1. Home
  2. Vol 4, No 3 (2016)
  3. Rahman

USE OF ICTs IN AGRICULTURAL HIGHER EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY OF THE FACULTY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF GEZIRA, SUDAN

Ahmed M. A. Rahman

Abstract


The purpose of present study was to investigate the use of ICTs in agricultural education in University of Gezira ,Sudan. Data were collected from 90 purposively selected teachers of university with the help of questionnaire administered through face to face interviews. Findings revealed that the majority of teachers used the ICT irregularly because of the lack of them in the majority of the class rooms, therefore they used instead of them the traditional boards such as blackboard and greenboard. It can be concluded that the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Gezira, Sudan is still using the conventional systems of higher education as in public universities in developing world. Thus, the faculty members should be motivated, empowered and supported in order to use the available ICTs in their teaching activities, the constraints which are facing the use of ICTs in the teaching and learning process in the faculty should be solved and integrating the use of ICTs into the faculty`s strategies and  policy planning.


Keywords


Information and communication technologies (ICTs),Education, Agricultural higher education , Sudan.

References


Adeoye, Y. M., Oluwole, A. F., & Blessing, L. A. (2013). Appraising the Role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) as a Change Agent for Higher Education in Nigeria. International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 5(8), 177-183.

Carnoy, M. (2004). ICT in education: Possibilities and challenges. Lección inaugural del curso académico, 2005.

Husseini, S. Mahmood & Leila, S. (2009). Factors Affecting the Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by Iranian Agricultural Faculty Members. World Applied Sciences Journal, 6 (8), 1123-1127.

Hennessy, S., Harrison, D., & Wamakote, L. (2010). Teacher factors influencing classroom use of ICT in Sub-Saharan Africa. Itupale online journal of African studies, 2(1), 39-54.

James, O. (2013). Strategies for Enhancing the Teaching of ICT in Business Education Programmes as Perceived by Business Education Lecturers in Universities in South South Nigeria. International Education Studies, 6(10), 78.

Jannet, A. O. & Melody N. M. (2014). Academic Staff Challenges to Effective Utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Teaching/Learning of Agricultural Education. International Letters of Social and Humanistic Science, 13, 88-96.

Clark, J. (2010). Best practices research summary. Sun Associates.

Siddiqi, S. (2014). Understanding the Importance, Impact and Berries of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Higher Education. Indian Journal of Applied Reseach,4 (6),157-159.

Talibian, S, Hamid M.M. & Ahmed R. (2014). Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Higher Education: Advantages, Disadvantages, Conveniences and Limitations of Applying E-learning to Agricultural Students in Iran. Procedia- Social and Behavioral Sciences, 152, 300-305.

Toro, U. (2012). ICT in higher education: Review of Literature from the Period 2004-2011.International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology, 3(1), 20-23.

Zaman, M. A., & Hossain, S. I. (2012). Status of Internet use for Higher Education and Research in Agricultural Sciences. The Agriculturists, 10(1), 38-45.


Full Text: PDF

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2017 Ahmed M. A. Rahman

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.