Adoption and Acceptance of Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Enhancing Learning Effectiveness Among Distance Learners in Nigeria

AI literacy has come to stay as a means of teaching and learning in this digital age. It has the potential to enable learners to become self-regulated, think critically, receive more personalized learning experiences, and improve learning outcomes. AI literacy is the awareness, knowledge, skills, and ethical understanding needed to actively participate in and manage AI- based tools in education. Recognition of AI literacy in terms of awareness, competence and ethical knowledge forms the foundation on which successful adoption of AI-based learning systems relies. Therefore, acceptance is the attitudinal and psychological foundation for adoption, suggesting that without it, actual behavioral adoption would not be forthcoming. Adoption, therefore, is the behavioral expression of acceptance, the manner by which learners adopt AI knowledge and tools as part of their learning behavior. Therefore, making learning more effective for open distance learners with the use of AI tools would starts with the learners’ knowledge of what brought about AI, its emergence, expansion and integration, the definition, its application in education, types of AI technologies used in teaching and learning, the role of AI learners’ exposure to awareness, adoption and acceptance, learners’ education/training programmes on exposure to AI usage, social media/online communities of learners’ exposure influence on AI usage, challenges facing learners’ acceptance and adoption of AI literacy, the potential factors influencing the promotion of AI literacy adoption and acceptance with conclusion and some recommendations on improved teaching and learning condition in the digital world.