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USE OF COMMERCIAL COMPUTER SOFTWARE IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO STATISTICAL SOFTWARE

It is now over 3 decades since computers are being used in improving teaching standards in higher education institutions. During this period a large number of packages either in commercial or public sectors have been developed to facilitate the learning process. In general, because of the complex nature of learning and the way human beings learn, only a limited number of developed software have really been useful. In parallel a number of commercial packages have also been developed to perform the basic statistical calculations. These packages have been used in tutorial sessions, in preparation of projects and by the researchers in higher education institutions. In this paper the authors will illustrate how these packages can be used in teaching some theoretical concepts of statistic effectively and efficiently.