AVAILABILITY OF ICT FACILITIES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING IN SHEHU IDRIS COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY, MAKARFI, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to identify the availability of ICT facilities for teaching and learning in Shehu Idris College of Health Sciences and Technology, Makarfi, Kaduna State, Nigeria. The Quantitative research methods as well as descriptive survey research design were adopted for this study. The population of this study comprised the entire students and lecturers (75 & 15) in the School of General and Applied Sciences, particularly, Health Information Management Department of Shehu Idris College of Health Sciences and Technology, Makarfi. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire; the researcher sought the respondents to rate each of the options on a 4 point Likert scale in the tables for answering the research question numbers two and three. The instrument was subjected to face validity by the three experts and the reliability coefficient obtained through a pilot study was 0.82 and data were analyzed using descriptive statistics particularly frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The findings revealed that, ICT facilities that are commonly available for enhancing teaching and learning are computer, internet, e-mail services, computer laboratory and social network. The study also found out that. It was also discovered that majority of the respondents highly utilizes ICT facilities for enhancing learning activities in the college computer laboratory, college business center, college library & college Internet centers. It is recommended that other ICT facilities such as radio, television set, scanner machine, photocopier machine, public address system, video conferences should be provide by the management of the college for easy facilitating teaching and learning.