ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICATION OF ICT TO TEACHING AND LEARNING IN PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH SOUTH GEOPOLITICAL ZONE OF NIGERIA
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Glorious Vision University
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This research was carried out to assess the extent of application of ICT to teaching and learning
in Nigerian private universities. Four research questions and three hypotheses guided the study.
Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population used as the sample
consisted of 8 private universities from the south south geopolitical zone, particularly from
Delta and Edo States. A validated questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 0.96 was used
for data collection. The quantitave statistics: frequency counts, percentage and mean were used.
The inferential statistic was applied to assess the significance of the hypotheses. Analysis of
Variance (ANOVA) was the technique of estimation and the F- statistic was used to test
whether the hypotheses at 0.01, 0.05 and 0.1 significance respectively. The results revealed
that there is a significant relationship between the use of ICT in teaching and learning in private
universities. The results show that the application of ICT promotes teaching and learning in
higher institutions of learning, particularly universities that have well-equipped ICT units are
able to enhance their lecturers’ teaching and students’ learning capacity.
Keywords: Information communication technology (ICT), Teaching and Learning, South
South Geopolotical Zone, Private Universities.
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