Adoption of ICT in higher education: A review

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Education has been identified as a tool to undertake several research activities. ICT has brought about dramatic changes both in the learning needs and the way learning opportunities are offered. The term information and communication technology (ICT) encompasses all the computerized teaching systems, such as CD-ROM, as well as all the telecommunication systems, such as web and video conferencing. Higher education sector over the last decade has seen the rise to a multiplicity of new organizational structures designed for meeting new challenges. All of them would like to exploit the developments in information and communication technology to design, manage and to deliver courses and training modules. This paper concluded that ICT adoption in higher education acts as a trigger towards enhancing teaching and learning processes in educational institutions worldwide.