The challenges of information and communication technology in Nigeria universities: the way forward

Abstract

Information and communication Technology (ICT) for more than a decade have played a key role in both economic growths and the improvement of educational standard in Nigerian Universities. The increase efficiency provides access to educational research, article publications for the development of knowledge, skills and provision of enabling environment for innovations and building of human capacity. But the challenges that comes with it are also numerous. This paper seeks to highlight these challenges and suggest a way forward in addressing them. The study also investigates faculty and undergraduate students’ attitudes and anxiety about ICTs which includes the gender differentiations in their attitudes and anxiety. This study applied the Need Assessment Approach (NAA). The NAA was used to determine the Challenges of Information and Communication Technology in Nigeria Universities, the causes of these Challenges, and to propose a way forward on how to eradicate them where one exists. This approach measures the discrepancies between the current and desired result or the differences between the current situation and the ideal. One-Way analysis of variance (ANOVA) set at p < 0.05 was employed to test if significant differences exist in the opinions of the respondents from the two universities used for the study. The data obtained was computed and the results show that no significant differences exist in opinions across the two universities

Keywords: Challenges, Information, Technology, Communication, Gender, Anxiety, Attitudes