KNOWLEDGE, ACCESSIBILITY AND USE OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) AMONG STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF NURSING SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, ENUGU CAMPUS

📄 Project Abstract

People over time have devised various techniques for communicating their thoughts, needs and desires to others. In early civilized times, people achieved adequate communication through speech and written messages. Communication in teaching and learning situation were mainly done using a teacher-centered education system in the past few years (Adeyinka, Adedeji, Majekodunmi, Adika & Adeyinka, 2011) when the conventional way of teaching was the order of the day. The teacher was seen as the sole source of knowledge and the students were mere receipients of his/her information. Chalk and talk methods were used in delivering lectures to students and pupils in schools. The emergence of information communication technology (ICT) has affected all aspects of life (Nadira, Kamal & Banu, 2010). ICT has become an indispensable part of our contemporary world. No wonder the use of such terms as e-nursing, e-commerce, e- banking, e-medicine, e-government, e-learning and e-education just to men...