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Integrating Information Communication Technologies (ICT) with Information Literacy & Library-Use-Instructions in Nigerian Universities
Leveraging Developing Economies with the Use of Information Technology: Trends and Tool
(2014)
Abstract
Curriculum contents in developing economies like Nigeria has the objectives of developing students’ higher order thinking skills, ability to acquire and utilize learning sources in the library, develop adequate competence in the use of needed information among others. It should aim as developing technological capability for handling information that would achieve these objectives. This study evaluates the information literacy and library-use programmes introduced in Nigerian universities to achieve the aforementioned objectives. An empirical work done on three Nigerian Universities, as a sample, compares their curriculum contents and explores ways that information technology can be integrated into them. Among the study findings is inadequate attention paid to information and technology literacy. One of the study’s recommendations is to give adequate attention to information and technology literacy without loading the students with unnecessary library technicalities, as the study found out. The study also presented curriculum structures that can improve the situation.
Disciplines
Publication Date
May 11, 2014
DOI
10.5281/zenodo.5403800
Citation Information
Aniebiet Inyang Ntui, Abel Usoro and Eno Joseph Ottong. "Integrating Information Communication Technologies (ICT) with Information Literacy & Library-Use-Instructions in Nigerian Universities" Leveraging Developing Economies with the Use of Information Technology: Trends and Tool (2014) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/aniebiet_ntui/42/
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