Administrative and Staff Readiness for Potential Use of ICT in Education: The Case of College of Education, AAU
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2007-05
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Addis Ababa Univerisity
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This work presents an investigation of ICT policy of AA U and preparedness of College of
Education to integrate ICT into the teaching-learning process. The ICT policy of the
University and the readiness of the administrative bodies of the College of Education to
integrate ICT were investigated using interview and document analysis. Preparedness of
the teaching staff of the College of Education in terms of ICT use, awareness of emerging
ICTs, attitude towards ICT and competency(skill) in the use of emerging ICTs were
studied using questionnaire. The data obtained through interview and document analysis
were analyzed qualitatively while the one obtained through the questionnaire was
analyzed using frequency tables and graphs. It was found that ICT policy is currently
non-existent at AA U It was, however, found that the University was on the way of
developing ICT policy. The .findings also showed that the majority of the teaching staff
were using ICTs particularly computers (96.9%) and internet (95.7%). Most of the
teaching staffs (93.4%) were found to be using computers daily. As of the competence of
the teaching staff on some of the basic ICT applications the study exhibited that the
perception of the majority was promising especially on word processing, emailing and
internet browsing. The teaching staff and the management team were also found to have
positive attitude towards ICT in education. An investigation of the College's
infrastructure readiness revealed that there was a serious problem of access to ICTs by
the students i.e. the current ICTs were only serving the teaching staff and the
administrative offices. The ICT integration level -at AA U, College of Education was seen in light of a proposed ICT integration model. It was f ound that the characteristics of the
College of Education resemble a typical institution at the first phase, Emerging Phase, of
the proposed ICT integration model. It was, so, recommended that the College of
Education needs to work hard to meaningfully integrate ICT into the education sy tem so
that movement to the next phases, applying, integrating and transforming could be
possible .
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