Type of Resource:
Book Chapter

Year of Publication:
2015

Indicators:
- Challenges
- Solutions or Strategies


Themes:
- Digital Literacy And Skills
- Internet Access, Affordability And Use

Author(s): Anthonia Maduekwe

In today’s competitive global economic environment, information and communication technology (ICT) is becoming a widely accepted tool for multifaceted development. In view of the flexible services it offers, the new digital technology avails opportunities to revolutionize the traditional system of education. Concerns over educational relevance and quality co-exist with imperatives for expanding educational opportunities in higher education. To revamp the educational system, there is the need to produce a technologically literate workforce with positive disposition to technology use and reasonable competence of performing in a borderless knowledge-based economy.

URL
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvh8r00j?turn_away=true&Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=internet&searchText=use&searchText=in&searchText=africa&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Fpagemark%3DcGFnZU1hcms9NQ%253D%253D%26amp%3BsearchType%3DfacetSearch%26amp%3Bsd%3D2013%26amp%3Bed%3D2019%26amp%3BQuery%3Dinternet%2Buse%2Bin%2Bafrica%26amp%3Brefreqid%3Dsearch%253A53573ef3fff4cdaf58622b1b2e6814d5&ab_segments=0%2Fdefault-2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3Aeb8703f2f64f3a8abd1a13d7b2932bc9

Region of Study:
West Africa,

Country of Study:
Nigeria,

Study Quality
Medium