ICT REINFORCEMENT FACTORS AS CORRELATE OF LECTURERS’ UTILISATION OF ICT IN CURRICULUM CONTENT DELIVERY IN A NIGERIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Owing it to the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on educational development, the Nigerian government continues to invest in ICT infrastructure in Universities. Despite, it appears that lecturers are not well accustomed with the use of ICT. This could have resulted from the lack of provision of critical support factors. It is against this backdrop that the study investigated the influence of ICT reinforcement factors on lecturers’ utilisation of ICT in curriculum content delivery in University of Lagos. A correlational survey research design was adopted for the study. Three hypotheses guided the study. The population for the study comprised of 1473 lecturers from University of Lagos. The sample size of the study was 315 ascertained using Taro Yamane formula. The study adopted a multi-stage sampling procedure. Simple random sampling was used to select seven faculties; afterwards stratified proportionate sampling technique was used to select participants across the seven faculties. Researchers constructed, validated and reliable (r= 0.76) questionnaire was used for data collection.  Linear regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study found out that capacity building, technology specialist support and monitoring and evaluation significantly influenced lecturers’ utilisation of ICT in curriculum content delivery in University of Lagos. The study therefore, recommended that University management should: collaborate with the quality assurance unit to ensure monitoring and evaluation exercises; employ the services of technical support staff to provide professional help to lecturers; and organise capacity building in the area of ICT for lecturers.