The Impact of Ict on Students’ Study Habits. Case Study: University of Buea, Cameroon

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The impact of ICT on students’ study habits. Case study: University of Buea, Cameroon
Tah Babila Mbah
Fon's Street, Bamenda, P. O. Box 422, Bamenda NWR, Cameroon. E-mail: [e-mail]. Tel: [phone].
Accepted 19 September, 2010

This research aimed at investigating the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on students’ study habits. The research was conducted with two main purposes; Firstly, to investigate students’ familiarity and attitude towards ICTs, and secondly, to examine the possible relationship between students’ use of ICTs and study habits. The results revealed that students have a positive attitude towards ICTs as such use them to facilitate learning, although male students are more favourable toward ICT usage and likely to find that ICT’s help them at their studies. As such students constantly change their study habits based on the type of ICT they use to ease studies. Key words: Teaching, learning, study habits, information and communication technology (ICT). INTRODUCTION The impact of ICT on learning is currently in relation to use of digital media, primarily computers and internet to facilitate teaching and learning. ICTs are the technologies used in conveying, manipulation and storage of data by electronic means, they provide an array of powerful tools that may help in transforming the present isolated teacher-centered and text-bound classrooms into rich, student-focused, interactive knowledge environments. To meet these challenges, learning institutions must embrace the new technologies and appropriate ICT tools for learning. The direct link between ICT use and students’ study habit and academic performance has been the focus of extensive literature during the last two decades. Some of them help students with their

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