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The need for Information and communication technology (ICT) in our daily activities, whether voca... more The need for Information and communication technology (ICT) in our daily activities, whether vocational, social, or personal, cannot be over emphasized. Specifically in Educational Institutions, it is known to be a veritable tool for effective teaching and learning. Nevertheless, it is worth knowing that some individuals or organizations still find it difficult to accept the use of this technology while some others do not see the need to move along with the developmental changes in the world of ICT. Others are carried away with the phobia of the negative effect this technology tends to bring. In this study a comparative analysis of the level of ICT acceptance between the male and female genders was carried using Auchi Polytechnic (Educational institution) as a pilot survey stratum with the aim of determining the level of acceptance and use of ICT amongst the male and female gender. Data was collected using questionnaire on 300 respondents who are mainly teaching staff of Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, and Chi-square at 5%level of significant was also employed to analyse the data. The basis for the evaluation of data were on (i) the population of gender, (ii) level of awareness of gender and (iii) ICT research involved by gender. Findings revealed that level of ICT awareness is high amongst the male and female gender.However, its use in teaching and learning, and research is relatively low among bothgenders especially with the female gender. Recommendations made were towards enhancing gender acceptance in educational institutions, policy enforcement of the use of ICT tools for teaching and learning, and provision of modern ICT teaching aids and continued training on the ICT aided teaching and learning.

Keywords: Educational institution, Gender, Comparative analysis, ICT,Pilot survey and stratum.

Bringing education to the nomadic, road transport workers, street artisans, farmers in rural area... more Bringing education to the nomadic, road transport workers, street artisans, farmers in rural areas, and fishermen in coastal areas whose lifestyle have been so much conditioned by their social and cultural backgrounds has been one major challenge in Nigeria Education sector. For example, it is some cultural belief in Nigeria that men should marry many wives with the sole aim of having many male children that can be useful in farm works. This research paper reveals some ICT innovative concepts for reaching out to some categories of educationally less privileged in our society, keeping in mind the social and cultural background. The focus here is on bike riders, motor mechanics, and farmers in the rural areas of Etsako community of Edo state in Nigeria. The aim is to break through the socio-cultural barriers and bring education to the people in such a way as to enhance their productivity with a refinement on the existing skills, and development of new skills.
Keywords: Skill refinement, Skill development, Socio-cultural barriers, ICT, Productivity.

In problem solving, there is a search for the appropriate solution. A state space is a problem do... more In problem solving, there is a search for the appropriate solution. A state space is a problem domain consisting of the start state, the goal state and the operations that will necessitate the various moves from the start state to the goal state. Each move operation takes one away from the start state and closer to the goal state. In this work we have attempted implementing this concept in adversarial problem solving, which is a more complex problem space. We noted that real world adversarial problems vary in their types and complexities, and therefore solving an adversarial problem would depend on the nature of the adversarial problem itself. Specifically, we examined a real world case, "the prisoner's dilemma" which is a critical, mutually independent, decision making adversarial problem. We combined the idea of the Thagard's Theory of Explanatory Coherence (TEC) with Bayes' theorem of conditional probability to construct the model of an opponent that includes the opponent's model of the agent. A further conversion of the model into a series of state space structures led us into the use of breadth-first search strategy to arrive at our decision goal.

In problem solving, there is a search for the appropriate solution. A state space is a problem do... more In problem solving, there is a search for the appropriate solution. A state space is a problem domain consisting of the start state, the goal state and the operations that will necessitate the various moves from the start state to the goal state. Each move operation takes one away from the start state and closer to the goal state. In this work we have attempted implementing this concept in adversarial problem solving, which is a more complex problem space. We noted that real world adversarial problems vary in their types and complexities, and therefore solving an adversarial problem would depend on the nature of the adversarial problem itself. Specifically, we examined a real world case, "the prisoner's dilemma" which is a critical, mutually independent, decision making adversarial problem. We combined the idea of the Thagard's Theory of Explanatory Coherence (TEC) with Bayes' theorem of conditional probability to construct the model of an opponent that includes the opponent's model of the agent. A further conversion of the model into a series of state space structures led us into the use of breadth-first search strategy to arrive at our decision goal.

