The Educational Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Higher Education in Developing Countries

The fast growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education has given rise to the expectation that new technologies would significantly influence the quality of education. In spite of significant development of ICT in education, there is a great concern on ICT use in Higher Education (HE). Several researches have done in the past years on the use of ICT in education and associated factors. However, less is known as to the extent to which educators use ICT in their teaching in HE in general and Engineering Education (EE) in particular in the context of developing countries and conditions for effective ICT use in education. This study therefore, aims at examining the educational use of ICT and factors that affect ICT use in HE in developing countries with special reference to (EE). This study has theoretical significance for it will push the existing knowledge horizon regarding educators use of ICT for teaching purpose and associated factors in higher education in developing countries settings. Practically, the identification of conditions for effective use of ICT by educators will provide valuable information to policy-makers, educational leaders and educators in order to improve the educational use of ICT by educators in higher education in developing countries. The study will employ mixed research design and data will be collected from educators, heads of departments, Deans, ICT directors and Academic Vice presidents in three randomly selected Institutes of Technologies using questionnaires and interview. The quantitative and qualitative data will be analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS 20) and NVivo 11computer software respectively.