Abstract

Education is a very socially oriented activity and quality education has traditionally been associated with strong teachers having high degrees of personal contact with students and technologies. Information and communication technologies (ICT’s) have become common place entities in all aspects of life. The integration of ICT into teaching-learning practices is becoming more and more important and this importance will continue to grow and develop in the 21^st century.  The focus of this paper is to examine the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in higher education. There has been an unprecedented growth in the use of ICTs in teaching, research and extension activities. The sudden boom in Information Technology has transformed the way how knowledge is disseminated today, one of the changes it has brought about is the way how teachers interact and communicate with the students and vice-versa.