Department of Information Technology Education
Academic Programmes
The following academic programmes are currently being ran by the Department:
Regular Programme
B.Sc. (Information Technology Education)
Evening Programme
B.Sc. (Information Technology)
Staffing
The Department has seven full time lecturers and six part time lecturers. Three Lecturers are on study leave.
Developments
The first batch of students of the four year B.Sc. Information Technology would be due for graduation in 2014
The Department initiated collaboration with University of Lincoln in UK for an exchange programme. One member of staff from UEW has obtained a scholarship to pursue a PhD Programme at the University of Lincoln in UK. Three lecturers from Lincoln University (UK) visited the Department as part of the collaboration in May 2013
Through student projects, the Department has developed a couple of software to address some perennial difficulties within the University community. The following software have been developed:
Key Management System (for effective checks on owners of specific rooms at the halls to reduce impersonation and theft)
Student Time-Table Scheduling system (A system that generates students time table for examination and seating arrangement in any way the user deems fit)
Database system for the stores(Keep record of all items and manage out flows and inflows),
Alumni Traceability Policy (keeping links with all of our old students in order to keep in touch with them after school)
Campus Network Traffic Analyzer (keeps track of the flow of the campus network bandwidth and informs the network administrator to take the necessary actions required) etc.
A Departmental Research Committee made up of two to three in a group was set up to research into various topics. Some of these topics are:
Access and use of Educational Technology (ICT) in underserved S.H.S in Ghana
Application of Facebook in teaching and learning in tertiary Institutions
Risk exposure and ICT infrastructure: An empirical Analysis of emerging markets in Kumasi
Projections
Introduction of M.Sc. and M.Phil Information Technology Education & Management
Recruiting more academic staff with PhD