Predictors of lecturers’ attitude and access to use of information and communication technology in teaching agriculture in universities in south-south Nigeria

The purpose of this study was to assess the predictors of Lecturers' attitudes and access to the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching agriculture in Universities in South-South Nigeria. Ex-post facto design was adopted for the study. The study answered two research questions and tested two null hypotheses and was carried out in Universities in South-South Nigeria. The population of the study was 395 lecturers and a multistage sampling technique was used to sample 199 Agriculture lecturers in five states in the South-South zone of Nigeria.  Data were collected using a structured questionnaire designed on a 4-point and analyzed using mean and standard deviation for research questions and t-test for the hypotheses. The result revealed among others that, predictors of agriculture lecturers' access to the use of ICT are adequate skill in operating ICT facilities, availability of ICT facilities, and internet connectivity while factors that predict lecturers' attitude towards the use of ICT in teaching agriculture were availability of ICT, having an adequate skill for operating ICT facilities, and having adequate time allocated for the lecture among others. The study recommended among others that there is a need to ensure that ICT facilities available to the agriculture lecturers for teaching should be periodically upgraded to be at par with current digital technologies. To this end, collaboration with institutions of higher learning in technologically advanced countries should be fostered by institutions covered by this study to benefit lecturers, students, and the academic community at large.