Acquisition and utilization of ICT skills among University Students in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case of Universities in Kenya
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to investigate Kenyan university students’ skills
and practices of using information and communication technologies (ICT).
Views about the importance of ICT were also evaluated. One hundred and
fifty students responded to a self-report questionnaire. The students were from
10 universities that use ICT in various forms and represented both public
and private universities in Kenya. From the analysis, there emerged three
constructs that represented these students’ interactions with and perceptions
on ICT. The first construct entailed the view that computer assisted learning
makes the learning process more meaningful and motivates one towards further
learning. Competence in using ICT emerged as the second construct, along with
intensive use of ICT at home in addition to networking with expert cultures
and tutoring other people to improve their ICT skills. The third construct was
the intensity of using ICT and this seemed to be determined by the availability
of equipment and the extent to which ICT is used rather than by a student’s
expertise in ICT.
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Citation
Journal of Continuing, Open and Distance Education Volume 2, Issue 1, July 2012Publisher
The School of Continuing and Distance Education, University of Nairobi
Subject
Computer skillsStudents’ ICT skills
Educational use of ICT
Student experts
ICT support for learning
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- Faculty of Education (FEd) [1042]