Nigerian Undergraduate Students' Computer Competencies and Use of Information Technology Tools and Resources for Study Skills and Habits' Enhancement

Background

ICT integration among higher institution students particularly in Nigeria has attracted attentions through various studies. For example, Odusanya and Bamgbala (2002) reported ICT uses among final year students at the University of Lagos-Nigeria; Jagboro (2003) reported on postgraduate students’ use of the Internet to search for academic materials at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Similarly, Ajuwon (2003) reported high rate of regular use of the Internet by medical and nursing students at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria and Bello, Arogundade, Sanusi, Ezeoma, Abioye-Kuteyi and Akinsola (2004) also reported that a lower percentage of respondents demonstrated good knowledge of computers and IT at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Ezekoka and Nwosu (2010) also reported that ICT has been found to be very useful in the teaching and learning processes among Nigerian students because of the extensive capacity to store and manipulate information as well as its unmatched ability to serve simultaneously many individual students in different locations as supplementary to classroom instruction. While writing of ICT policy framework, Adomi and Kpangban (2010) observed that the National Policy on Education (Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2004) recognizes the prominent role of ICTs in the modern world and advocated for its integration into the Nigeria educational system especially at the post primary and higher education levels.