The need for Information and communication technology (ICT) in our daily activities, whether voca... more The need for Information and communication technology (ICT) in our daily activities, whether vocational, social, or personal, cannot be over emphasized. Specifically in Educational Institutions, it is known to be a veritable tool for effective teaching and learning. Nevertheless, it is worth knowing that some individuals or organizations still find it difficult to accept the use of this technology while some others do not see the need to move along with the developmental changes in the world of ICT. Others are carried away with the phobia of the negative effect this technology tends to bring. In this study a comparative analysis of the level of ICT acceptance between the male and female genders was carried using Auchi Polytechnic (Educational institution) as a pilot survey stratum with the aim of determining the level of acceptance and use of ICT amongst the male and female gender. Data was collected using questionnaire on 300 respondents who are mainly teaching staff of Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, and Chi-square at 5%level of significant was also employed to analyse the data. The basis for the evaluation of data were on (i) the population of gender, (ii) level of awareness of gender and (iii) ICT research involved by gender. Findings revealed that level of ICT awareness is high amongst the male and female gender.However, its use in teaching and learning, and research is relatively low among bothgenders especially with the female gender. Recommendations made were towards enhancing gender acceptance in educational institutions, policy enforcement of the use of ICT tools for teaching and learning, and provision of modern ICT teaching aids and continued training on the ICT aided teaching and learning.

Keywords: Educational institution, Gender, Comparative analysis, ICT,Pilot survey and stratum.

Bringing education to the nomadic, road transport workers, street artisans, farmers in rural area... more Bringing education to the nomadic, road transport workers, street artisans, farmers in rural areas, and fishermen in coastal areas whose lifestyle have been so much conditioned by their social and cultural backgrounds has been one major challenge in Nigeria Education sector. For example, it is some cultural belief in Nigeria that men should marry many wives with the sole aim of having many male children that can be useful in farm works. This research paper reveals some ICT innovative concepts for reaching out to some categories of educationally less privileged in our society, keeping in mind the social and cultural background. The focus here is on bike riders, motor mechanics, and farmers in the rural areas of Etsako community of Edo state in Nigeria. The aim is to break through the socio-cultural barriers and bring education to the people in such a way as to enhance their productivity with a refinement on the existing skills, and development of new skills.
Keywords: Skill refinement, Skill development, Socio-cultural barriers, ICT, Productivity.

In problem solving, there is a search for the appropriate solution. A state space is a problem do... more In problem solving, there is a search for the appropriate solution. A state space is a problem domain consisting of the start state, the goal state and the operations that will necessitate the various moves from the start state to the goal state. Each move operation takes one away from the start state and closer to the goal state. In this work we have attempted implementing this concept in adversarial problem solving, which is a more complex problem space. We noted that real world adversarial problems vary in their types and complexities, and therefore solving an adversarial problem would depend on the nature of the adversarial problem itself. Specifically, we examined a real world case, "the prisoner's dilemma" which is a critical, mutually independent, decision making adversarial problem. We combined the idea of the Thagard's Theory of Explanatory Coherence (TEC) with Bayes' theorem of conditional probability to construct the model of an opponent that includes the opponent's model of the agent. A further conversion of the model into a series of state space structures led us into the use of breadth-first search strategy to arrive at our decision goal.

In problem solving, there is a search for the appropriate solution. A state space is a problem do... more In problem solving, there is a search for the appropriate solution. A state space is a problem domain consisting of the start state, the goal state and the operations that will necessitate the various moves from the start state to the goal state. Each move operation takes one away from the start state and closer to the goal state. In this work we have attempted implementing this concept in adversarial problem solving, which is a more complex problem space. We noted that real world adversarial problems vary in their types and complexities, and therefore solving an adversarial problem would depend on the nature of the adversarial problem itself. Specifically, we examined a real world case, "the prisoner's dilemma" which is a critical, mutually independent, decision making adversarial problem. We combined the idea of the Thagard's Theory of Explanatory Coherence (TEC) with Bayes' theorem of conditional probability to construct the model of an opponent that includes the opponent's model of the agent. A further conversion of the model into a series of state space structures led us into the use of breadth-first search strategy to arrive at our decision goal.