Role of ICT in Higher Education

Trends, Problems, and Prospects

Gopal Singh Latwal, Sudhir Kumar Sharma, Prerna Mahajan, Piet Kommers, Gopal Singh Latwal, Sudhir Kumar Sharma, Prerna Mahajan, Piet Kommers

• Publisher: Apple Academic Press
• Year: 2020
• Topic: Computer Science
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000292459
• Subtopic: Computer Science General
• Index: Computer Science

This new volume provides an informative collection of chapters on ICT and data analytics in education, helping to lead the digital revolution in higher education. The chapters emphasize skill development through ICT, artificial intelligence in education, policies for integrating ICT in higher education, and more. The book focuses mainly on technological advancements in ICT in education, the perceived role of ICT in the teaching-learning transaction, pedagogy for teaching-learning in the 21st century, student-centered learning based on ICT, learning analytics, online technologies learning, tools for technology enhanced learning, distance education and learning, the effective use of ICT in management education, experiences in ICT for technology-enhanced learning, influence of ICT in research development in higher education, role of teachers in direct classroom teaching in web-based education system, and role of ICT in innovation capacity building. The case studies help to illustrate the ideas and concepts discussed in the chapters.

CHAPTER 1
Identifying the e-Learning Facilities for Teaching and Learning Office Technology and Management Courses in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions

AMMANI ABUBAKAR

Department of Office Technology and Management, College of Administration and Management Studies, Hassan Usman Katsina Polytechnic, Katsina State, Nigeria.
E-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]

ABSTRACT

e-Learning is the type of learning where electronic technologies are utilized to access educational curricula outside the conventional classroom. e-Learning is the main information communication and technology (ICT) tool used for teaching and collaborating learning. e-Learning usually refers to the structured and managed learning experience and maybe provided partially or wholly via a web browser or through the Internet and intranet or multimedia platform. Tertiary institutions are mandated to create, adapt, and disseminate knowledge to individuals with better professional competencies. This could be achieved using e-learning facilities in the classroom instructions. Specifically, the office technology and management (OTM) courses are expected to comply with 21st- century technologywise since the secretaries are the custodians of the technologies. This paper focused on identifying the e-learning facilities for teaching and learning OTM courses in Nigerian tertiary institutions. The total population was 229 OTM and ICT lecturers used as a respondent all drawn from the seven tertiary institutions in northwest Nigeria. The whole population was used as a sample of the study because the population is manageable in size. The research was guided by three research questions. A structured questionnaire was the instrument used to collect data. It was categorized as SA = (strongly agree), A= (agree), D = (disagree), and SD = (strongly disagree). All of the categories have points of 4 and 1, respectively, in order of their importance. The analysis of data was done using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions with a benchmark of 2.50. Conclusions and recommendations were also drawn based on the findings. Among others, the paper recommended that the e-learning approach should be used in teaching the OTM courses in tertiary institutions; the management of the institutions should encourage teachers and students to access the facilities that were not accessible as they collaborate and enhance teaching and learning, and special grant for intervention should be provided by the government to collaborate e-learning instructional delivery in tertiary institutions.

1.1 INTRODUCTION

e-Learning refers to learning where technologies are utilized to administer educational curriculum outside the conventional class. e-Learning is the main information communication and technology (ICT) tool for instructional delivery. e-Learning means to structure and manage learning experience provided partially or wholly via a web browser or through the Internet, palmtop, e-book, world wide web, etc. The changes occur in most business environments. Tertiary institutions are mandated to create, adapt, and disseminate knowledge to individuals with better professional competencies. This could be achieved using e-learning facilities in the classroom instructions. Specifically, the office training and management (OTM) courses are expected to comply with 21st century technologywise since the secretaries are the custodians of the technologies. This paper focused on identifying the e-learning facilities suitable for the instructional delivery of OTM courses in Nigerian tertiary institutions.

Anderson and Glem (2003) posit that ICT refers to a connection of many different types of computer networks linked together globally. They added that those technologies are used to communicate information are called ICTs. These technologies include computers and its devices, including software and hardware applications used to access the Internet networking infrastructures, video conferencing, and many more.

