This document discusses the effectiveness of ICT in promoting teacher education and career development in Africa. It outlines the objectives of exploring how ICT benefits educational institutions and enhances educators' performance. While recognizing ICT's proven benefits, it notes that many African states like Uganda have not fully invested in ICT infrastructure for education. The methodology involved analyzing policy documents and internet searches of institutions. Key results found that ICT access ensured quality teaching and learning through capacity building and collaboration. It concludes that effective ICT deployment is imperative for modern institutions and recommends a five-level model for evaluating ICT use in classrooms from familiarization to evolution.

1. Effectiveness of ICT in Promoting
Teacher Education for Professional
Career Development in Africa
Presenting Author: Joseph Rwothumio
Authors:
Wilson Okaka 1, Joseph Rwothumio 2, Leticia Komba Rwakijuma 3
1, 2,3 Kyambogo University, Kyambogo, Kampala, Uganda
1 Tel:+256 782 588846 - Email: wokaka@kyu.ac.ug
2Tel: +256 772 843219 - Email: rwothumiojoseph@yahoo.com
3 Tel:+256 772592770- Email: leticiarwa@gmail.com
Rwothumio, Komba, & Okaka 23rd - 25th, October. 2017 – Hotel Africana, Kampala (Uganda)

2. Contents
 Introduction
 Objectives
 Problem Statement
 Methodology
 Results
 Conclusions
 Recommendations
 Acknowledgements
Rwothumio, Komba, & Okaka 23rd - 25th, October. 2017 – Hotel Africana, Kampala (Uganda)

3. Introduction
 A prudent investment expansion of effective
and efficient institutional ICT infrastructure
policy, strategic plan or master plan, facilities,
and unfettered ICT access to the end – users;
will rapidly promote the multiple prospects of
enhanced quality teacher education standard
performance for staff development options in
Uganda in particular and the rest of the sub –
Saharan African countries as a top priority.
Rwothumio, Komba, & Okaka 23rd - 25th, October. 2017 – Hotel Africana, Kampala (Uganda)

4. Objectives
 To explain the role of institutional ICT policy in
enhancing the quality of educators’ and learners’
performance for career development prospects;
 To explore the benefits of ICT in developing
institutional competitiveness in human resource
development cycle from inputs, process, outputs,
outcomes, impacts, and their sustainability;
 To innovate ICT – driven HEIs’ organisational
communication strategies for all the stakeholders or
clients (both the internal and external targets).
Rwothumio, Komba, & Okaka 23rd - 25th, October. 2017 – Hotel Africana, Kampala (Uganda)

5. Problem Statement
 Although it is widely known, proven, practised,
acclaimed, and massively popularised at all levels
of the society, in addition to the development of
the existing information society technology (IST);
most states in Africa (especially the sub-Saharan
region); have not yet fully invested in the full scale
expansion of effective national and institutional
ICT infrastructure to promote universal access to
quality teacher education services or professional
career development in African states like Uganda.
Rwothumio, Komba, & Okaka 23rd - 25th, October. 2017 – Hotel Africana, Kampala (Uganda)

6. Methodology
 This review was based on the analysis of relevant
policy documents from government and other
institutions and multiple internet searches of
institutions were done using search engines like
Google for more key data on the effectiveness and
efficiency of ICT applications in enhancing holistic
knowledge transfer for sustainable quality outputs.
 Documented evidence was scrutinized for more
relevance and the final data were then summarised
to inform the content of this paper presentation.
Rwothumio, Komba, & Okaka 23rd - 25th, October. 2017 – Hotel Africana, Kampala (Uganda)

7. Results
 ICT policy ensures effective deployment of ICT facilities for
enhanced ICT access as well as unfettered use, is very
crucial for quality, timely, convenient, and efficient service
delivery for teaching, learning, research, or community
service (outreach) activities with good outputs, outcomes,
and impacts for education for sustainable development.
 To this end, it promotes capacity, incentives, dedication,
job satisfaction, transparency, speed, accuracy, inclusive
coordination, networking, and collaboration that results in
both staff and institutional progress, effectiveness, and
efficiency that define an institutional competitiveness.
Rwothumio, Komba, & Okaka 23rd - 25th, October. 2017 – Hotel Africana, Kampala (Uganda)

8. Conclusions
 Effective deployment of ICT infrastructure is imperative for a
modern institution of learning especially HEIs like
universities and other tertiary institutions in African countries
like Uganda.
 The role of a sound ethical practice, capacity building,
gender equality mainstreaming, stakeholders’ information
communication coordination, quality assurance (QA), sound
budgets, mentorship, supervision, research, ICT access,
South – South, and North – South collaborations are vital.
 ICT teaching and learning should be professionally guided
by the specific curriculum content with ethical guidelines.
Rwothumio, Komba, & Okaka 23rd - 25th, October. 2017 – Hotel Africana, Kampala (Uganda)

9. Recommendations
 The following five-level model
could be employed to evaluate
the use of ICT in educational
technology in the classrooms.
 1. Familiarisation -
Mostly concerned with the
teachers’ initial exposure to
and experiences with the very
basics of the ICT technology
packages or applications.
 2. Utilisation - Teachers
apply the ICT technology or
innovation in the classrooms.
 3. Integration- Designate certain
tasks or responsibilities to enable total
classroom technology dependency
without which it is impossible to teach.
 4. Re-orientation- Teachers
need to reconceptualise the purpose
and function of the classroom. And to
facilitate students to construct and
shape their own knowledge and skills.
 5. Evolution- Teachers need to
know well that the education system
evolves and adapts to be as effective
as sustainable beyond the classrooms.
Rwothumio, Komba, & Okaka 23rd - 25th, October. 2017 – Hotel Africana, Kampala (Uganda)

10. Acknowledgements
 Conference Convenors, Secretariat & Special Committees;
 Conference Sponsors and Special Guests;
 Plenary Speakers and Other Invited Panellists;
 Session Chairs, Press, Rapporteurs,& other Guests;
 The Governments & Peoples of the Participating States;
 KYU Management, Administration, all Staff, and Students;
 Thank You for Your Kind Attention.
 May God Bless You All.
Rwothumio, Komba, & Okaka 23rd - 25th, October. 2017 – Hotel Africana, Kampala (Uganda)