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Authors:
Ezeja Ogili
Keywords: Keywords-ICT; Distance Education; Technological tools; Information age.
Abstract:
Abstract - As Information Communication Technology has become more and more popular in our life, researchers have begun to focus attention on its potentialities in the running of Polytechnic Distance Education Programmes for the development of superstructures. The Enugu State Broadcasting Service and Institute of Management and Technology in 1978 collaboratively established the first Higher National Diploma Certificate Radio Programmes in Nigeria. This paper discusses the uses of Information Communication Technology in the running of Polytechnic Distance Education Programmes in the 21st Century. Also, its features, rationale, implementations, and challenges will be discussed. Recommendations will also be made. There will be some showcasing of the impact of Information Communication Technology is presented on what is learned, when, where and how, and how teaching and learning takes place. This is to foster a generation of technological tools and technology-based information age. It has not been as extensive in distance education as it is in other fields in Nigeria, hence this study.
Pages: 51 to 56
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014
Publication date: March 23, 2014
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4367
ISBN: 978-1-61208-328-5
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Dates: from March 23, 2014 to March 27, 2014