatly contributes to the socio-economic development of the country, despite that, TVET is bedeviled with the shortage of qualified manpower especially in technical disciplines. To this end, in order to address the problem, there is a need to introduce another means of training TVET that is beyond traditional form of instruction especially at tertiary level to improve the quality of teaching and learning. In line with this improvement, it is sufficient to note that efforts to improve the quality of instruction in institutions are similar while secondary schools’ emphasis is on what to teach, tertiary institutions concerned on the quality of curriculum and workplace, rather than on types of instructions. That is to say emphasis has been on what is taught more than how it is taught [6]. This means that there has been little or no attention on how to improve learning in their own classrooms via computer information technology in this global age. Generally, when we talk on teaching and learning, hardly can we talk on teaching for learning. Education, Sustainability And Society (ESS) DOI: http://doi.org/10.26480/ess.03.2019.05.11 RESEARCH ARTICLE ROLE OF BLENDED LEARNING IN AUTOMOBILE TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM IN NORTH-EASTERN NIGERIA Abubakar Shuaibu Chiroma * and A.I. Haruna Department of Technology Education, School of Technology and Science Education, Modibbo Adama University of Technology Yola, Nigeria *Corresponding Author Email: chiromabubakar@gmail.com This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited