Intégration pédagogique des technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC) en pédagogie médicale à l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar au Sénégal
Information and communication technology (ICT) has pride of place in the university arsenal of teaching tools. This thesis investigates how the University Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) in Dakar, Senegal strengthened their medical program by prescribing an ICT integration policy. Our objectives were to examine teachers’ perceptions of how ICT was integrated into the medical program, determine how the teachers used ICT, and assess what is needed for effective ICT integration. We considered three research questions. 1) How did the FMPO teachers perceive the ICT integration into the medical education? 2) How did the teachers use ICT? 3) What is needed for effective ICT integration? We used a mixed research methodology that combined a quantitative and qualitative approach to collect data from medical teachers who volunteered to participate in this research. In all, 70 teachers responded to the survey and 15 others were interviewed. Our findings on UCAD’s ICT integration policy and process contribute to the knowledge on ICT integration by highlighting signs of progress in an emerging research field, namely ICT integration into education. Although this topic has been relatively neglected in our universities, it has become increasingly relevant as ever more teachers, with or without proper training, use ICT for teaching. This calls for official university frameworks to support ICT integration. The needs analysis performed in this study could serve as a roadmap for policy makers and administrators.
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