Quixotic Potentialities of Information Communication Technology in the Running of Polytechnic Distance Education Programs in Nigeria

摘要

As Information Communication Technology (ICT) has become more and more popular in our life, researchers have begun to focus attention on its potentialities in the running of Polytechnic Distance Education Programs for the development of superstructures. In 1978, The Enugu State Broadcasting Service and Institute of Management and Technology collaboratively established the first Higher National Diploma Certificate Radio Program in Nigeria. This paper discusses the uses of Information Communication Technology in the running of Polytechnic Distance Education Program in the 21st Century. Also, its features, rationale, implementations, and challenges, as well as recommendations, are discussed. The impact of ICT is presented on what is learned, when, where and how, and how teaching and learning take place. This is to foster a generation of technological tools and technology-based information age. It has not been as extensive in distance education as it is in other fields in Nigeria, hence this study.