Abstract
This study assessed lecturers' attitude towards the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching university students. Two research questions were posed and one hypothesis was formulated to guide the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised all the 345 lecturers (academic staff) from the 7 Departments in the Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Proportionate stratified randomsampling and systematic sampling techniques were used to draw the sample of 172 lecturers (71 male and 101 female). A 29-item questionnaire instrument named “Teachers' Attitude Towards Integration of Information and Communication Technology (TATIICT) adapted from the study of Oladimeji, Adeyanju and Fakorede (2017) was used to generate the data. Three specialists in Measurement and Evaluation validated the instrument. Internal consistency reliability of the items of the instrument was ascertained using Cronbach alpha method and a value of 0.86 was obtained. Mean was used to answer the research questions while hypothesis was tested using t-test of independent samples at 0.05 level of significance. Result showed that university lecturers have positive attitude towards the integration of ICT in teaching university students. It was also revealed that there was a significant difference in the mean ratings of male and female university lecturers on their attitude towards the integration ICT in teaching university students in favour of male lecturers. It was recommended that government should ensure adequate provision of ICT facilities for proper integration of ICT in teaching university students by the lecturers.