Digital Skills and Tertiary Education in Nigeria, Addressing the Generational Gap Between the Genx and GenZ

Digital skills have come to be indispensable in the creation and dissemination of knowledge and educational materials in our contemporary world. The global community, moving at a very fast pace, has advanced digitally in all spheres of life, and academics is not an exception. Consequently, experienced academicians who are lagging behind in digital literacy face serious difficulty contributing meaningfully to the academic community in this era. This obvious generational gap between our very senior academicians who lack digital skills and this generation of students, many of whom are tech-savvy constitute a challenge to the knowledge industry. It is on account of this that we seek to examine ways of bridging this generational gap, such that the wealth of experience of our very senior academicians could still be of benefits to the academic community. This study therefore focuses on the imperativeness of digital skills to contemporary education in Nigeria with a view to explaining the challenges and finding solutions to the problems. The documentary method of data collection and content analytical method was used for the study. This study recommends practical ways of improving acquisition of digital skills by a larger number of educators in Nigeria.