A model of ICT acceptance and use for teachers in higher education institutions

Understanding why people accept or reject new information or communication technology has been one of the most challenging issues in the study of ICT acceptance model. There are numerous conditions to be met before ICT innovations can be introduced, adopted and diffused through higher education ins...

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Main Authors: Oye, N. D., Iahad, N. A., Ab. Rabin, Zairah
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Published: International Journal of Computer Science and Communication Networks 2011
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description Understanding why people accept or reject new information or communication technology has been one of the most challenging issues in the study of ICT acceptance model. There are numerous conditions to be met before ICT innovations can be introduced, adopted and diffused through higher education institutions. The study considered the models TAM and UTAUT to understand the teacher’s behavioral intention on the acceptance and use of the technology. This study was conducted at the university of Jos Plateau state, Nigeria as a pilot study. One hundred questionnaires were administered and collected, containing 23 UTAUT survey questions and 9 demographic statements totaling 32 questions. The survey shows that, 57% were male and 43% were female. By using the pilot study questionnaire part of the demographic statements, we are able to answer the questions (a) Is ICT mandatory or Voluntary in your institution? (b) What are the greatest barriers to using ICT to you as an academician? Using SPSS version 15 we have the following results. Table1 shows that the majority of the full-time lecturers (89%) responded that ICT is mandatory. Question Q32 which talk about barriers to use of ICT, have the majority of the respondents (42%) which said that their problem is time; on the other hand (31%) said that the problem is training. Others respondents (4%) said that cost are their problem, another group (20%) said that they need compensation and the final group (3%) said that, it does not fit their programme. Performance expectancy had a mean response of 4.32 and standard deviation of .665. The constructs was significantly correlated with BI at the 0.05 level (2tailed). This implies that the university ICT make task more easily accomplished, thereby making them more productive. Hence result from the survey shows that 86.5% agree. Therefore this determines the level of expected adoption of ICT by the respondents. Among the four UTAUT constructs, performance expectancy exerted the strongest effect. Therefore Performance expectancy is the most influential factor for the acceptance and use of ICT by the respondents. Recommendations made were that, all employed teachers in Federal, State and Private universities should undertake mandatory training and retraining on ICT programmes.
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spelling utm.eprints-378302017-10-25T04:41:43Z http://eprints.utm.my/37830/ A model of ICT acceptance and use for teachers in higher education institutions Oye, N. D. Iahad, N. A. Ab. Rabin, Zairah QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Understanding why people accept or reject new information or communication technology has been one of the most challenging issues in the study of ICT acceptance model. There are numerous conditions to be met before ICT innovations can be introduced, adopted and diffused through higher education institutions. The study considered the models TAM and UTAUT to understand the teacher’s behavioral intention on the acceptance and use of the technology. This study was conducted at the university of Jos Plateau state, Nigeria as a pilot study. One hundred questionnaires were administered and collected, containing 23 UTAUT survey questions and 9 demographic statements totaling 32 questions. The survey shows that, 57% were male and 43% were female. By using the pilot study questionnaire part of the demographic statements, we are able to answer the questions (a) Is ICT mandatory or Voluntary in your institution? (b) What are the greatest barriers to using ICT to you as an academician? Using SPSS version 15 we have the following results. Table1 shows that the majority of the full-time lecturers (89%) responded that ICT is mandatory. Question Q32 which talk about barriers to use of ICT, have the majority of the respondents (42%) which said that their problem is time; on the other hand (31%) said that the problem is training. Others respondents (4%) said that cost are their problem, another group (20%) said that they need compensation and the final group (3%) said that, it does not fit their programme. Performance expectancy had a mean response of 4.32 and standard deviation of .665. The constructs was significantly correlated with BI at the 0.05 level (2tailed). This implies that the university ICT make task more easily accomplished, thereby making them more productive. Hence result from the survey shows that 86.5% agree. Therefore this determines the level of expected adoption of ICT by the respondents. Among the four UTAUT constructs, performance expectancy exerted the strongest effect. Therefore Performance expectancy is the most influential factor for the acceptance and use of ICT by the respondents. Recommendations made were that, all employed teachers in Federal, State and Private universities should undertake mandatory training and retraining on ICT programmes. International Journal of Computer Science and Communication Networks 2011-09 Article PeerReviewed text/html en http://eprints.utm.my/37830/3/ijcscn2011010105.pdf Oye, N. D. and Iahad, N. A. and Ab. Rabin, Zairah (2011) A model of ICT acceptance and use for teachers in higher education institutions. International Journal of Computer Science & Communication Networks, 1 (1). pp. 22-40. ISSN 22495789
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