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AbstractThe study examined users of human computer resources (HCR) amongst college of education, college of nursing and midwifery for instructional delivery. It is obvious that the whole world has become a global village whereby, the increasing of internet, exchanging or sharing information can be done for a little or no cost. Nevertheless, the ultimate goal is to allow researcher to gain an in-depth knowledge about availability and manner of usage of these computer resources for instructional delivery. It comprised all lecturersinstructors from the three Colleges within Kebbi state with a target population of 4,292 and a sample size of 214 lecturersinstructors was chosen based on 5%, advisors model (2006). The study used the quantitative method using the survey research design, the respondents were drawn using stratified and proportionate random sampling technique. Availability Checklist and questionnaire were adopted for data collection in this study. Two instruments Checklist and questionnaires were adopted from Suleiman (2016) for data collection for the study, the second instrument questionnaire contained 15 items across 4 point Likert scale. The findings revealed that the effect of using HCR in Kebbi State College of Education and Colleges of Nursing and Midwifery yielded a positive impact as becoming familiar with Human Computer Resources (HCR) would build-up users and efficiency. Not only should computer resources be cognitively fit, but lecturers, instructors should be ready to utilize them effectively. The study recommended amongst others that LecturersInstructors in these Colleges be motivated to develop framework of competency for effective utilization for instructional delivery.Keyword: Computer resources, Efficiency, Human interaction, Instructional Delivery, Higher EducationIntroductionFor effective design and delivery contents by the instructors to their students, they must be willing to embrace Computer use resources as in this nowadays, the impact of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is of enormous important to any countrys particularly, institutions of higher education, this is because of utilizing and sharing of information and communication. With the introduction of internet and use of computer resources, the world has become a global village, where information sharing can be received around the world for little or no cost (Samuel 2015), but to what extent did lecturers, students and administrators among colleges are ready to accept and utilize it. Many researches were carried out with regards to universities but few have been researched pertaining colleges of education. This wide gap has drawn the attention of the researchers to investigate the level of human computer interface in higher educational environment, specifically here in northern part of Nigeria.For this reason, the use of human computer resources for instructional delivery is likely to develop and prosper high-learning environment. To this assertion, one will agree that when lectures, students, and staffs in our colleges can be influence and provide with computer resources, it would develop experience and user-friendly system. Upon all the benefits of having contact with human computer resources, a good number of higher institutions in developing countries fall short of designing, implementing and evaluating interactive computing system for human use and for studying the major phenomenon surrounding that consequently fall short of using HCI in most favorably. The ways and nature of how most developing countries like Nigeria and in particular, northern region and the fact that they adopt and become familiar with traditional way for instructional delivery as a result of lack of understanding the power of using human computer resources from either instructors, students or staffs particularly in college of education and colleges of nursing. This could be as a result of little or no attention given to current technological resources that moves around the world. Since there is an experience of un-exploitation of potential and fully use of these resources in long-run, this would ultimately affect their instructional delivery. Definitely, computer resources have become a critical part of our everyday activities in our society therefore, lectures, students, and staffs begin to be aware of important of engaging with computer resources as they understand that they will have an excellent experience for instructional delivery and other activities within their institutions. Hence, it would contribute immensely to the learning atmosphere of any higher institutional learning environment. There seems to be a disparity between those higher institutional environments that interact with computer resources (HCR) and those that have little or never appreciate and interact with HCR resources, in terms of how they perceive or use computer system in their day-to-day or school activities, then, what is the level of efficiency by the users if at all they are utilizing it for instructional delivery? This gave rise to the curiosity of how users perceive and interact with these computers in a higher learning circumstance.Use of computer resources is highly of benefits and concern to our colleges of education and colleges of nursing and midwifery, in terms of instructional delivery when effectively used. Therefore, the expected result is a great deployment of these computer resources for instructions especially in these colleges. The lectures are expected to be motivated in develop competency for the effective utilization of computer resources for instructional delivery.The researchers are expecting good maintenance culture for the available computer resources for instructions in colleges in Kebbi State. Since it ensures sustainability in deployment of these resources in the colleges. We are expecting of regular training on computer resources that could be through workshop, conferences and seminars which should be organized for lecturers in order to motivate them in having appropriate and effective utilization of computer resources for human use and instructional.This research aims to explore the level of interactions and efficiency with regards to using of these computer resources; to what extent the lectures, student, and administrators perceive the role of Human Computer Resources (HCR) in their school activities. In a nutshell, the aim of this research investigation was to discover whether Human Computer resources are really a helping hand or a stumbling block in higher educational environments as a case maybe.

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