Cosmas Uchenna Nwokeafor

Information Communication Technology (ICT) Integration to Educational Curricula

A New Direction for Africa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Information Communication Technology (ICT) Integration to Educational Curricula serves as a standard textbook in graduate and senior level undergraduate classes in colleges and universities to contribute to the existing mass communication and ICT literature. The textbook offers a multi-discipline perspective to students of mass communication and information technology and avails them an opportunity to have a valid research tool with great details to pursue their research and class assignments. It provides an essential platform for appropriate literature in mass communication, political communication, and ICT details with relevance to its integration in Africa educational curricula. The book can also serve as a supplemental text for courses in mass media effects, politics, and political communications. It includes contributions by scholars and professionals of African extraction with varied research interests on diverse issues relevant to ICT and its significant impact to curricula development and application to Africa as the new African educational system. The chapters cover a wide array of mass communication, diffusion of innovation, and ICT issues of diverse importance that will guide students, government agencies, and professionals in following the imminent and evolving changes resulting from the integration of technology to educational curricula.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780761865360
• ISBN-10: 0761865365
• Artikelnr.: 41954421

Autorenporträt

By Cosmas Uchenna Nwokeafor

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION OVERVIEW OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY'S (ICT) IMPACT IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN AFRICA Cosmas Uchenna Nwokeafor
Bowie State University CHAPTER 1 THE IMPERATIVE OF DEALING WITH SOME FUNDAMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURAL CHALLENGES AS A PREREQUISITE TO THE INTEGRATION OF ICT TO EDUCATIONAL CURRICULA IN AFRICA Matt Mogekwu
Department of Journalism
Ithaca College
Ithaca
NY 1 CHAPTER 2 USAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AS PEDAGOGICAL TOOLS AMONG LECTURERS IN NIGERIAN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS Ifeoma T. Amobi
University of Lagos
Lagos
Nigeria CHAPTER 3 INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) INTEGRATION IN AFRICAN EDUCATION: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR STUDENTS
EDUCATORS AND THE GOVERNMENT Fidelis Kpaduwa
Systems Engineer
Loudoun County
Virginia CHAPTER 4 E-LEARNING AS A VEHICLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL GIRLS IN GHANA
WEST AFRICA Kristie Roberts-Lewis
Troy University
Troy
Alabama Michael E. Orok
Tennessee State University
Nashville
Tennessee CHAPTER 5 IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA: BEST PRACTICES IN TEACHING
LEARNING AND TRAINING AFRICAN STUDENTS IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Cosmas U. Nwokeafor
Bowie State University CHAPTER 6 CHALLENGES FACING THE AVAILABILITY AND UTILIZATION OF ICT RESOURCES IN POST PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN NSUKKA EDUCATIONAL ZONE OF ENUGU STATE
NIGERIA Chijioke Jonathan Olelewe
Federal College Of Education
Enugu State
Nigeria Augustina C. Nzeadibe
University of Nigeria
Nsukka CHAPTER 7 THE PROMISE
PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) UTILIZATION IN AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS: CONTINENTAL
NATIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL REALITIES Justin U. Harris
University of the District of Columbia Chapter 8 CLOUD COMPUTING IN EDUCATION-A STUDY OF TRENDS
CHALLENGES AND AN ARCHETYPE FOR EFFECTIVE ADOPTION IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES Fagbola Temitayo Matthew
Federal University
Oye-Ekiti
Ekiti State Chapter 9 THE ROLE OF ICT IN CHANGING ACADEMIC CURRICULA: A REVIEW OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND INTEGRATION APPROACH IN SCHOOLS IN AFRICA Cosmas U. Nwokeafor
Bowie State University Chapter 10 MODELING DATA PRIVACY IN AFRICA Kato Mivule
Bowie State University Chapter 11 ICT INTEGRATION AND APPLICATION IN KENYA'S EDUCATION SYSTEM: AN ASSESSMENT OF POLICIES
STRATEGIES AND CHALLENGES Alex Sekwat
Tennessee State University Chapter 12 ICT AS A FACILITATOR OF A NEW BREED OF EDUCATIONAL MODALITIES: A REVIEW OF CURRICULA REFORMS
IMPROVING IN-SERVICE TEACHER TRAINING
AND REINFORCING NON-FORMAL AND DISTANCE EDUCATION APPROACHES IN GHANA Matilda Yeboah-Fofie
Bowie State University Chapter 13 CLOUD COMPUTING AS AN ENABLER FOR GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS Felix Njeh
Bowie State University Chapter 14 ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE CHANGE: A STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF NEW INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE IN CENTRAL AFRICA Isaiah Ayafor
Bowie State University Chapter 15 NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING: CHALLENGES FOR HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTIONS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Elizabeth O. Yoloye
Lead City University
Ibadan
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