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ABSTRACT

The study sought to investigate the prospects of cloud technology and student’s academic achievement in colleges of education in Imo State. Correlational survey design was adopted for the study in Imo State. The population of the study comprised of all Management staff, Lecturer and Student in Imo State. Non proportionate stratified sampling technique was used to select 10 Management, 60 Lecturer, 200 Student from the study area and these gave the sample size of 270 respondents. The Main Instrument used in this study was a questionnaire titled “Prospects of Cloud Technology and Students Academic Achievement in Colleges of Education Questionnaire’’ (PCTSAACEQ)”. Face and content validation of the instrument was carried out by expert in test, measurement and evaluation from Imo State University to ensure that the instrument has the accuracy of study under consideration. Cronbach Alpha technique was used to determine the reliability of the instrument. The reliability coefficient obtained was 0.86 and this was high enough to justify the use of the instrument. The researcher subjected the data generated for this study to appropriate statistical techniques such as percentage analysis and simple regression. The test for significance was done at 0.05 alpha levels. The study concluded that the cloud technology is a set of active network services, providing scalability, quality of service, an inexpensive computing infrastructure which can be accessed in a simple and pervasive way. One of the recommendations made was that colleges should incorporate cloud computing technology in their everyday activity most especially the laboratory activities in order to help foster effective and comprehensive performance. KEYWORDS: Cloud Technology, functionalities of cloud technology, Academic Achievement, Colleges of Education and Imo State

Introduction

In recent years, cloud computing exposes a significant