BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF DIGITALIZATION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC HIGHER INSTITUTIONS IN RIVERS STATE

Abstract

Digitalization of the management of higher education institutions (HEI) in this era of globalization is essential if higher education institutions want to be relevant, proactive, knowledge- driven and effective in impacting valuable skills to their students and contributing to national development. This paper examined the benefits and challenges of digitalization of management of public higher education institutions in Rivers State. To achieve this, the paper contained an introduction where most of the key words were explained. It went further to examine and explain the major concepts in the study. The approaches/mechanisms of digitalization of higher education institutions; the benefits of digitalization of HEI; the challenges of digitalization of HEI.  The scholar concluded the study and suggested that government in collaboration with TETFund and NCC should purchase and distribute enough computers, ICT gadgets, internet facilities and digital equipment to all the public HEI in Rivers State in order to facilitate their digitalization process.