Challenges of new technologies for teaching and learning

Classroom delivery in the higher education sector is changing with the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Greater information access, real time communication, cooperation and collaboration, cost-effectiveness and pedagogical enhancement have led to adoption and incorporation of ICTs in classrooms of higher learning. Technological circumstances and socio-economic issues have been a barrier to permeation of ICTs in the echelons of higher learning. This paper discusses the challenges of implementing the new technologies in Universities and sharing the approaches to addressing each challenge.