An investigation of rural college teachers’ and students’ attitude towards integration of ict in education: A comparative study

Abstract

ICT - enabled teaching and learning has become one of the important modes of teaching and learning, adopted by majority of educational institutions, all over the world. This study was conducted to examine the rural teacher’ and students’ attitude towards ICT in higher education. Questionnaire method was adopted for this study, with two different sets of questionnaires, to assess their attitudes towards ICT in education. The teachers’ questionnaire contained questions related to teachers’ demographic information, attitude, uses of ICT in teaching and ICT in teacher professional development. Similarly, students’ questionnaire consisted of questions related to students’ demographic information, attitude, and uses of ICT in learning. The study revealed that rural college teachers’ attitude towards ICT in education was positive and higher than the rural colleges’ students’ attitude towards ICT in education.