Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Effective Management of Education in Nigeria: Empirical Analysis of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State

Globalization have enhanced the emergency of Information and communication technologies (ICTs)  as a veritable tools for educational change and reform processes through improving both access to education and the quality of that education. The research study evaluated the impact of information and communication Technology (ICT) on effective management of education in Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU), Abia State. T he general objective of this research is to examine the impacts of integrating ICTs in management of education in Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, Abia State. The specific objective includes ascertaining the impacts of PC utilization in the instruction materials developments of lecturers and effective management of education in Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike. The researchers adopted Survey research design to make use of qualitative and quantitative evaluation; collect relevant and substantive data. Primary and secondary sources were used. The study used 276 respondents. The use of questionnaire was employed to gather necessary and relevant data from the respondents. Questionnaire was designed to collect the data on the factors related to Pc Utilization, Internet Utilization and PC networking and interconnectivity utilization . The data was analyzed using inferential and descriptive statistics with the aid of Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS) version 20. The descriptive statistics involves frequency table, likert Scale while the hypotheses were tested using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).  The results showed that all the independent variables have positive significant relationship with the dependent variable (effective management of education). The researchers concluded that information and communication technology play a crucial role in effective management of education despite the challenges in its application in the institution and recommended that government should increase the funding towards appropriate procurement of ICT equipments in the institution and ICT should be integrated in all aspect of university education management.