INTEGRATION OF DIGITALIZATION IN EDUCATIONAL PLANNING

Abstract

In this present age of digitalization, several ingenious ICT applications, systems and devices are applied at various locations across the educational landscape yielding great results because it is obvious that digitalization has profoundly transformed both the objectives of education and the means of their achievement. By the way of achieving the objectives of education in Nigeria, educational planning stands at the forefront to make conscious and deliberate decisions on how to attain set educational goals and objectives. Essentially, there is a need for humanely-inspired and digitally-comfortable educational planners and practitioners to creatively ponder on the best approach to re structure the educational systems in Nigeria in order to serve and help shape the nation in order to conform to the ever-evolving global world. Education planning in Nigeria should no longer focus on formal education only, but also on informal learning and virtual learning, making learning more equitable, ethical, enjoyable and far less economics-bound, test-oriented, work-load dominated. Specifically, educational planners in Nigeria should explore the means of digitization in school programs which involves the applications of digital technologies in teaching and learning process and in order to be effective and efficient in the planning process there is a need to integrate digitalization. Therefore, this paper examined the need for digitalization in Nigeria’s education system and planning process, the application of digitalization in educational planning and challenges of digitalization in educational planning in Nigeria.