Full Description
This multidisciplinary, edited volume examines higher educations' ICT integration in Africa, contributing a new and inclusive change readiness framework to better understand how to manage ICT or other technological disruptions in resource-restrained contexts.
Tackling ICT incorporation in HEIs from different levels, chapters document case studies from countries such as Uganda, South Africa, Rwanda, Eswatini and Zimbabwe to demonstrate both the complexity of integration but also the successes it has enabled and under which conditions. The cases included in this book also exhibit better incorporation of both change content and process, while some cases also make explicit reference to other technology adoption models. Ultimately, the book highlights conceptual and empirical research to inform practices and policy development in Africa, improving multi-level success or change readiness in ICT incorporation in HEIs in Africa.
Addressing various gaps in existing literature and proposing innovative solutions like the multilevel change readiness model, this book will therefore be of interest to scholars, researchers and academics in the fields of higher education, ICT integration, and educational technology more broadly.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Digital-Centric Higher Education an African Perspective
Chapter 2: Multilevel change readiness: theoretical exploration of existing models and proposal
Chapter 3: Absence of a National Policy: ICT Incorporation in Uganda's Higher Education Institutions
Chapter 4: Policy imperatives for ICT in South African Higher Education
Chapter 5: ICT Readiness, Implementation and Trajectory in Higher Education in Rwanda
Chapter 6: Data-driven decision making through PowerHEDA: the case for multilevel data architecture in South African higher education institutions
Chapter 7: Exploring Academic Readiness for ICT Intergration Pedagogy at the University of Eswantini
Chapter 8: The Evolution of ICTs Incorporation at the University of Johannesburg
Chapter 9: Rethinking ICT integration in teacher education curricula at Diploma Level in Zimbabwe
Chapter 10: Transforming assessment in teacher education programmes: from static, conventional assessment to flexible e-assessment
Conclusion: Higher Education ICT Integration in Africa
