Investigating Critical Factors Affecting the Adoption of Technology for Overall Development of HEI

Abstract

Information Technology is the combination of two words - “Information” and “Technology”. The above term is very easy to pronounce but having deep inside to elaborate and involutes about the insights of the given term is very vast and include an ocean of “information” when synthesizing with the “technology”. This is the reason that the people nowadays have named this ERA or generation as “The Era of Information Technology”. The Higher Education Institutes are not unaware of the requirement and importance of IT in the working area with respect to both the faculty and the students. As a result maximum amount of the money is being invested by these HEI's on the IT and the other allied resources to digitalize the entire routine working of the institute, from a small task to the bigger volumes of transactions, irrespective of its nature. The present paper basically focuses on the identification of crucial factors that led HEIs to adopt the technology. Further, the study has been carry forwarded to identify the significant difference between technology adoption factors and gender as demographic variables. To conduct the study online questionnaire was designed and 70 useful responses analysis was done. The analysis of the responses was done on IBM SPSS software using Exploratory Factor Analysis and Independent T-test. The study identified 5 factors that influence HEIs to adopt the technology. Furthermore, it is also revealed from the study that there is no significant difference between technology adoption factors and gender.