ICT in University Education: Usage and Challenges among Academic Staff

This study was a survey which explored ICT usage and challenges amongacademic staff. Thus, the main purpose of this study was to determine theareas of ICT usage among academic staff; identify the obstacles to their ICTusage and identify their areas of training need in ICT usage. Five researchquestions were posed to guide this study and a questionnaire was designed to collect data from a sample size of 80 academic staff. From the results,academic staff indicated that ICT is of much help to them in the areas ofupgrading of knowledge, research and publication. Weak infrastructure,financial constraints and lack of access to ICT facilities were identified asthe major obstacles to ICT usage among academic staff. Furthermore,designing of new learning activities, electronic presentation of materials andmaking use of internet were identified as their areas of train need in ICTusage. Recommendation made include providing compulsory free, adequatetraining opportunity for academic staff by the university management.