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.
By:
Cosmas Uchenna Nwokeafor
Imprint: University Press of America
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 231mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 435g
ISBN: 9780761865360
ISBN 10: 0761865365
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 24 February 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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, Nigeria INDEX CONTRIBUTORS EDITOR
Cosmas UchennaNwokeafor is professor of mass communication at Bowie State University where he currently serves as dean of the graduate school. He has also served as provost fellow and assistant provost for graduate studies at Bowie State University.
Reviews for Information Communication Technology (ICT) Integration to Educational Curricula: A New Direction for Africa
Volumes of this nature are timely because within the past decade ICTs have become an essential part of the fabric of society...Nwokeafor's book is very welcome, as an ICT driven social and economic development in Africa is urgently needed...Cosmos Uchenna Nwokeafor's book adds to the few studies on the integration of ICT into African educational curricula by scholars outside South Africa and it is to be commended. African Studies Quarterly It gives me much pleasure to endorse this work, the progress of which I had the privilege of following from time to time and with great interest. Information Communication Technology is of great importance to Africa-nay, developing countries of the world. The fifteen-chapter piece is a work that cannot fail to provoke thought; written positively yet with restraint, it makes a balanced presentation of the various topics that it deals with and comes to conclusions that are defensible even where controversial. I recommend this textbook very highly. -- Christian Nwachukwu Okeke, professor of law and director of the LLM and SJD international programs in international legal studies at Golden Gate University School of Law
