USE OF ICT IN INFORMATION DISSEMINATION IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY AND ITS EFFECTS

Information And Communication Technology plays a vital role in how information is been shared among the people but it has effects on student . It also plays a vital role in universities and polytechnics whereby information is delivered through many platforms such as whatsapp, telegram, goggle classroom and facebook which makes communication faster and more efficient between student and lecturer.

Most students uses different platforms to disseminate you information for faster communication and it helps student to access information online such as checking their results on their portals, online libraries and research materials.

The effects on the usage of Information And Communication Technology (ICT) both student in universities and polytechnics . It has both positive and negative effect . The positive effects of Information And Communication Technology are:Information is delivered fasterIt avoid unnecessary delays but improves communication between student and lecturer It helps student to access information in different platforms It helps student to research their works online for their project work It helps student to get access to digital libraries and journals for academic materials

It also have the negative effect of its such as:Poor network connection: This occurs when student uses different network to communicate leads to slow delivery of information . Poor or epileptic power supply can interrupt communication .Information can be delayed due to certain reasons such as students who cannot afford data for their phones.Social media platforms also has effects on the students whereby students doesn’t pay attention to lecturer but rather play games, watch tiktok, Instagram, Facebook,and Snapchat .

In conclusion, ICT helps in the dissemination of information both positive and negative way . In the positive way, we can see that students and lecturers has the privilege to access information on campus and around the world. The negative way deals with the disadvantages of what ICT does to the students that are on campus which is their academic results begins to reduce which eventually leads to drop out.