ICT Education for Teachers and ICT Supported Instruction: Problems and Prospects in the Nigerian Education System

Abstract

Education is perceived in this piece as a process of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training and research. ICT has a very significant place in the education process that involves teachers and instruction. This paper therefore, focuses on: ICT education for teachers and ICT supported instruction: problems and prospects in the Nigeria education system. The paper posits that information and communication technology is today navigating both the processes and actions in industries, organizations and especially the education system. Information communication technologies used in education were therefore pointed out in this paper. The essence or relevance of ICT education for teachers was explicitly discussed. Equally, the various strategies information and communication technologies are used to support instructional delivery, as well as the associated problems of ICT applications in education were also reviewed. To dress this piece further, the prospects of ICT application in Nigeria education system was equally covered. The paper concludes that the major challenge of knowledge-base economy is that the system is driven by electronics. Thus, if education could be used to achieve any meaningful development with regards to the challenge of the knowledge based economy, the provision of ICT education for teachers and for instructional deliver y needs to be pursued vigorously through the education system.