The Impact of Icts on Students Academic Performance at University
Am Mdulla Allen M. CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction
This chapter presents the background of the problem, problem statement, objective of the study, research questions, limitations of the study, and definitions of the key terms as going to be used by the researcher of this work.
1.1 Background of the problem
The development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is like a big challenge in Tanzania. This challenge, Tanzania has to overcome in order to provide quality education for all and ICT should be given high priority. The ministry of education and vocational training is promoting the introduction and interaction of ICT in the education sector in order to play an important part in improving the lives of people, students (learners) in creating a good a good performance and job opportunities in their future.
The main purpose of ICT is to create a highly skilled and educated peoples or learners in the everyday life. Due to this, it is good to provide ICT tools like internet, computer and network hardware and software and other equipment and services associated with these technologies in order to go similar with globalization.
So the integration of ICT in academic performance will help learners (students) to expanding learning opportunities and ensuring educational equality and relevance and many changes that occurring everyday in our lifelike globalization, education systems etc.
Also the impact of ICT on students’ academic performance at SAUT and CBE is currently in relation to use of digital media, primary computers and internet to facilitate in learning. This means that direct link between ICT 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 learning by improving the communication between them and instructors (lecturers) (valasidou and bousiou, 2005)
Barrat (1998) and Hinckley (2001) state that a central aim is to ensure students,
This chapter presents the background of the problem, problem statement, objective of the study, research questions, limitations of the study, and definitions of the key terms as going to be used by the researcher of this work.
1.1 Background of the problem
The development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is like a big challenge in Tanzania. This challenge, Tanzania has to overcome in order to provide quality education for all and ICT should be given high priority. The ministry of education and vocational training is promoting the introduction and interaction of ICT in the education sector in order to play an important part in improving the lives of people, students (learners) in creating a good a good performance and job opportunities in their future.
The main purpose of ICT is to create a highly skilled and educated peoples or learners in the everyday life. Due to this, it is good to provide ICT tools like internet, computer and network hardware and software and other equipment and services associated with these technologies in order to go similar with globalization.
So the integration of ICT in academic performance will help learners (students) to expanding learning opportunities and ensuring educational equality and relevance and many changes that occurring everyday in our lifelike globalization, education systems etc.
Also the impact of ICT on students’ academic performance at SAUT and CBE is currently in relation to use of digital media, primary computers and internet to facilitate in learning. This means that direct link between ICT 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 learning by improving the communication between them and instructors (lecturers) (valasidou and bousiou, 2005)
Barrat (1998) and Hinckley (2001) state that a central aim is to ensure students,