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ICT Competence among Academic Staff in Universities in Cross Rivers State, Nigeria

Author(s) -

Ijeoma A. Archibong,

Joseph Etiongbie Ogbiji,

Franc Anijaobi-Idem

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

computer and information science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1913-8997

pISSN - 1913-8989

DOI - 10.5539/cis.v3n4p109

Subject(s) - information and communications technology , competence (human resources) , the internet , medical education , descriptive statistics , data collection , psychology , medicine , computer science , sociology , world wide web , social psychology , social science , statistics , mathematics

The survey research design was adopted in this study which examined ICT competence and challenges to ICT usage among academic staff. Six research questions were posed to guide the study and a questionnaire was developed, validated and used for data collection from a sample size of 300 academic staff. The collected data were analysed using descriptive statistics (percentages). The results show that majority of the academic staff funded their ICT training; high number of them have laptops; access to internet was mainly at public cyber café; majority (53.3%) rated their ICT competence as low. Inadequate ICT facilities, excess work load and funding were identified as major challenges to ICT usage among academic staff. Recommendations made include funding of ICT training of academic staff by the university management and making ICT training mandatory for all academic staff.

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