Awareness of Students on the Usefulness of ICT Tools in Education: The Case of EMU IT Students

Educational technology importance and its use is widely becoming a norm in the traditional classroom, by both learners and teachers respectively. The significance of this dissertation focused on investigating EMU IT students‘ awareness on the usefulness and use of ICT tools. This dissertation also studied various students‘ awareness and other factors like skills in usage of ICT tools, purpose of usage etc., based on age, gender and class levels of the participants. The study also elaborates the basic trends of ICT, and the sync between ICT and education for pedagogical development. Data were elicited from participants through the use of questionnaires and interview questions. 120 Participants were all analyzed based on gender, age and class level on the awareness of ICT. Analyses were carried out on the gathered data using t-test, ANOVA, standard deviations and percentages. Also significant differences were conducted on variable factors based on participant‘s demographic characteristics. The findings of this dissertation proved the awareness of EMU IT students on the usefulness of ICT tools are on a high scale and there were no significant differences on their awareness of ICT use and e-learning based on age, gender and class level. In a slim case, some data proved the existence of a significant difference on the awareness of student on usefulness of ICT and its use based on class levels. Keywords Instructional Technology, Distance Education, E-learning, Information Communication Technology, Perception.