ICT has essentially entailed in collecting, processing, storing, retrieving, as well as transmitting and communicating data in different forms, such as audiovisual or audio and visual formats (UNESCO, 2002). The concern on how the OTM curriculum is delivered in the Polytechnics, Colleges of Education, and Universities in contemporary times is very important to our educational system. This can be achieved by accessing the e-learning facilities in the instructional delivery situation to improve the academic effectiveness and efficiency of OTM students in modern organizations. The challenges faced by educators in these institutions are neither centered on covering the course contents nor adopting the appropriate pedagogical aids by collaborating e-learning in the teaching and learning process.

The integration of information technology (IT) in teaching is to ensure the quality of the OTM courses. There are two reasons for incorporating ICT facilities in teaching and learning of OTM. First, students would be familiar with the facilities since all jobs in the society rely upon ICT. Second, the pedagogy of OTM courses using e-learning resources would improve the quality of OTM graduates by making them more attractive and effective in the labor market. ICT is significant and plays a very vital role in society. It makes them to have the skills, adapt them, and apply them in processing the information (Aribasala in Apagu and Wakili, 2015).

Furthermore, information is raw facts, while communication, on the other hand, means sending a message from the sender to the receiver. By doing so, communication becomes information (Mukerjee, 2008). As such, only when data is processed, organized, and interpreted, it can be used in decision making. Additionally, technology could be any knowledge that can be used to dev...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• About the Editors
• Contents
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Preface
• Foreword
• 1. Identifying the e-Learning Facilities for Teaching and Learning Office Technology and Management Courses in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions
• 2. Students’ Perspective Toward Online vs Offline Modes of Examination
• 3. Perception of Students Toward the Use of Power Point Presentations as a Teaching Tool
• 4. A Cloud‑Based Solution for Smart Education: An Extended Version
• 5. Impact of e‑Resources in Higher Education Institutions
• 6. Application of Learning Analytics Model in Outcome-Based Education
• 7. Higher Education Elaboration through ICT
• 8. Students’ Perceptions of ICT Usage in Higher Education: A Study
• 9. Role of ICT in Research and Development in Higher Education
• 10. Blended Learning Strategies for Management Students in Metro and Nonmetro Cities
• 11. Effectiveness of Developed Electronic Module in terms of Achievement in Educational Administration of MEd. Students
• 12. Changes, Innovations, and Reforms in Education from Traditional Learning to 21st Century Learning
• 13. Anytime Learning vs Classroom Teaching: A Comparative Perception Study
• 14. Learners’ Satisfaction with MOOCs: A Cross‑Sectional Study
• 15. Survey of Awareness of Massive Open Online Courses in Delhi, India
• 16. Online Students’ Feedback Management System for Higher Education
• 17. The Role of ICT in Higher Education: Emerging Issues and Challenges
• 18. Comprehensive Tool to Improve Program Outcome Attainment by Integrating Indirect Internal Assessment
• 19. An Appraisal of Constructive Learning Process Environment Using Intranet Based e‑Content Management System for Engineering Education in Karnataka State
• 20. Comparative Study of Four Options of ICT Systems in Management and Administration of Educational Institutions
• 21. Effectiveness of Developed Learning Management System in Terms of Achievement of BEd. Teacher Trainees
• 22. ICT in Education and Sustainable Development: Prospects and Challenges
• 23. ICT Persuaded Educational Platform: Pragmatic Study on Asian Countries
• 24. Role of ICT and Education Level in Financial Inclusion of Rural Population
• 25. Role of Information and Communication Technology in Developing Northeast Region of India and Some Aspects of e-Governance
• 26. Integration of Human Resource and Knowledge Management Initiatives in Higher Education
• 27. College Automation Security Management
• 28. Impact of ICT on Leveling the Ethnicity Divide in Order to Promote Student Engagement in the Education Sector
• 29. Exploring the Role of Cloud‑Based Deployment of Classrooms in Handling the Scalability and Reachability Challenge of Education in the Indian Context
• 30. Higher Education in Capacity and Capability Building for the Information Economy
• 31. ICT in Higher Education: Overcoming the Challenges
• 32. Fostering ICT‑Based Education for Sustainable Development of an Inclusive Classroom Setting
• Index