Higher Education ICT Integration in Africa
Readiness, Implementation and Trajectory
Contributor(s)
Yu, Ke (editor)
Dlamini, Reuben (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
ICT Integration; Higher Education Institutions; Higher Education; Technology; Africa; Readiness; Academic readiness; Implementation; Trajectory; African universities; Rwanda; Kenya; South Africa; Uganda; Blended learning; multilevel user analysis; multilevel readiness framework; e-assessment; PowerHEDA; 4IR readinessDOI
10.4324/9781003394877ISBN
9781040124093, 9781003394877, 9781032489728, 9781040124185, 9781040124093Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
Oxford, 2025Imprint
RoutledgeClassification
Regional / International studies
Computer science
Economics
Social groups, communities and identities
Politics and government
Higher education, tertiary education
Educational equipment and technology, computer-aided learning (CAL)
Open learning, distance education
Educational strategies and policy
Philosophy and theory of education
Regional geography
Information technology: general topics
Research and development management