Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Utilization and Implementation on Adult Education Programmes
CHAPTER ONE
Purpose Of The Study
The purpose of this study is to determine Information And Communication Technology (Ict) Utilization And Implementation On Adult Education Programmes. Other specific objectives are:
- To determine the usefulness of Information and communication technology resources on adult education delivery in Lagos state.
- To determine the efficiency and effectiveness of Information and communication technology on adult education delivery in Lagos state.
- To determine the challenges associated with the application of Information and communication technology in the practice of adult education.
- To determine the extent to which information and communication technology is utilized in adult education delivery.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEWED OF RELATED LITERATURE
CONCEPT OF ADULT EDUCATION
In an attempt to examine the concept of Adult Education, I think it is important to offer first a mundane explanation of what Adult Education ordinarily is. One finds that when a student’s of adult education is asked what Adult Education is, he starts trying, often clumsily to recall one or some of the formal definitions and is unable to give an intelligent ordinary explanation of what the discipline is all about. Yet, the students could easily say that, just as the education of children and the youth goes on in any society. Conspicuously because formal institutions at various levels are associated with the sector of education, so also does education of the adults goes on in most societies. Unhappily, in this case, not so conspicuously (but not any less intensely) because the ways in which sector of education is carried out are diverse, even diffuse and not as concrete as those of youth education. Okenimkpe (2004)
I could remember vividly during my first year in university of Lagos when my lecturer will ask me to define adult education. As a novice, so I’ll say. “Adult Education is the education provision for the adult or I will say adult education is the act or process of educating the adult. And so, from my definition one could see that I try to merge the key concept together i.e. (Adult and Education) to generate a sentence that will form a whole. But now if I want to define the concept in just a simple form then I will say Adult Education is an education provision for early leavers, or those who do not have a taste of formal education and the adults (lettered and the unlettered). As I move on in the study of adult education, my knowledge and scope begin to expand to give a comprehensive view of the concept which I say “Adult Education serve as tool for conscientizing and liberating people irrespective of your age, status and sex from shackles of ignorance in becoming useful to yourself and family as well as contributing to the development of your society and the nation at large. In other word different perspectives can be chipped-in in giving a definition of the concept as there were no universally acceptable definitions of the concept of Adult Education.
For the purpose of this research work, I think I need to save my breath and offer some of the formal definitions of the concept. Therefore, the two United Nations education scientific and cultural organization (UNESCO) definitions (1976 and 1997) will be examined.
“The term adult education denotes the entire body of organized educational processes, whatever the content, level and method, whether they prolong or replace initial education in schools, colleges and universities as well as in apprenticeship, whereby persons regarded as adult by the society to which they belong develop their abilities, enrich their knowledge, improve their technical or professional qualification or turn them in a new direction and bring about changes in their attitudes or behavior in the two folds perspectives of full personal development and participation in balanced and independent social, economic and cultural development”.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, we described the research procedure for this study. A research methodology is a research process adopted or employed to systematically and scientifically present the results of a study to the research audience viz. a vis, the study beneficiaries.
RESEARCH DESIGN
Research designs are perceived to be an overall strategy adopted by the researcher whereby different components of the study are integrated in a logical manner to effectively address a research problem. In this study, the researcher employed the survey research design. This is due to the nature of the study whereby the opinion and views of people are sampled. According to Singleton & Straits, (2009), Survey research can use quantitative research strategies (e.g., using questionnaires with numerically rated items), qualitative research strategies (e.g., using open-ended questions), or both strategies (i.e., mixed methods). As it is often used to describe and explore human behaviour, surveys are therefore frequently used in social and psychological research.
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents the analysis of data derived through the questionnaire and key informant interview administered on the respondents in the study area. The analysis and interpretation were derived from the findings of the study. The data analysis depicts the simple frequency and percentage of the respondents as well as interpretation of the information gathered. A total of eighty (80) questionnaires were administered to respondents of which only seventy-seven (77) were returned and validated. This was due to irregular, incomplete and inappropriate responses to some questionnaire. For this study a total of 77 was validated for the analysis.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1 Introduction
It is important to ascertain that the objective of this study was to ascertain Information And Communication Technology (Ict) Utilization And Implementation On Adult Education Programmes. In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing Information And Communication Technology (Ict) Utilization And Implementation On Adult Education Programmes
Summary
This study was on Information And Communication Technology (Ict) Utilization And Implementation On Adult Education Programmes. Three objectives were raised which included: To determine the usefulness of Information and communication technology resources on adult education delivery in Lagos state, to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of Information and communication technology on adult education delivery in Lagos state, to determine the challenges associated with the application of Information and communication technology in the practice of adult education and to determine the extent to which information and communication technology is utilized in adult education delivery.. A total of 77 responses were received and validated from the enrolled participants where all respondents were drawn from selected adult education centers in Lagos state. Hypothesis was tested using Chi-Square statistical tool (SPSS).
Conclusion
It is evident from the findings of this research work that information and communication technology has contributed immensely to the delivery of adult education programmes. There is remarkable rise in the use of ICT, many of adult education programmes and activities are now ICT driven talk of Correspondence education, Extension education programme etc. This has led to the speed on acquisition, processing, programming and dissemination operations. Information and communication technology has also help to curb the problem of information explosion in this information era, it has help to improve the planning, running, management and administration of Adult Education programmes.
5.3 RECOMMENDATIONS
Arising from the findings and conclusion are the following recommendations.
- More generous financial support should be made available by the government to provide the basic ICT infrastructural facilities.
- Short computer training and retraining programmes should be organized from time-to-time to assist adult facilitators, educators, Extension Agents etc who do not have knowledge and computer skills. This will also aid awareness of computer potentials and capabilities.
- Effective and efficient power supply should be provided to check the menace of frequent electricity power failure and more so electricity gadget should be worked on so as to avoid interrupted network. In the same vein, the government should address the problem of erratic power supply more seriously not through military order but through research and development.
- Since information and communication technology has come to stay, educators both Para-professionals and professionals that are not computer literate should take positive steps to remedy their deficiency so as to flow along with the reforms. By this, adult education programmes and services will become ennobled through the acquisition of adequate ICT knowledge/skill and its full application in and outside the university or else they will become irrelevant in this era of information and communication technology.
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