Higher Education ICT Integration in Africa Readiness, Implementation and Trajectory

• Main Authors: Yu, Ke, Dlamini, Reuben
• Format: eBook Publication
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis 2025; Routledge
• Series: Perspectives on education in Africa
• Subjects: 4IR readiness; Academic readiness; Africa; African universities; Blended learning; Business and Management; Computer science; Computer Technology; Computers & Technology; Computing and Information Technology; Distance, Open & Online Education; e-assessment; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Economics; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Education; Education, Higher; Educational equipment and technology, computer-aided learning (CAL); Educational strategies and policy; Educational technology; Geography; Higher Education; Higher Education Institutions; Higher education, tertiary education; ICT Integration; Implementation; Information technology: general topics; Interdisciplinary studies; Kenya; KJMV6 Research and development management; Management and management techniques; Management of specific areas; multilevel readiness framework; multilevel user analysis; Nonfiction; Open learning, distance education; Philosophy and theory of education; Politics and government; PowerHEDA; Readiness; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Regional geography; Rwanda; Social groups, communities and identities; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; South Africa; Technology; Telecommunication in higher education; Trajectory; Uganda
• ISBN: 9781032489728; 9781040124185; 1032489723; 1040124097; 1040124186; 1003394876; 9781040124093; 9781003394877
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003394877

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.