Influence of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Sports and Exercise among University Students in Nigeria

Abstract

Information and communication technology (ICT) is “Global community” in which people can communicate, interact on video either singly or with groups across the globe as if they are living in the same place. This work was done mainly to find out the relationship between ICT, Sport and exercise in Kogi State University, Anyigba. Descriptive research design was adopted for this study. The population comprises of all the sports and Exercise men and women across six faculties in Kogi State University, Anyigba. Total enumerations were employed to select all the four hundred and ninety sports men and women, including the weekend exercise performer. The descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the research hypothesis of the study and correlation to check if there is any significant relationship between ICT, Sport and Exercise at 0.05 level of significant. The sample size for this research work is 490 target audiences. Simple random sampling technique was used to select six faculties out of eight in Kogi State University, Anyigba. The findings indicated that there are significant relationships in the types of ICT with r value of .608, there are significant relationships in the challenges of using ICT with r value of .488 and there are significant relationships in the possible solutions to the identified challenges of using ICT in sports and Exercise in Kogi State University, Anyigba with r value of .244 respectively. It was recommended amongst others that The State and Management of the institution should train all lecturers, Coaches and Sport personnel for optimal teaching to be disseminated.