INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CAPACITY BUILDING SKILLS OF EDUCATION LECTURERS IN UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH-SOUTH, NIGERIA

ONUEKWUZUNMA C. U. NWOKEDI

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CAPACITY BUILDING SKILLS OF EDUCATION LECTURERS IN UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH-SOUTH, NIGERIA

ONUEKWUZUNMA C. U. NWOKEDI

Abstract

This study investigated ICT capacity building skills of education lecturers in universities in South-South, Nigeria. Three research questions and three hypotheses were formulated. The design was descriptive survey. The population of this study comprised all the education lecturers in the six federal and six state university institutions in South-South, Nigeria comprising 2,410 lecturers. A sample of four universities (two state and two federal universities) was drawn from which a sample size of 320 education lecturers was drawn using stratified random sampling technique, representing 56% of the population. Questionnaire titled “Human Capacity Building Skills of Education Lecturers in Information and Communication Technologies Questionnaire (HCBSELICTQ)” was validated and the reliability tested with test-retest method, yielded an index of 0.92. In analyzing the data, mean scores and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions and z-test used in testing the hypotheses. The findings revealed among others that, the strategies for enhancing the ICT capacity building needs of education lecturers in universities include: assisting lecturers with grants to participate in international conferences, providing the lecturers with laptops to carryout research for individual capacity building, giving the lecturers access to internet facilities in the school environment, unlimited transfer of ICT skills to lecturers with the help of school management, adequate maintenance of ICT policy implementation strategy in the system, constant electricity supply in institutions for the application of ICT devices, and proper maintenance of educational software used in network programming for knowledge building among staff. Researchers recommended that education lecturers should participate frequently in capacity building programmes using ICT devices to share knowledge/ideas among themselves for knowledge creativity.

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