Application of ICT/Cad in the Visual Art Education Lecture Hall

Abstract

Evidence of research findings overt the numerous gains derived from technology enhanced teaching and learning in higher education. This paper accounts on a study of 18 lecturers from the Art Education Department of the University of Education Winneba Ghana and divulges panoptic variety among individual lecturers' educational, artistic and social values, attitudes and beliefs about the use of ICT/CAD in traditional face-to-face lecture room environment to enhance teaching and learning of the visual arts in the university education. This has resulted in various approaches to both their personal and professional use of technology. The paper searches a considerable number of issues viz. the dissension of technology and the visual arts education; whether lecturers believe the importance of technology enhanced teaching and learning as well as in practice as artists; the part technology plays currently in and out of the lecture room. The research proved that improvement on ICT/CAD enhanced teaching and learning should consider lecturers belief perception and values with regards to specific technology usage and the availability of the needed resources.